prof. M. Morales Masis (Monica)

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 and transparent electronics.

Before coming to UTwente, I have been team leader for the transparent electrodes development at the 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.

Engineering & Materials Science

# Electrodes
# Indium
# Oxides
# Solar Cells
# Transparent Conducting Oxides
# Transparent Electrodes
# Zinc Oxide

Chemistry

# Solar Cell

Faculty of Science and Technology (TNW), Inorganic Materials Science (IMS)

More information about our research in the link:

https://www.utwente.nl/en/tnw/ims/research/research-morales/

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. (2023). Single-Source Vapor-Deposition of MA_1–xFA_xPbI₃ Perovskite Absorbers for Solar Cells. Advanced functional materials. https://doi.org/10.1002/adfm.202300588

Ghobadi, H. (2023). Effects of material parameters on the nonlinear refraction of Transparent Conducting Oxides in the Epsilon-Near-Zero spectral region. [PhD Thesis - Research UT, graduation UT, University of Twente]. University of Twente. https://doi.org/10.3990/1.9789036556057

Ghobadi, H. , Offerhaus, H. L. , Alvarez-Chavez, J. A. , Morales-Masis, M., & De leon, I. (2023). Understanding the conditions for the optimum nonlinear refraction of epsilon-near-zero films based on transparent conducting oxides. Optics express, 31(5), 8775-8784. https://doi.org/10.1364/OE.482144

Le, P. T. P. , Ni, S., Repecaud, P. A., van der Minne, E. , van den Nieuwenhuijzen, K. J. H. , Nguyen, M. D. , ten Elshof, J. E. , Morales-Masis, M. , & Koster, G. (2023). Correlated Metals Transparent Conductors with High UV to Visible Transparency on Amorphous Substrates. Advanced materials interfaces, 10(1), [2201335]. https://doi.org/10.1002/admi.202201335

Ghobadi, H. , Smirnov, Y. , Korterik, J. P. , Alvarez-Chavez, J. A. , Offerhaus, H. L. , Morales-Masis, M., & De Leon, I. (2022). Optical Properties and Nonlinear Optical Response of Zirconium-doped Indium Oxide in the Epsilon-Near-Zero Region. In Nonlinear Photonics, NP 2022 [NpTu4F.6] (Optics InfoBase Conference Papers). Optica Publishing Group. https://doi.org/10.1364/NP.2022.NpTu4F.6

Zanoni, K. P. S., Paliwal, A., Hernández-Fenollosa, M. A., Repecaud, P. A. , Morales-Masis, M., & Bolink, H. J. (2022). ITO Top-Electrodes via Industrial-Scale PLD for Efficient Buffer-Layer-Free Semitransparent Perovskite Solar Cells. Advanced Materials Technologies, 7(10), [2101747]. https://doi.org/10.1002/admt.202101747

Kralj, S. , & Morales Masis, M. (2022). Solvent-Free Fabrication of Hybrid Halide Perovskites: From Mechanochemical Synthesis to Thin-Films. Poster session presented at MESA+ Meeting 2022, Enschede, Netherlands.

Soto Montero, T. D. S., Kralj, S. , Soltanpoor, W. , Solomon Sathiaraj, J. S. S. , Baeumer, C. , & Morales Masis, M. (2022). Single-Source Vapor-Deposited MA1-xFAxPbI3: From Mechanochemical Synthesis to Thin Films. Poster session presented at 2nd International tandemPV Workshop 2022, Freiburg, Germany.

Soto Montero, T. D. S., Kralj, S. , Soltanpoor, W. , Solomon Sathiaraj, J. S. S. , Baeumer, C. , & Morales Masis, M. (2022). Single-Source Vapor Deposition of Halide Perovskites Thin Films for Solar Cells. Poster session presented at Nano Electronic Materials (NEM) Cluster day 2022, Bad Boekelo, Netherlands.

Solomon Sathiaraj, J. S. S. , Birkhölzer, Y. A. , Soltanpoor, W., Soto Montero, T. D. S. , & Morales Masis, M. (2022). Epitaxy of Inorganic Halide Perovskites: Case of 𝐂sSnI3. Poster session presented at Symposium on Light Management in Photovoltaics, LMPV 2019, Amsterdam, Netherlands.

Kralj, S., Soto Montero, T. D. S. , Soltanpoor, W. , Solomon Sathiaraj, J. S. S. , Baeumer, C. , & Morales Masis, M. (2022). Solvent-Free Fabrication of Hybrid Halide Perovskites: From Mechanochemical Synthesis to Thin-Films. Poster session presented at KAUST Research Conference: Accelerating Solar Energy Research towards meeting Vision 2030 Goals, Thuwal, Saudi Arabia.

Solomon Sathiaraj, J. S. S. , Birkhölzer, Y. A., Soto Montero, T. D. S. , Soltanpoor, W. , & Morales Masis, M. (2022). Epitaxy of Inorganic Halide Perovskites by Pulsed Laser Deposition (PLD). Poster session presented at MRS Fall meeting 2022, Boston, United States.

Soltanpoor, W., Soukaras, C., Kralj, S. , & Morales Masis, M. (2022). Pulsed Laser Deposition of SnO2 for Enhanced Stability of p-i-n Perovskite Solar Cells. Poster session presented at MRS Fall meeting 2022, Boston, United States.

Ghobadi, H. , Smirnov, Y. , Korterik, J. P. , Alvarez‐chavez, J. A. , Offerhaus, H. L. , Morales‐masis, M., & De Leon, I. (2022). Broadband Nonlinear Optical Response of Indium–Zirconium Oxide in the Epsilon‐Near‐Zero Region. Advanced Optical Materials, 10(24), [2201748]. https://doi.org/10.1002/adom.202201748

Dzhigaev, D. , Smirnov, Y., Repecaud, P. A., Marçal, L. A. B., Fevola, G., Sheyfer, D., Jeangros, Q., Cha, W., Harder, R., Mikkelsen, A., Wallentin, J. , Morales-Masis, M., & Stuckelberger, M. E. (2022). Three-dimensional in situ imaging of single-grain growth in polycrystalline In₂O₃:Zr films. Communications Materials, 3(1), [38]. https://doi.org/10.1038/s43246-022-00260-4

Smirnov, Y. (2022). Pulsed Laser Deposition of Transparent Conducting Oxides for Efficient Photovoltaics. [PhD Thesis - Research UT, graduation UT, University of Twente]. University of Twente. https://doi.org/10.3990/1.9789036553841

Smirnov, Y., Repecaud, P. A., Tutsch, L., Florea, I., Zanoni, K. P. S., Paliwal, A., Bolink, H. J., Cabarrocas, P. R., Bivour, M. , & Morales-Masis, M. (2022). Wafer-scale pulsed laser deposition of ITO for solar cells: Reduced damage vs. interfacial resistance. Materials Advances, 3(8), 3469-3478. https://doi.org/10.1039/d1ma01225h

Ghobadi, H. , Smirnov, Y. , Offerhaus, H. L. , Alvarez-chavez, J. A. , Morales-Masis, M., & De Leon, I. (2022). Optical properties of highly-crystalline tin-doped indium oxide films in their near-zero permittivity spectral region. Optical materials express, 12(1), 96-108. https://doi.org/10.1364/OME.445652

Soto Montero, T. D. S. , Soltanpoor, W. , Birkhölzer, Y. A., Ledinský, M. , & Morales Masis, M. (2021). Single-Source Vacuum-Processing of Halide Perovskite Films for Solar Cells. Poster session presented at Tandem PV Workshop 2021, Berlin (Online), Germany.

Aydin, E., Altinkaya, C. , Smirnov, Y., Yaqin, M. A., Zanoni, K. P. S., Paliwal, A., Firdaus, Y., Allen, T. G., Anthopoulos, T. D., Bolink, H. J. , Morales Masis, M., & De Wolf, S. (2021). Sputtered transparent electrodes for optoelectronic devices: Induced damage and mitigation strategies. Matter, 4(11), 3549–3584. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.matt.2021.09.021

See all research output of this employee

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.