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My passions are material science research, education and art. My research group's work focusses on the development and understanding of functional optoelectronic thin film materials: hybrid halide perovskites, transparent conducting oxides (TCOs) and p-type transparent conducting materials. We explore and develop physical vapour deposition (PVD) techniques to achieve thin film growth control, tune optoelectronic material properties and even discover new materials. Our optoelectronic thin film materials find application in energy conversion and/or efficient devices like solar cells, light emitting diodes, photonics andĀ transparent electronics.
Before coming to UTwente, I have beenĀ team leader for the transparent electrodes development at theĀ Photovoltaics and Thin-Film Electronics Laboratory (PVLab) of the Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne (EPFL), Switzerland. I obtained my Ph.D. in Physics from Leiden University, The Netherlands in 2012, working on resistive switching memories.
Expertise Material Science Solar Cell Oxide Pulsed Laser Deposition Electrode Film Temperature Devices Chemistry Organisations More information about our research in the link:
https://www.utwente.nl/en/tnw/ims/research/research-morales/
Publications Jump to: 2026 | 2025 | 2024
Lead-free perovskites and derivatives for photogeneration: a roadmap to sustainable approaches for photovoltaics and photo(electro)catalysis (2026) Journal of Physics: Energy, 8 (1). Article 011501. Poli, I., Gatti, T., Li, Y., Agresti, A., Castriotta, L. A., De Rossi, F., Shukla, S., Aernouts, T., Eslava, S., Malavasi, L., Mosconi, E., van Embden, J., Kalita, D., Della Gaspera, E., Grandhi, G. K., Mokurala, K., Vivo, P., Noel, N. K., Patel, J. B., ā¦ Vidal, R.https://doi.org/10.1088/2515-7655/ae2540 Laboratory-Scale Reuse of Glass/ITO Substrates for Single Junction Perovskite Solar Cells (2025) ACS sustainable chemistry & engineering, 13 (48), 20787-20798. Kralj, S., Lazarov, I., Woods-Robinson, R. & Morales-Masis, M. https://doi.org/10.1021/acssuschemeng.5c09075 Oriented 2D Ruddlesden-Popper metal halides by pulsed laser deposition (2025) npj 2D Materials and Applications, 9 (1). Article 50. Solomon, J. S., Mrkyvkova, N., Kliner, V., Soto-Montero, T., Fernandez-Guillen, I., Ledinský, M., Boix, P. P., Siffalovic, P. & Morales-Masis, M. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41699-025-00571-3 Epitaxial metal halide perovskites by pulsed laser deposition (2025) [Thesis › PhD Thesis - Research UT, graduation UT]. University of Twente. Solomon, J. S. https://doi.org/10.3990/1.9789036567602 Engineering a Sputtered PbIā:CsBr Scaffold for Wide-Bandgap Perovskite Solar Cells (2025) [Contribution to conference › Poster] MESA+ meeting 2025 . Jiménez Martínez, D. M. & Morales Masis, M. High Deposition Rates of Metal Halide Perovskites: Encountered limitations with higher frequencies (2025) [Contribution to conference › Poster] MESA+ meeting 2025 . Arriaga Dávila, J. & Morales Masis, M. Temperature-Resilient Monolithic Perovskite/Silicon Tandems Enabling Crystalline Front TCO Integration (2025) ACS Applied Energy Materials, 8 (18), 13722-13731. Said, A. A., Mardegan, L., Ugur, E., Song, Z., Dally, P., Yildirim, B., Utomo, D. S., Razzaq, A., Turkay, D., Wolff, C. M., Morales-Masis, M. , Yan, Y., Bolink, H. J., Aydin, E. & De Wolf, S.https://doi.org/10.1021/acsaem.5c02044 Charge Transport and Defects in Sulfur-Deficient Chalcogenide Perovskite BaZr S 3 (2025) PRX Energy, 4 (3). Article 033001. Aggarwal, G., Mirza, A. S., Riva, S., Comparotto, C., Frost, R. J. W., Mukherjee, S., Morales-Masis, M. , Rensmo, H. & Scragg, J. S.https://doi.org/10.1103/t7ns-99dk Comparative life cycle assessment of lead-free halide perovskite composites/polymer for piezoelectric energy harvesting (2025) Sustainable Energy & Fuels, 9 (16), 4375-4391 (E-pub ahead of print/First online). Franco, I. P., Morales Masis, M. , Mora-Seró, I. & Vidal, R.https://doi.org/10.1039/d5se00717h Template-Assisted Growth of Csx FA1-x PbI3 with Pulsed Laser Deposition for Single Junction Perovskite Solar Cells (2025) Advanced energy materials, 15 (24). Article 2406033. Kralj, S., Artuk, K., Wieczorek, A., Orlov, N., Eftekhari, Z., Saive, R., Garnett, E., Siol, S., Wolff, C. M. & Morales-Masis, M. https://doi.org/10.1002/aenm.202406033 Room-temperature epitaxy of Ī±-CH3NH3PbI3 halide perovskite by pulsed laser deposition (2025) Nature Synthesis, 4 (4), 432-443. Solomon, J. S., Soto-Montero, T., Birkhölzer, Y. A., Cunha, D. M., Soltanpoor, W., Ledinský, M., Orlov, N., Garnett, E. C., Forero-Correa, N., Reyes-Lillo, S. E., Haward, T. B., Lilly, J. R. S., Herz, L. M., Koster, G., Rijnders, G., Leppert, L. & Morales-Masis, M. https://doi.org/10.1038/s44160-024-00717-z Pulsed Laser Deposition of Halide Perovskites with over 10-Fold Enhanced Deposition Rates (2025) The journal of physical chemistry letters, 16 (6), 1453-1460. Kliner, V., Soto-Montero, T., Nespoli, J., Savenije, T. J., Ledinský, M. & Morales-Masis, M. https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.jpclett.5c00047 Cu-based transparent conductive materials with enhanced conductivity (2025) [Thesis › PhD Thesis - Research UT, graduation UT]. University of Twente. Mirza, A. S. https://doi.org/10.3990/1.9789036563772 Comparative life cycle assessment of piezoelectric energy harvesting devices based on lead-free halide perovskite materials (Figures open data) (2025) [Dataset Types › Dataset]. Zenodo. Franco, I. P., Mora-Seró, I., Vidal, R. & Morales-Masis, M. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.14756480 Titanium Dioxide: A Versatile Earth-Abundant Optical Material for Photovoltaics (2024) Advanced Optical Materials, 12 (36). Article 2401423. Marcelis, E. J., ten Elshof, J. E. & Morales-Masis, M. https://doi.org/10.1002/adom.202401423 Single-source pulsed laser-deposited perovskite solar cells with enhanced performance via bulk and 2D passivation (2024) Joule, 8 (12), 3412-3425. Soto-Montero, T., Kralj, S., Azmi, R., Reus, M. A., Solomon, J. S., Cunha, D. M., Soltanpoor, W., Utomo, D. S., Ugur, E., Vishal, B., Ledinsky, M., Müller-Buschbaum, P., Babbe, F., Lee, D. K., Sutter-Fella, C. M., Aydin, E., De Wolf, S. & Morales-Masis, M. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.joule.2024.09.001 Improved Crystallinity and Efficiency in Perovskite Solar Cells through Layered Hybrid Deposition (2024) ACS Energy Letters, 10 (1), 30-33. Ullah, A., Vishal, B., Razzaq, A., Said, A. A., Kralj, S., Morales-Masis, M. & De Wolf, S.https://doi.org/10.1021/acsenergylett.4c02797 Single-Source Vapor-Deposition of MA1āx FAx PbI3 Perovskite Absorbers for Solar Cells (2024) Advanced functional materials, 34 (50). Article 2300588. Soto-Montero, T., Kralj, S., Soltanpoor, W., Solomon, J. S., Gómez, J. S., Zanoni, K. P. S., Paliwal, A., Bolink, H. J., Baeumer, C., Kentgens, A. P. M. & Morales-Masis, M. https://doi.org/10.1002/adfm.202300588 Growth and stabilization of cubic FAPbI3 : On the interaction between phosphonic acids and co-evaporated perovskites (2024) Matter, 7 (10), 3238-3240. Kralj, S. & Morales-Masis, M. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.matt.2024.09.007 2D/3D Epitaxial Halide Perovskites by Pulsed Laser Deposition (2024) [Contribution to conference › Poster] MESA+ Meeting 2024 . Solomon Sathiaraj, J. S. S., Soto Montero, T., Birkholzer, Y. A., M. Cunha, D., Soltanpoor, W., Kliner, V., Ledinský, M., Orlov, N., Garnett, E. C., Haward, T. B., Lilly, J. R. A., Herz, L. M., Koster, G., Rijnders, A. J. H. M., Leppert, L. & Morales Masis, M. Research profiles Courses academic year 2025/2026 Courses in the current academic year are added at the moment they are finalised in the Osiris system. Therefore it is possible that the list is not yet complete for the whole academic year.
Courses academic year 2024/2025 
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