The project was conducted under the “Emerging Security Challenges Division Science for Peace and Security Programme.” From the NATO member country side, the “Crystal Growth and Characterization of Semiconductors [CreCYCSem]” group (led by Prof. Vicente Muñoz Sanjose, Universitat de Valencia, Spain) participated. Representing the non-NATO country was the “Nanoelectronics Materials” group (led by Prof. Anatolii Serhiiovych Opanasiuk, Sumy State University, Ukraine).
During the final project meeting—organized by the Department of Applied Physics and Electromagnetism of the University of Valencia and sponsored by the SPS NATO Programme—not only were the project’s results presented, but one of the conference’s aims was also to invite and hear interesting talks by other Ukrainian researchers who had been forced to leave their country due to the war with Russia. Examples include Andrii Kanaak of the Fochuk group, now working at ETN in Zurich. For those Ukrainian students and doctoral candidates unable to travel to Spain, remote presentations were arranged, such as by Kateryna Smyrnova and Volodymyr Buranich of Prof. Pohrebniak’s group in Bratislava, Slovakia. In total, 20 presentations were prepared and delivered during the conference.
Each day opened with a plenary session led by invited experts whose topics closely matched the conference theme. These included Prof. Ivan Mora Seró (Universitat Jaume I, Spain) with “Solution-Processed Halide Perovskite Solar Cells,” Prof. Albert Cirera Hernández (Universitat de Barcelona, Spain) with “Inkjet-Printed Electronics: From Materials Science to Engineering Devices,” and Prof. Juan Martínez Pastor (Universitat de Valencia, Spain) with “Tin Halide Perovskites for (Flexible) Photonics and Optoelectronics.”
Under the NATO project, the team prepared five patent applications, published seventeen journal articles, and wrote forty conference abstracts. Sumy State University doctoral candidates visited the University of Valencia five times to present their research findings and gain hands-on experience with various research instruments.
