Almantas Pivrikas - short CV and contact data
Application of Charge Extraction by Linearly Increasing Voltage (CELIV) technique to study charge transport and recombination in organic optoelectronic devices.
I have 44 papers published with 826 total citations, my h-index is 14, and i10-index is 20. List of my publications is available for download.
My postal address
Dr. Almantas Pivrikas
School of Chemistry and Molecular Biosciences (SCMB)
Centre for Organic Photonics and Electronics (COPE)
The University of Queensland
Chemistry Building 68, Level 9
St. Lucia Queensland
4072 Brisbane
Australia
My present affiliation
School of Chemistry and Molecular Biosciences, Centre For Organic Photonics and Electronics (COPE), The University of Queensland, Brisbane 4072, Australia
My contact data
E-mail: Almantas.PivrikasREMOVETHISCAPITALTEXT-ITISFORSPAMPROTECTION@gmail.com
Skype username:"pivrikas"
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Website: http://www.imakescience.com/almantas_pivrikas
Office phone: +61 7 334 53778
Fax: 07 3346 9273
Cell phone: +61 466 965 314
Education and employment
- Bachelor degree in physics department at Vilnius University, Lithuania.
- Master’s degree in Condensed Matter Physics and Solid State Electronics Department, headed by Prof. Gytis Juska, Vilnius University, Lithuania.
- PhD degree in physics, group of Prof. Ronald Österbacka, Abo Akademi University, Abo/Turku, Finland.
- Assistant professor position, heading photovoltaic research, group of Prof. Niyazi Serdar Sariciftci, Physical Chemistry Department and Linz Institute for Organic Solar Cells (LIOS), Johannes Kepler University, Linz, Austria.
- Senior researcher at Centre for Organic Photonics and Electronics (COPE), School of Chemistry and Molecular Biosciences (SCMB), The University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia.
Main research interests
- Organic electronic devices: organic photovoltaic devices (OPV), organic field effect transistors (OFETs), memory elements, light emitting diodes (OLEDs).
- Device performance characterization and understanding of photophysical processes.
- Charge carrier transport and recombination in organic semiconductors: various polymers (rrP3HT, PPV, PBTTT, etc.), organic molecules (fullerene C60, PCBM, etc.).
- Application of Charge Carrier Extraction by Linearly Increasing Voltage (CELIV) technique for semiconductor and device characterization.
Methods and techniques mastered
- Charge Extraction by Linearly Increasing Voltage (CELIV) - charge carrier mobility and lifetime measurements.
- Time-of-Flight (TOF) - charge carrier mobility measurements.
- Current-voltage (I-V) characterization.
- Photovoltage decay - charge carrier lifetime measurements.
- Incident-Photon-to-electron Conversion Efficiency (IPCE) for solar cells.
- External Quantum Efficiency (EQE), Internal Quantum Efficiency (IQE).
- Electroluminescence efficiency and spectra of light emitting diodes and transistors.
- Light absorption spectra and Beer-Lambert coefficient.
- Time and spectrally resolved photoluminescence and Photo-Induced Absorption (PIA).
- Atomic Force Microscopy for film sourface roughness and nanomorphology.
- Film deposition methods: solution processing and physical vapour deposition (Hot Wall Epitaxy (HWE), vacuum sublimation).
- Theoretical modelling of observed results and fitting of experimental data.
Grants and fellowships
- PhD fellowship - Centre for International Mobility (CIMO), Graduate School of Materials Research (GSMR), Finland
- Personal grants for conference participations: Magnus Ehrnrooth Foundation, Finland; Fortum foundation (earlier Neste), Finland; Amt d. OÖ Landesregierung Linz and Rathaus Linz
- Scientific contribution to various European and Austrian grants.
- DECRA 2012.
- UQ ECR 2012.
- UQ Startup grant 2012.
If you have any questions regarding CELIV or other measurement methods, please do not hesitate to contact me.
