Overview Research Education Media Contact
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 Electrode Temperature Devices Pulsed Laser Deposition Thin Films Chemistry Organisations More information about our research in the link:
https://www.utwente.nl/en/tnw/ims/research/research-morales/
Publications Jump to: 2024 | 2023 | 2022
Single-source pulsed laser-deposited perovskite solar cells with enhanced performance via bulk and 2D passivation (2024) Joule (E-pub ahead of print/First online). 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 Impact of the valence band energy alignment at the hole-collecting interface on the photostability of wide band-gap perovskite solar cells (2024) Joule, 8 (9), 2585-2606. Torres Merino, L. V., Petoukhoff, C. E., Matiash, O., Subbiah, A. S., Franco, C. V., Dally, P., Vishal, B., Kosar, S., Rosas Villalva, D., Hnapovskyi, V., Ugur, E., Shah, S., Peña Camargo, F., Karalis, O., Hempel, H., Levine, I., Pradhan, R. R., Kralj, S., Kalasariya, N., ā¦ De Wolf, S.https://doi.org/10.1016/j.joule.2024.06.017 Laser Deposition of Metal Halide Perovskites (2024) ACS Energy Letters, 9 (8), 4199-4208. Soto-Montero, T. & Morales-Masis, M. https://doi.org/10.1021/acsenergylett.4c01466 Cs-Doped and Cs-S Co-Doped CuI p-Type Transparent Semiconductors with Enhanced Conductivity (2024) Advanced functional materials, 34 (30). Article 2316144. Mirza, A. S., Vishal, B., Dally, P., Schnohr, C. S., De Wolf, S. & Morales-Masis, M. https://doi.org/10.1002/adfm.202316144 Quantifying Organic Cation Ratios in Metal Halide Perovskites: Insights from X-ray Photoelectron Spectroscopy and Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy (2024) Chemistry of materials, 36 (14), 6912-6924. Soto-Montero, T., Kralj, S., Gómez, J. S., Wolffs, J. W., Rodkey, N., Kentgens, A. P. M. & Morales-Masis, M. https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.chemmater.4c00935 Single-source pulsed laser deposition of hybrid halide perovskites for solar cells (2024) [Thesis › PhD Thesis - Research UT, graduation UT]. University of Twente. Soto Montero, T. d. S. https://doi.org/10.3990/1.9789036560023 Exploring the Dynamics of Formation of Pulsed Laser Deposited Halide Perovskite Through In-situ Photoluminescence at High Deposition Rates (2024) [Working paper › Preprint] (In preparation). Soto Montero, T. D. S. & Morales Masis, M. Impact of the TCO Microstructure on the Electronic Properties of Carbazole-Based Self-Assembled Monolayers (2024) ACS Materials Letters, 6 (2), 366-374. Kralj, S., Dally, P., Bampoulis, P., Vishal, B., De Wolf, S. & Morales-Masis, M. https://doi.org/10.1021/acsmaterialslett.3c01166 Single-Source Pulsed Laser Deposited Perovskite Solar Cells with > 19% Efficiency (2024) [Working paper › Preprint]. Soto Montero, T. D. S., Solomon Sathiaraj, J. S. S., Kralj, S., M. Cunha, D., Morales Masis, M. & Soltanpoor, W. https://doi.org/10.21203/rs.3.rs-3671187/v1 Vapor phase deposition of perovskite photovoltaics: Short track to commercialization? (2024) Energy & environmental science, 17 (5), 1645-1663. Abzieher, T., Moore, D. T., Roß, M., Albrecht, S., Silvia, J., Tan, H., Jeangros, Q., Ballif, C., Hoerantner, M. T., Kim, B. S., Bolink, H. J., Pistor, P., Goldschmidt, J. C., Chiang, Y. H., Stranks, S. D., Borchert, J., McGehee, M. D., Morales-Masis, M. , Patel, J. B., ā¦ Paetzold, U. W.https://doi.org/10.1039/d3ee03273f The role of sulfur in sulfur-doped copper(I) iodide p-type transparent conductors (2023) Matter, 6 (12), 4306-4320. Mirza, A. S., Pols, M., Soltanpoor, W., Tao, S., Brocks, G. & Morales-Masis, M. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.matt.2023.10.003 Low Damage Scalable Pulsed Laser Deposition of SnO2 for pāiān Perovskite Solar Cells (2023) Solar energy, 7 (23). Article 2300616. Soltanpoor, W., Bracesco, A. E. A., Rodkey, N., Creatore, M. & Morales-Masis, M. https://doi.org/10.1002/solr.202300616 Chalcohalide Antiperovskite Thin Films with Visible Light Absorption and High Charge-Carrier Mobility Processed by Solvent-Free and Low-Temperature Methods (2023) Chemistry of materials, 35 (16), 6482-6490. Sebastiá-Luna, P., Rodkey, N., Mirza, A. S., Mertens, S., Lal, S., Gaona Carranza, A. M., Calbo, J., Righetto, M., Sessolo, M., Herz, L. M., Vandewal, K., Ortí, E., Morales-Masis, M. , Bolink, H. J. & Palazon, F.https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.chemmater.3c01349 Tin(IV) Oxide Electron Transport Layer via Industrial-Scale Pulsed Laser Deposition for Planar Perovskite Solar Cells (2023) ACS applied materials & interfaces, 15 (27), 32621-32628. Zanoni, K. P. S., Pérez-Del-Rey, D., Dreessen, C., Rodkey, N., Sessolo, M., Soltanpoor, W., Morales-Masis, M. & Bolink, H. J.https://doi.org/10.1021/acsami.3c04387 Effects of material parameters on the nonlinear refraction of Transparent Conducting Oxides in the Epsilon-Near-Zero spectral region (2023) [Thesis › PhD Thesis - Research UT, graduation UT]. University of Twente. Ghobadi, H. https://doi.org/10.3990/1.9789036556057 Single-Source Vapor-Deposition of MA1āx FAx PbI3 Perovskite Absorbers for Solar Cells (2023) Advanced functional materials . Article 2300588 (E-pub ahead of print/First online). 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 Understanding the conditions for the optimum nonlinear refraction of epsilon-near-zero films based on transparent conducting oxides (2023) Optics express, 31 (5), 8775-8784. Ghobadi, H., Offerhaus, H. L., Alvarez-Chavez, J. A., Morales-Masis, M. & De leon, I.https://doi.org/10.1364/OE.482144 Correlated Metals Transparent Conductors with High UV to Visible Transparency on Amorphous Substrates (2023) Advanced materials interfaces, 10 (1). Article 2201335. 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.https://doi.org/10.1002/admi.202201335 Broadband Nonlinear Optical Response of IndiumāZirconium Oxide in the EpsilonāNearāZero Region (2022) Advanced Optical Materials, 10 (24). Article 2201748. Ghobadi, H., Smirnov, Y., Korterik, J. P., Alvarez‐Chavez, J. A., Offerhaus, H. L., Morales‐Masis, M. & De Leon, I.https://doi.org/10.1002/adom.202201748 Three-dimensional in situ imaging of single-grain growth in polycrystalline In2 O3 :Zr films (2022) Communications Materials, 3 (1). Article 38. 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.https://doi.org/10.1038/s43246-022-00260-4 Research profiles Courses academic year 2024/2025 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 2023/2024 
Scan the QR code or