Final video interview – Claudine Katan and Jacky Even for CNRS

Claudine Katan is research director at CNRS and Jacky Even is professor at INSA.

Below is their statement on the European project:

CK: “Jacky Even, professor at INSA and myself are leading a joint team working on the physics of metal halide perovskites, now for more than ten years”.

JE: “Indeed, with Claudine Katan, who is research director at CNRS, and our young collaborators gathering quite diverse scientific backgrounds, we develop concepts, theoretical models and simulation tools specifically designed for metal halide perovskites, building on our early vision that they do form a distinctive class of semiconductors”.

CK: “In the past four years, we had great time collaborating with our partners of PeroCUBE and were particularly excited about being able to contribute to face the big challenge of the energy transition with the development of renewable energy sources, namely low-cost solar cells but also LEDs, as well as getting towards innovative but frugal technologies such as LiFi”.

JE: “Thanks to the PeroCUBE project, the potential of halide perovskite semiconductors is now confirmed with proof of concept for innovative optoelectronic applications, such as wearable indoor positioning or large area Perovskite-based LEDs. We strongly believe that it is now time to support European companies to helped them overcome the latest technological hurdles for upscaling. On the other hand, new projects involving academic research, small and medium sized enterprises are still needed to face the stability issues”.

CK: “We in Rennes are very keen to contribute in this direction in future European projects, being convinced that fundamental research can further contribute to a sustainable transition while educating future generations”.