Jacinto Sá

Plasmonik

Vår forskning fokuserar på utveckling och förståelse av plasmon baserade system som kan producera bränsle och kemikalier med högt värde med ljus (konstgjord fotosyntes) och göra solenergi (direkta plasmoniska solceller).

Spin-out med plasmonik transparenta solceller
Jacinto Sá är även en av grundarna av Peafowl Solar Power, ett spin-out-företag som utvecklar en högtransparent direkt plasmonisk solcell för att driva smarta saker som IoT-sensorer

Full professor of Physical-Chemistry at Uppsala University and associate professor at Institute of Physical Chemistry, Polish Academy of Sciences, Poland. Also, Chief Inventor & co-founder of Peafowl Plasmonic.

Graduated from the Universidade of Aveiro, Portugal in 2003 with master thesis at TU Vienna, Austria. PhD from the University of Aberdeen, the UK. Postdoc and senior research at Queen's University Belfast (UK), ETH Zurich, Paul Scherrer Institute and EPFL (Switzerland) and TU Munich (Germany).

My research group focuses on light-matter fundamental interactions, specifically how light is converted into electrical charges on plasmonics. We use advanced laser-based spectroscopies to resolve the processes in real-time. The acquired understanding guides the development of photosystems for producing chemicals and fuels and ultrathin photovoltaics that are fully transparent and colourless "invisible solar cells". The latter action led to Peafowl Plasmonics, which uses these solar cells as energy harvesters to power intelligent devices, such as IoT sensors, e-paper displays, dynamic glass, and eventually wearables.