Current Interests

William Kylberg joined the electrochemistry group at NPL in 2011 and is now working on metrology of dye sensitised and organic solar cells. A particular area of focus is photo-electrochemical and photocurrent mapping.

Biography

William Kylberg received his PhD degree in Chemistry in 2008 from the University of Basel. His PhD work focussed on the synthesis, photo-electrochemistry and use in dye sensitised solar cells of metal polypyridyl complexes. Prior to this he obtained an MSc from the University of Uppsala in Sweden.

As a post-doctoral researcher at the Swiss Federal Institute for Materials Testing and Research (EMPA) in Zurich he worked on organic photovoltaic (OPV) devices and development of flexible transparent electrodes.

Selected publications

• Synthesis, thin-film morphology, and comparative study of bulk and bilayer heterojunction organic photovoltaic devices using soluble diketopyrrolopyrrole molecules
  W. Kylberg, S. Prashant, J. Heier, J.N. Tisserant, C. Muller, F. Nuesch, Z. K. Chen, A. Dodabalapur, S. Yoon, R. Hany
  Energ. Environ. Sci., 4, pages 3617-3624 (2011). DOI: 10.1039/c1ee01544c
• Woven Electrodes for Flexible Organic Photovoltaic Cells
  W. Kylberg, F. A. Castro, P. Chabrecek, U. Sonderegger, B.T Chu, F. Nuesch, R. Hany
  Adv. Mater., 2, pages 1015-1019 (2011). DOI: 10.1002/adma.201003391
• Evaluation of polynuclear dendrons as photosensitizers for dye-sensitized solar cells
  B. Weber-Bozic, E. C. Constable, E. Figgemeier, C. E. Housecroft, W. Kylberg
  Energ. Environ. Sci., 2, pages 299-305 (2009). DOI: 10.1039/b822768
• An element of surprise - efficient copper-functionalized dye-sensitized solar cells
  T. Bessho, E. C. Constable, M. Graetzel, A. H. Redondo, C. E. Housecroft, W. Kylberg, M. K. Nazeeruddin, M. Neuburger, S. Schaffner
  Chem. Comm., 32, pages 3717-3719 (2008). DOI: 10.1039/b808491b
• Scanning photoelectrochemical microscopy as versatile tool to investigate dye-sensitized nano-crystalline surfaces for solar cells
  E. Figgemeier, W. Kylberg, B. Bozic
  P. Soc. Photo-Opt. Inst., 6197, pages 19711-19711 (2006)

Contact details

E-mail: william.kylberg@npl.co.uk
Tel: 020 8943 6692