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Position: Full Professor
Department: III. Department of Electronics
Laboratory: Laboratory of Photovoltaics and Optoelectronics
Room No: BN311

Phone: +386 1 4768 843
Secretary: +386 1 4768 320
E-mail: janez.krc@fe.uni-lj.si

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Biography

Degrees

• 2002 Received Ph.D. Degree at Faculty of Electrical Engineering (FEE),
  University of Ljubljana (UL), Slovenia
• 2001 Received M.Sc. Degree at FEE, UL
• 1998 Received B.Sc. Degree at FEE, UL

 

Employment history (in Slovenia)

• 2013  Full Professor at FEE, UL
• 2010  Associate Professor at FEE, UL
• 1999  Teaching assistant at FEE, UL
  Working in Laboratory of Photovoltaics and Optoelectronics, FEE, UL
• 1998  Young researcher, Laboratory of Semiconductor Devices, FEE, UL

 

Working experiences from abroad

• 2023 Ghent University, Photonic Research Group, Belgium (6 months),
• 2011 TU Delft, DIMES, The Netherlands (2 months)
• 2010 TU Delft, DIMES, The Netherlands (2 months)
• 2009 TU Delft, DIMES, The Netherlands (2 months)
• 2008 TU Delft, DIMES, The Netherlands (2 months)
• 2005 TU Delft, DIMES, The Netherlands (4 months)
• 2001 TU Delft, DIMES, The Netherlands (4 months)
• 2001 Research Center Juelich, Institut of Photovoltaics, Germany (1.5 months)

 

Educational activities

Lecturer of the following courses:

• Photonics
• Analog electronic circuits
• Optoelectronics
• Optoelectronic components and systems
• Optoelectronics (post-graduate course)
• and mentor (Diploma, Master and PhD thesis)

Research topics

In the frame of projects and programmes of Laboratory of Photovoltaics and optoelectronics:

• photonic integration, photonic integrated circuits
• optical and electrical miodelling and simulations of photovoltaic devices
• optical modelling of organic light emitting devices (OLEDs)
• concepts of advanced light management in photovoltaic devices and OLED structures
• methods of optical characterization of optoelectronic structures (light scattering)

Project leadership

• 2022 - 2025 QuantERA project uTP4Q (leader from Slovenian side, project on integrated photonics, micro-transfer printing technology and quantum photonics)
• 2020 - 2023 FLAG-ERA project LASERGRAPH (leader from Slovenian side, project on laser reduced graphene oxide in perovskite/CIGS tandem cells)
• 2016 - 2019 H2020 project ARCIGS-M (co-leader from Slovenian side)
• 2009 - 2012 FP7 EU project Silicon-Lght (representative from Slo side)
• 2008 - 2011 Advanced optical concepts of thin-film solar cells (ARRS J2-0851-1538-08, national project)
• 2008 – 2009 Photo-detectors for detection of low light intensities - biosensors (ARRS BI-PT/08-09-004, bilateral project with INESC-MN Portugal)
• 2005 – 2011 different commercial projects with industrial partners

Committees

• 2019 Conference MIDEM 2019, Bled, Slovenia - conference chairman
• 2017 principle co-organizer of Symposium E, E-MRS 2017
• 2016 chair of EUROREG-PV workshop, Ljubljana, Slovenia
• 2015 co-organizer of Symposium C, E-MRS Spring meeting, Lille, France
• 2009 Conference MIDEM 2009 (vice-chairman of the conference and chairman of the workshop on Photovoltaics)
• 2008 Slovenian photovoltaic conference SLO-PV 2008 (member of pragramme committee

 

Other roles:

• 2020 - present  Assciate Editor of journal Frontiers in Photonics
• 2020 - present  Member of Editorial board of journal Solar Energy materials and solar cells
• 2020 - present  Vice-chairman of the MIDEM society (Slovenian Society for Microelectronics, Electronic Components and materials)

 

Awards

• 2021 The Golden Plaquette of University of Ljubljana
• 2018 Apple of Inspiration - Award by the President of the Republic of Slovenia (together with Marko Jošt, Marko Topič, Benjamin Lipovšek, Steve Albrecht and Bernd Rech)
• 2016 Zois certificate of recognition (national award for achievements in scince)
• 2013 Vodovnik's prize (Faculty award for outstanding research), FEE, UL
• 2006 Jožef Stefan Golden Emblem (award of Jožef Stefan Institute for the PhD Thesis)
• 2005 Vodovnik's prize (Faculty award for outstanding PhD Thesis), FEE, UL

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