Projects per year
Personal profile
Biography
Udo Bach is a full professor at Monash University and the Monash Node Leader of the ARC Centre of Excellence in Exciton Science. He received his PhD from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (EPFL, Switzerland) working in the research group of Prof Michael Grätzel and worked for 3 years in a technology start-up company in Dublin (Ireland). Subsequently he spent 15 months as a postdoc in the group of Prof. Paul Alivisatos in UC Berkeley (USA) before moving to Monash University in November 2005 to establish his own research group.
Prof Bach has a strong background in the area of photovoltaics and nanofabrication. He is involved in fundamental and applied research in the area of perovskite and dye-sensitized solar cells. He has additional research activities in the area of nanofabrication, DNA-directed self-assembly, nanoprinting, plasmonics for sensing and combinatorial photovoltaic materials discovery.
Monash teaching commitment
- MTE 3545, MTE4597
Research interests
- Dye-sensitized Tandem Solar Cells
- Back-Contact Dye-Sensitized Solar Cells
- Novel Electrolytes for Dye-Sensitized Tandem Solar Cells
- New infrared sensitizers for dye-sensitized solar cells
- Size-selective separation of gold-nanoparticles
- Templated placement of individual nanoparticles onto surface nanopatterns through DNA-directed self-assembly
- Stamping of nanoparticle assemblies
- DNA-Directed Nanofabrication
Expertise related to UN Sustainable Development Goals
In 2015, UN member states agreed to 17 global Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) to end poverty, protect the planet and ensure prosperity for all. This person’s work contributes towards the following SDG(s):
Research area keywords
- Thin Film Solar Cells
- Perovskite Solar Cells
- Dye-Sensitised Solar Cells
- Nanofabrication Self-Assembly
Collaborations and top research areas from the last five years
Projects
- 11 Finished
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Atmospherically-controlled PV processing and accelerated testing facility
Hao, X., Jasieniak, J., Bach, U., Hameiri, Z., Hoex, B. & Ekins-Daukes, N.
22/03/22 → 31/12/22
Project: Research
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Development of efficient interfacial materials with smart design strategy for high-performance large-scale perovskite solar cells with long-term air-stability and high PCE
Reddy, S. S., Bach, U. & Chen, J.
27/04/20 → 26/04/22
Project: Research
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Tailored molecular building blocks for low-dimensional electronic and optoelectronic quantum materials
Schiffrin, A., Ritchie, C., Bach, U., Hellerstedt, J. & Fürer, S.
Monash University – Internal Faculty Contribution
24/10/19 → 31/12/22
Project: Research
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Development of stable electrodes for perovskite solar cells
White, T., Weber, K. J., Catchpole, K. R., Bach, U. & Simonov, A.
1/04/18 → 31/03/22
Project: Research
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Facility for electric & magnetic probes of materials at extreme conditions
Fuhrer, M., Edmonds, M., Bach, U., Suzuki, K., Karel, J., Kalantar-zadeh, K., Wang, L., bansal, V., Ou, J., Seidel, J. & Lu, Y.
1/01/18 → 31/12/21
Project: Other
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Ideality factor mapping of back-contact perovskite solar cells
Rietwyk, K. J., Lin, X., Tan, B., Warnakula, T., Holzhey, P., Zhao, B., Deng, S., Surmiak, M. A., Jasieniak, J. & Bach, U., 3 Mar 2023, In: Advanced Energy Materials. 13, 9, 15 p., 2200796.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Research › peer-review
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Naphthalene-imide self-assembled monolayers as a surface modification of ITO for improved thermal stability of perovskite solar cells
Fürer, S. O., Rietwyk, K. J., Pulvirenti, F., McMeekin, D. P., Surmiak, M. A., Raga, S. R., Mao, W., Lin, X., Hora, Y., Wang, J., Shi, Y., Barlow, S., Ginger, D. S., Marder, S. R. & Bach, U., 23 Jan 2023, In: ACS Applied Energy Materials. 6, 2, p. 667–677 11 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Research › peer-review
1 Citation (Scopus) -
Precursor engineering of lead acetate-based precursors for high-open-circuit voltage wide-bandgap perovskite solar cells
Zhao, J., Chesman, A. S. R., Yan, J., Sutherland, L. J., Jasieniak, J., Lu, J., Mao, W. & Bach, U., 19 Apr 2023, In: ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces. 15, 15, p. 18800-18807 8 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Research › peer-review
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Structural and photophysical properties of guanidinium–iodide-treated perovskite solar cells
Othman, M., Zhang, T., McMeekin, D. P., Fürer, S. O., Mao, W., Li, W., Scully, A. D., Chesman, A. S. R., Nakashima, P. N. H., Bach, U. & Etheridge, J., Jan 2023, In: Solar RRL. 7, 1, 11 p., 2200852.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Research › peer-review
Open Access1 Citation (Scopus) -
Toward uniaxially textured CsPbIBr2 perovskite thin films with twin domains by potassium incorporation
Guo, Q., Zhang, T., Li, W., Li, W., Tan, W. L., McMeekin, D., Xu, Z., Fang, X. Y., McNeill, C. R., Etheridge, J. & Bach, U., 13 Jan 2023, In: ACS Energy Letters. 8, 1, p. 699-706 8 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Research › peer-review
1 Citation (Scopus)