Rate My Professor Matt Carnie

Professor Matt Carnie is Professor of Materials Science and Engineering at Swansea University. He holds an EngD. His research broadly encompasses Energy Materials and Devices, focusing on Photovoltaic Applications, Materials and Device Characterization, and Thermoelectrics. Carnie has secured over £2.5 million in funding for integrating next-generation photovoltaic technologies into Internet of Things objects. He leads the integration work for next-generation photovoltaics into IoT objects in the ATIP project (EP/T028513/1, £6M), where his team developed an ultra-low power, self-powered IoT platform that powers autonomous sensors indefinitely under various lighting conditions; commercialization efforts are underway. This research connects to the GENERATION project (EP/W025396/1, £1.25M, started January 2023), uniting computer scientists, materials chemists, and gerontologists for self-powered technologies benefiting aging populations, evolving from PV Interfaces (EP/R032750/1, £1M).

Carnie led Swansea's Materials-Hub under the WEFO-funded SPARC II project, SPECIFIC-IKC (EP/N020863/1), and Sêr Solar programs. His photovoltaic research utilizes Intensity Modulated Photovoltage Spectroscopy and Transient Photovoltage Decay to study carrier transport, recombination, and mobility in solution-processed photovoltaic materials and devices. In thermoelectrics, he directed SPECIFIC's work on solution-processable organic and hybrid materials, contributing to SnSe thermoelectric generators in Advanced Energy Materials and a printed thermoelectrics review in Advanced Materials. Select publications include 'Printed Thermoelectrics' (Advanced Materials, 2022), 'Proton Radiation Hardness of Organic Photovoltaics: An In-Depth Study' (Solar RRL, 2022), 'Will the Internet of Things Be Perovskite Powered? Energy Yield Measurement and Real-World Performance of Perovskite Solar Cells in Ambient Light Conditions' (IoT, 2022), 'Beyond Impedance Spectroscopy of Perovskite Solar Cells: Insights from the Spectral Correlation of the Electrooptical Frequency Techniques' (Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters, 2020), and 'Lightweight and Bulk Organic Thermoelectric Generators Employing Novel P-Type Few-Layered Graphene Nanoflakes' (ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces, 2020). He is co-founder of Reef-IoT and a Conference Ambassador for Wales.