Gerasimos Konstantatos

Institut de Ciències Fotòniques

Engineering Sciences

Nov. 2015 – Present: ICREA/Group Leader at the Institute of Photonic Sciences (ICFO), Mediterranean Technology Park, Barcelona, Spain. April 2015 – Oct. 2015: Group Leader – Professor at the Institute of Photonic Sciences (ICFO) Sep. 2009 – March 2015: Group Leader – Assistant Professor at the Institute of Photonic Sciences (ICFO) Sep. 2008 – July 2009: Postdoctoral fellow in the department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Toronto, Canada. Ed/ Oct. 2004 - July 2008: PhD in the department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Toronto, Canada. Connaught Fellow. Sep. 2002 - Sep. 2004: MA Sc in the department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Toronto, Canada.  Sep. 1996 - Sep. 2001: Diploma in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the University of Patras, Greece.  


Research interests

We employ advances in nanoscience and we transform them into nanotechnology in solving real-world problems that current technology cannot address or do so at an affordable cost for the benefit of the society. We are doing so by assembling a group of physicists, chemists and engineers to tackle complex, interdisciplinary problems. We focus on novel functional nanomaterials, nanostructures and devices for optoelectronics and renewable energy applications. Our main scope is on the development of low-cost, high-efficiency solar cells employing nanostructured materials of low toxicity and high abundance to address the TW challenge and on the development of hybrid 2-dimensional / 0-dimensional optoelectronic platforms for highly sensitive, low cost photodetectors in the visible and infrared part of spectrum covering a broad range of applications including night vision, remote sensing, environmental monitoring and biomedical and health monitoring. 

Selected publications

- Goossens S, Navickaite G, Monasterio C, Gupta S, Piqueras JJ, Pérez R, Burwell G, Nikitskiy I, Lasanta T, Galán T, Puma E, Centeno A, Pesquera A, Zurutuza A, Konstantatos G & Koppens F 2017, 'Broadband image sensor array based on graphene–CMOS integration', Nat Photonics, 11, 366-371.

- Huo N, Gupta S & Konstantatos G 2017, 'MoS2–HgTe quantum dot hybrid photodetectors beyond 2 µm', Adv. Mater., 29, 1606576.

-  Li F, Wang H, Kufer D, Liang L, Yu W, Alarousu E, Ma C, Li Y, Liu Z, Liu C, Wei N, Wang F, Chen L, Mohammed OF, Fratalocchi A, Liu X, Konstantatos G & Wu T 2017, 'Ultrahigh carrier mobility achieved in photoresponsive hybrid perovskite films via coupling with single-walled carbon nanotubes', Adv. Mater., 29, 1602432.

- Pradhan S, Stavrinadis A, Gupta S, Christodoulou S & Konstantatos G 2017, 'Breaking the Open-Circuit Voltage Deficit Floor in PbS Quantum Dot Solar Cells through Synergistic Ligand and Architecture Engineering', Acs Energy Letters, 2, 6, 1444 - 1449.

- Pradhan S, Stavrinadis A, Gupta S, Bi Y, Di Stasio F & Konstantatos G 2017, 'Trap-State Suppression and Improved Charge Transport in PbS Quantum Dot Solar Cells with Synergistic Mixed-Ligand Treatments', Small, 13, 21, UNSP 1700598.

- Pradhan S, Stavrinadis A, Gupta S & Konstantatos G 2017, 'Reducing Interface Recombination through Mixed Nanocrystal Interlayers in PbS Quantum Dot Solar Cells', ACS App Mater Inter, 9, 33, 27390 - 27395.

- Wang J-J, Akgul MZ, Bi Y, Christodoulou S & Konstantatos G 2017, 'Low-temperature colloidal synthesis of CuBiS2 nanocrystals for optoelectronic devices', J Mater Chem A, 5, 47, 24621 - 24625.

- Huo N & Konstantatos G​ 2017, 'Ultrasensitive all-2D MoS2 phototransistors enabled by an out-of-plane MoS2 PN homojunction', Nature Commun., 8, 572. 

- Di Stasio F, Christodoulou S, Huo N & Konstantatos G​2017, 'Near-unity photoluminescence quantum yield in CsPbBr3 nanocrystal solid-state films via post-synthesis treatment with lead bromide', Chem. Mater.