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Light trapping in solar cells using resonant nanostructures
Spinelli, P.
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2013
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Spinelli, P. (2013). Light trapping in solar cells using resonant nanostructures.
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About the author
Pierpaolo (Piero) Spinelli was born in Putignano, Italy, on April 24, 1985. After receiving his high school diploma from the Liceo Scientifico “E. Majo-rana” in Putignano in 2004, he studied Physics at the University of Padova, Italy. He graduated cum laude in 2009, with a thesis on ferromagnetic semiconductors, which was prepared during a 6-month internship at the Interuniversity Center for Micro
Elec-tronics (IMEC) in Leuven, Belgium. In 2009, he also graduated from the Scuola Galileiana di Studi Superiori, a higher learning institution in Padova.
In 2010 he started working as a PhD-student at the FOM Institute for Atomic and Molecular Physics (AMOLF) in Amsterdam, The Netherlands, under the super-vision of prof. dr. Albert Polman. The results of this project are presented in this thesis. During his PhD, he spent a period of 6 months at the California Institute of Technology in the group of prof. Harry Atwater, working on light trapping in GaAs solar cells.
Besides his scientific interests, Piero is also interested in economics, finance and aviation. In his free time, Piero enjoys biking, cooking and travelling.
