BARREAU Nicolas

Categories: PROFESSOR AND RESEARCHER, TEAM MIOPS

Professor

Functions :

Professor (P.U. Section 63, University of Nantes, Department of Physics)

Qualifications:

Doctor-HDR

Expertises:

Synthesis and characterization of thin films for optoelectronic applications

Main research themes:

Photovoltaic conversion using chalcopyrite-structured chalcogenide thin films

Current research projects :

ANR: GASPER, SIPHON
Europe: SITA (RIA), PARACELSIS (M-Era Net)
ADEME: PRINCIPLE
PEPR: H2-GreeNH3, TASE-IOTA, SPLEEN-POWERCO2

Activities in the research community

Steering committee: GDR Chalco, PEPR-TASE project targeting IOTA
Board member of the FedPV research federation

Biography

Nicolas Barreau holds a Ph.D. in materials science from the University of Nantes (2001) and was granted the right to supervise doctoral students in 2010. Following his Ph.D., he completed a postdoctoral fellowship (2002–2003) at the Hahn-Meitner Institute in Berlin. He was appointed Associate Professor in 2005, CNU63 section, at the University of Nantes, where he conducted his research at the Laboratory of Materials for Photovoltaics (LAMP, Dir. John Kessler). In 2008, he joined the Institut des Matériaux de Nantes Jean Rouxel (IMN, UMR6502). His research focuses on thin-film photovoltaic conversion using chalcogenide materials (e.g., Cu(In,Ga)(Se,S)2) for applications ranging from the fabrication of tandem cells to photoelectrocatalytic conversion. He is the (co-)author of more than 200 articles (including conference proceedings) and seven Patents.

Teaching :

General physics, photovoltaics

Publications :

Number of publications: 173

Léo Choubrac, Fabien Pineau, Eugène Bertin, Ludovic Arzel and Nicolas Barreau. Rethinking CIGS solar cells for rear illumination applications. (2025) J. Phys. Energy 7 02LT01. DOI 10.1088/2515-7655/ad9acf
Nicolas Barreau, Eugène Bertin, Alexandre Crossay, Olivier Durand, Ludovic Arzel, Sylvie Harel, Thomas Lepetit, Lionel Assmann, Eric Gautron, Daniel Lincot. Investigation of co-evaporated polycrystalline Cu(In,Ga)S2 thin film yielding 16.0% efficiency solar cell. (2022) EPJ Photovoltaics, Volume 13, 27. DOI: 10.1051/epjpv/2022014
N. Barreau, O. Durand, E. Bertin, A. Létoublon, C. Cornet, P. Tsoulka, E. Gautron, D. Lincot. Epitaxial growth of CIGSe layers on GaP/Si (001) pseudo-substrate for tandem CIGSe/Si solar cells. (2021) Solar Energy Materials and Solar Cells 2021, 233, 111385. DOI: 10.1016/j.solmat.2021.111385.
Pati, P.B., Wang, R., Boutin, E., Diring, S., Jobic, S., Barreau, N., Odobel, F., Robert, M.. Photocathode functionalized with a molecular cobalt catalyst for selective carbon dioxide reduction in water (2020) Nature Communications, 11 (1), art. no. 3499. DOI: 10.1038/s41467-020-17125-4

Number of patents : 7

Link to orcid: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8423-153X

Link to scholar.google.fr: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=vr2jHQoAAAAJ&hl=fr