Olga Yamilova

Ph.D. thesis: “Revealing electrochemical degradation pathways in complex metal halides and design of stable perovskite solar cells”

Supervisor: Prof. Keith Stevenson

IDC committee members: Prof. Keith Stevenson and Prof. Andriy Zhugayevych

Olga graduated from Lomonosov Moscow State University in 2018 majoring in functional materials for energy. Her diploma work was dedicated to operation stability of organic and hybrid semiconductor materials designed for photovoltaic applications. At Skoltech Olga’s focus of research is also on the stability issues. In her current project, she works on further investigation of the electrochemical stability of complex metal halides with perovskite structure.

List of papers:

1. Ekaterina A. Khakina, Olga R. Yamilova, Artyom V. Novikov, Ivan A. Godovikov, Alexander S. Peregudov, Pavel A. Troshin. Towards an understanding of the mechanism of the Arbuzov-type reaction of C60Cl6 with phosphites. Tetrahedron Letters, v. 57 pp. 5570–5574 (2016)
2. Alexandra Boldyreva, Azat F. Akbulatov, Mohammed Elnaggar, Sergey Yu. Luchkin, Andrei V. Danilov, Ivan S. Zhidkov, Olga R. Yamilova, Yuri S. Fedotov, Sergey I. Bredikhin, Ernst Z. Kurmaev, Keith J. Stevenson, Pavel A. Troshin. Impact of charge transport layers on the photochemical stability of MAPbI3 in thin films and perovskite solar cells. Sustainable Energy Fuels, 3, 2705 (2019)
3. Olga R. Yamilova, Andrei V. Danilov, Mayuribala Mangrulkar, Yuri S. Fedotov, Sergey Yu. Luchkin, Sergey D. Babenko, Sergey I. Bredikhin, Sergey M. Aldoshin, Keith J. Stevenson, Pavel A. Troshin. Reduction of methylammonium cations as a major electrochemical degradation pathway in MAPbI3 perovskite solar cells. J. Phys. Chem. Lett., 11, 1, pp. 221-228 (2020)
4. Olga R. Yamilova, Ilya V. Martynov, Allison S. Brandvold, Irina V. Klimovich, Alex H. Balzer, Alexander V. Akkuratov, Ilya E. Kusnetsov, Natalie Stingelin, Pavel A. Troshin. What is killing organic photovoltaics: light‐induced crosslinking as a general degradation pathway of organic conjugated molecules. Advanced Energy Materials (Early View, DOI: 10.1002/aenm.201903163)

List of conferences:

1. Olga R. Yamilova, Ilya V. Martynov, Liana N. Inasaridze, Alexander V. Akkuratov, Ilya Y. Kusnetsov, Pavel A. Troshin. Towards understanding the photochemical degradation pathways of conjugated polymers using gel permeation chromatography (Talk). III all-Russia conference «Achievements of Chemical Physics», Chernogolovka, Russia (3-7 July 2016) – Best Oral Presentation diploma
2. Olga R. Yamilova, Ilya V. Martynov, Liana N. Inasaridze, Alexander V. Akkuratov, Ilya Y. Kusnetsov, Pavel A. Troshin. Towards understanding the photochemical degradation pathways of conjugated polymers under anoxic conditions (Poster). 13th International Conference on Organic Electronics – 2017 (ICOE-2017), Saint-Petersburg, Russia (4-8 June 2017)
3. Olga R. Yamilova, Liana N. Inasaridze, Sergey Yu Luchkin, Nadezhda N. Dremova, Keith J. Stevenson, Pavel A. Troshin. Towards understanding the electrochemical degradation pathways of perovskite materials thin films(Poster). The European Materials Research Society (E-MRS) 2017 Fall Meeting, Warsaw, Poland (18-21 September 2017)
4. Olga R. Yamilova, Sergey Yu Luchkin, Mayuribala Mangrulkar, Yuri S. Fedotov, Sergey I. Bredikhin, Pavel A. Troshin. Electrochemical degradation pathways of lead halide based perovskites in thin films and solar cells(Poster). The European Materials Research Society (E-MRS) 2018 Fall Meeting, Warsaw, Poland (17-20 September 2018) – Best Poster Prize
5. Olga R. Yamilova, Yuri S. Fedotov, Andrei V. Danilov, Sergey I. Bredikhin, Lyubov A. Frolova, Keith J. Stevenson, Pavel A. Troshin. Influence of hole transport interlayer on the electrochemical stability of perovskite solar cells (Talk). The European Materials Research Society (E-MRS) 2019 Fall Meeting, Warsaw, Poland (16-19 September 2019)
6. Olga R. Yamilova, Yuri S. Fedotov, Andrei V. Danilov, Sergey I. Bredikhin, Lyubov A. Frolova, Keith J. Stevenson, Pavel A. Troshin. Influence of hole transport materials on the electrochemical stability of perovskite solar cells (Talk). The International school on Hybrid, Organic and Perovskite Photovoltaics (HOPE-PV) 2019, Moscow, Russia (21-23 October 2019) – Best Oral Presentation diploma
7. Olga R. Yamilova, Yuri S. Fedotov, Andrei V. Danilov, Sergey I. Bredikhin, Lyubov A. Frolova, Keith J. Stevenson, Pavel A. Troshin. Impact of charge transport interlayers on the electrochemical stability of perovskite solar cells (Poster). The International Conference on Advanced Electromaterials (ICAE) 2019, Jeju, Korea (5-8 November 2019)