Alberto MITTIGA

Dr. ALBERTO MITTIGA: Master Degree in Physic in 1986 with a thesis on polycrystalline silicon solar cells. After some years of reasearch activity in the University of Rome, he was employed at Eniricerche as a researcher in the Material Science Department. From 1994 he is a researcher in the Italian National Agency for New Technologies, Energy and Enviroment (ENEA). Head of ENEA Photovoltaic Technologies Lab from April 2010 to May 2013.He worked on several c-Si and a-Si devices (solar cells, Thin Film Transistors, particle detectors) and on the processes involved in their production (Hydrogen diffusion, grain boundary characterization and passivation, a-Si:H photodegradation and laser recrystallization). On these topics he performed both experimental investigations and numerical modeling. After 2004 he devoted his work to the study of earth abundant semiconductors for photovoltaic applications producing several papers on Cuprous oxide (Cu2O) solar cells and then on kesterite (Cu2ZnSnS4) solar cells.