• Diego Colombara, Billy J. Stanbery and Giovanna Sozzi, Revani diffusion model in Cu(In,Ga)Se2, (2023).  J. Mater. Chem. A , vol.11, 48, pp. 26426 - 26434, https://doi.org/10.1039/d3ta03690a

• Mohit Raghuwanshi, Manjusha Chugh, Giovanna Sozzi, Ana Kanevce, Thomas D. Kühne, Hossein Mirhosseini, Roland Wuerz, Oana Cojocaru-Mirédin, Fingerprints Indicating Superior Properties of Internal Interfaces in Cu(In,Ga)Se2 Thin-Film Solar Cells. Adv. Mater. 2022, 34, 2203954,  https://doi.org/10.1002/adma.202203954 

• Giovanna Sozzi, Dimitrios Hariskos, Wolfram Witte (2022). Differences of CIGS cell performance with Zn(O, S)/(Zn, Mg)O or CdS/i-ZnO buffers system explored by numerical simulations, 2022 IEEE 49th Photovoltaics Specialists Conference (PVSC), Philadelphia, PA, USA, 2022, pp. 0370-0373, https://doi.org/10.1109/PVSC48317.2022.9938806

• Giovanna Sozzi, Oana Cojocaru-Mirédin and Roland Wuerz, A simulation study on the effect of sodium on grain boundary passivation in CIGS thin-film solar cells, 2021 48th IEEE Photovoltaic Specialists Conference (PVSC), pp.0187-0191. https://doi.org/10.1109/PVSC43889.2021.9518887

• G. Sozzi G. and R. Menozzi, On the effect of deep defects on the Voc deficit in high-GGI CIGS absorbers: A numerical study, 2020 47th IEEE Photovoltaic Specialists Conference (PVSC), 2020, pp. 0759-0762. https://doi.org/10.1109/PVSC45281.2020.9300948

• G. Sozzi and R. Menozzi, "Simulation of the effect of grain-boundaries in backside-passivated CIGS solar cells," 2020 47th IEEE Photovoltaic Specialists Conference (PVSC), 2020, pp. 1145-1148, https://doi.org/10.1109/PVSC45281.2020.9300482

• S. Siebentritt, E. Avancini, M. Bär, J. Bombsch, E. Bourgeois, S. Buecheler, R. Carron, C. Castro, S. Duguay, R. Félix, E. Handick, D. Hariskos, V. Havu, P. Jackson, H.P. Komsa, T. Kunze, M. Malitckaya, R. Menozzi, M. Nesladek, N. Nicoara, M. Puska, M. Raghuwanshi, P. Pareige, S. Sadewasser, G. Sozzi, A.N. Tiwari, S. Ueda, A. Vilalta-Clemente, T.P. Weiss, F. Werner, R.G. Wilks, W. Witte, M.H. Wolter, Heavy Alkali Treatment of Cu(In,Ga)Se2 Solar Cells: Surface versus Bulk Effects, Adv. Energy Mater. 10 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1002/aenm.201903752

• Nicoara, N., Manaligod, R., Jackson, P., Hariskos, D., Witte, W., Sozzi, G., Menozzi, R., Sadewasser, S. (2019). Direct evidence for grain boundary passivation in Cu(In,Ga)Se2 solar cells through alkali-fluoride post-deposition treatments. Nature Communications, Vol. 10, Issue 1, Article number 3980, ISSN: 20411723, doi: 10.1038/s41467-019-11996-y

• Avancini, E., Keller, D., Carron, R., Arroyo-Rojas Dasilva, Y., Erni, R., Priebe, A., Di Napoli, S., Carrisi, M., Sozzi, G., Menozzi, R., Fu, F., Buecheler, S., Tiwari, A.N. (2018). Voids and compositional inhomogeneities in Cu(In,Ga)Se2 thin films: evolution during growth and impact on solar cell performance. Science and Technology of Advanced Materials, Vol. 19, Issue 1, p. 871-882, ISSN: 14686996, doi: 10.1080/14686996.2018.1536679 

• Sozzi Giovanna, Di Napoli Simone, Martina Carrisi, Roberto Menozzi, (2018). Assessing the impact of rear point-contact/passivation on CIGS cells with different absorber thickness and grading. In Proc.: IEEE 7th World Conference on Photovoltaic Energy Conversion, WCPEC 2018 - A Joint Conference of 45th IEEE PVSC, 28th PVSEC and 34th EU PVSEC, 8548312, pp. 3044-3047, doi: 10.1109/PVSC.2018.8548312 

• Sozzi Giovanna, Di Napoli Simone, Roberto Menozzi, Weiss Thomas P.,  Buecheler Stephan, Tiwari  Ayodya N (2018). Interpretation of admittance signatures in Cu(In,Ga)Se2 solar cell. In Proc.: IEEE 7th World Conference on Photovoltaic Energy Conversion, WCPEC 2018 - A Joint Conference of 45th IEEE PVSC, 28th PVSEC and 34th EU PVSEC, 8547296, p. 2515-2519, doi: 10.1109/PVSC.2018.8547296 

• Werner, F., Wolter, M.H., Siebentritt, S., Sozzi, G., Di Napoli, S., Menozzi, R., Jackson, P., Witte, W., Carron, R., Avancini, E., Weiss, T.P., Buecheler, S. (2018). Alkali treatments of Cu(In,Ga)Se2 thin-film absorbers and their impact on transport barriers. Progress in Photovoltaics: Research and Applications, vol. 26, Issue 11, p. 911-923, ISSN: 10627995, doi: 10.1002/pip.3032 

• Sozzi Giovanna, Di Napoli Simone, Menozzi Roberto, Bissig Benjamin, Buecheler Stephan, Tiwari Ayodhya N. (2017). Impact of front-side point contact/passivation geometry on thin-film solar cell performance. SOLAR ENERGY MATERIALS AND SOLAR CELLS, vol. 165, p. 94-102, ISSN: 0927-0248, doi: 10.1016/j.solmat.2017.02.031

• Avancini Enrico, Carron Romain, Bissig Benjamin, Reinhard Patrick, Menozzi Roberto, Sozzi Giovanna, Di Napoli Simone, Feurer Thomas, Nishiwaki Shiro, Buecheler Stephan, Tiwari Ayodhya N. (2017). Impact of compositional grading and overall Cu deficiency on the near-infrared response in Cu(In, Ga)Se2 solar cells. PROGRESS IN PHOTOVOLTAICS, vol. 25, p. 233-241, ISSN: 1062-7995, doi: 10.1002/pip.2850

• Sozzi G., Di Napoli S., Menozzi R., Werner F., Siebentritt S., Jackson P., Witte W. (2017). Influence of conduction band offsets at window/buffer and buffer/absorber interfaces on the roll-over of J-V curves of CIGS solar cells. Accettata per la pubblicazione in: Proceedings of the IEEE 44th Photovolt. Spec. Conference, 2017

• Sozzi G., Lazzarini M., Menozzi R., Carron R., Avancini E., Bissig B., Buecheler S., Tiwari A.N. (2016). A numerical study of the use of C-V characteristics to extract the doping density of CIGS absorbers. In: Proceedings of the IEEE 43rd Photovolt. Spec. Conference, IEEE, 2016, ISBN: 9781509027248, ISSN: 0160-8371 Portland, OR, USA, 5-10 June 2016, doi: 10.1109/PVSC.2016.7750043

• Sozzi G., Di Napoli S., Menozzi R., Carron R., Avancini E., Bissig B., Buecheler S., Tiwari A.N. (2016). Analysis of Ga grading in CIGS absorbers with different Cu content. In: Proceedings of the IEEE 43rd Photovolt. Spec. Conference, IEEE, 2016, p. 2279-2282, IEEE, ISBN: 9781509027248, ISSN: 0160-8371, Portland, OR, USA, 5-10 June 2016, doi: 10.1109/PVSC.2016.7750042

• Sozzi G., Pignoloni D., Menozzi R., Pianezzi F., Reinhard P., Bissig B., Buecheler S., Tiwari A. N. (2015). Designing CIGS solar cells with front-side point contacts. In: Proceedings of IEEE 42nd Photovolt. Spec. Conference, 2015, p. 1-5, IEEE, ISBN: 978-1-4799-7944-8, ISSN: 0160-8371, New Orleans, LA, USA, Date 14-19 June 2015, doi: 10.1109/PVSC.2015.7355691

• Sozzi G., Menozzi R., Cavallari N., Bronzoni M., Annoni F., Calicchio M., Mazzer M. (2015). On the temperature behavior of shunt-leakage currents in Cu(In,Ga)Se2 solar cells: The role of grain boundaries and rear Schottky contact. In: Proceedings of IEEE 42nd Photovolt. Spec. Conference, 2015, p. 1-4, IEEE, ISBN: 978-1-4799-7944-8, ISSN: 0160-8371, New Orleans, LA, USA, 14-19 June 2015, doi: 10.1109/PVSC.2015.7355779

• Reinhard Patrick, Bissig Benjamin, Pianezzi Fabian, Hagendorfer Harald, Sozzi Giovanna, Menozzi Roberto, Gretener Christina, Nishiwaki Shiro, Buecheler Stephan, Tiwari Ayodhya N. (2015). Alkali-templated surface nanopatterning of chalcogenide thin films: A novel approach toward solar cells with enhanced efficiency. NANO LETTERS, vol. 15, p. 3334-3340, ISSN: 1530-6984, doi: 10.1021/acs.nanolett.5b00584

• Sozzi G., Mosca R., Calicchio M., Menozzi R. (2014). Anomalous dark current ideality factor (n > 2) in thin-film solar cells: The role of grain-boundary defects. In: Proceedings of IEEE 40th Photovolt. Spec. Conference, 2014, p. 1718-1721, IEEE, ISSN: 0160-8371, Denver (CO)-USA, JUNE 2014, doi: 10.1109/PVSC.2014.6925252

• G. Sozzi, et al. On the combined effects of window/buffer and buffer/absorber conduction-band offsets, buffer thickness and doping on thin-film solar cell performance. SOLAR ENERGY MATERIALS AND SOLAR CELLS, vol. 121, p. 126-136, 2014. doi.org/10.1016/j.solmat.2013.10.037

• F. Troni, R. Menozzi, G. Sozzi, J. Sharp, L. Faraone, G. A. Umana-Membreno, J. Dell (2012). Numerical simulation of grain boundaries in cadmium telluride solar cells. In: -. APMC10/ICONN2012/ACMM22 Conference Proceedings. Perth, WA, Australia, 5-9 febbraio 2012, p. 885-1-885-2, ISBN: 9781740522458

• F. Troni, G. Sozzi, R. Menozzi (2011). A numerical study of the design of ZnMgO window layer for Cadmium-free thin-film CIGS solar cells. In: Proc. 7th Conf. PhD Research in Microelectronics & Electronics (PRIME 2011). p. 193-196, IEEE, ISBN: 978-142449137-7, Madonna di Campiglio (TN), 3-7 luglio 2011, doi: 10.1109/PRIME.2011.5966250

• F. Troni, F. Dodi, G. Sozzi, R. Menozzi (2010). Modeling of thin-film Cu(In,Ga)Se2 solar cells. In: Proc. Int. Conf. Simulation of Semiconductor Processes and Devices (SISPAD 2010). vol. ISBN 978-1-4244-7700, p. 33-36, IEEE, ISBN: 978-142447699-2, Bologna, 6-8 settembre 2010, doi: 10.1109/sispad.2010.5604580

• G. Sozzi, F. Troni, R. Menozzi (2010). Numerical analysis of the effect of grain size and defects on the performance of CIGS solar cells. In: Compound Semiconductor MANTECH Digest of Papers. p. 353-356, Beaverton, OR:CS MANTECH, Inc., ISBN: 1893580156, Portland, OR (USA), May 17-20, 2010

Payam Rajabi Kalvani, Antonella Parisini, Giovanna Sozzi, Carmine Borelli, Piero Mazzolini, Oliver Bierwagen, Salvatore Vantaggio, Kingsley Egbo, Matteo Bosi, Luca Seravalli, and Roberto Fornari, (2023) Interfacial Properties of the SnO/κ-Ga2O3 p-n Heterojunction: A Case of Subsurface Doping Density Reduction via Thermal Treatment in κ‑Ga2O3.  ACS Appl. Mater. Interfaces 2023, 15, 45997−46009, https://doi.org/10.1021/acsami.3c08841

G. Sozzi, S. Sapienza, R. Nipoti and G. Chiorboli (2021). OCVD Measurement of Ambipolar and Minority Carrier Lifetime in 4H-SiC Devices: Relevance of the Measurement Setup," in IEEE Transactions on Electron Devices, vol. 68, no. 7, pp. 3254-3260, July 2021, https://doi.org/10.1109/TED.2021.3083211

S. Sapienza, G. Sozzi, D. Santoro, P. Cova, N. Delmonte, G. Verrini, G. Chiorboli, Correlation between OCVD carrier lifetime vs temperature measurements and reverse recovery behavior of the body diode of SiC power MOSFETs (2020). Microelectronics Reliability, Volume 113, 113937, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.microrel.2020.113937.

Sozzi Giovanna, Puzzanghera Maurizio, Menozzi Roberto, Nipoti Roberta (2019). The role of defects on forward current in 4h-sic p-i-n diodes. IEEE Transactions on Electron Devices, vol. 66, Issue 7, p. 3028-3033, doi: 10.1109/TED.2019.2917534.

Nipoti, R., Canino, M., Sapienza, S., Bellettato, M., Sozzi, G., Alfieri, G. (2019). Activation energy for the post implantation annealing of 1019cm-3 and 1020 cm-3 ion implanted al in 4H SiC. Materials Science Forum, vol. 963, p. 416-419, doi:10.4028/www.scientific.net/MSF.963.416. 

Roberta Nipoti, Maurizio Puzzanghera, Giovanna Sozzi, Roberto Menozzi (2018). Perimeter and Area Components in the IV Curves of 4H-SiC Vertical p⁺-in Diode With Al⁺ Ion-Implanted Emitters. IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON ELECTRON DEVICES, vol. 65, p. 629-635, https://doi.org/ 10.1109/TED.2017.2779602.

Roberta Nipoti, Maurizio Puzzanghera, Giovanna Sozzi, Roberto Menozzi (2018). Perimeter and Area Components in the IV Curves of 4H-SiC Vertical p⁺-in Diode With Al⁺ Ion-Implanted Emitters. IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON ELECTRON DEVICES, vol. 65, p. 629-635, doi: 10.1109/TED.2017.2779602

Roberta Nipoti, Maria Concetta Canino, Maurizio Puzzanghera, Giovanna Sozzi (2017). Thermal Stability of 1× 1020 cm-3 Al+ Implanted 4H-SiC after Electrical Activation at Temperature≥ 1850° C. ECS Transactions, Vol. 80, Issue 7, p. 101-105, doi: 10.1149/08007.0101ecst.

Roberta Nipoti, Maurizio Puzzanghera, Mariaconcetta Canino, Giovanna Sozzi (2017). Ni-Al-Ti Ohmic Contacts on 1 x 1020 cm-3 Al+ Ion Implanted 4H-SiC. ECS Transactions , Vol. 80, Issue 7, p. 117-122. doi: 10.1149/08007.0117ecst 

Sozzi Giovanna, Puzzanghera Maurizio, Chiorboli Giovanni, Nipoti Roberta (2017). OCVD Lifetime Measurements on 4H-SiC Bipolar Planar Diodes: Dependences on Carrier Injection and Diode Area. IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON ELECTRON DEVICES, vol. 64, p. 2572-2578, doi: 10.1109/TED.2017.2691280

Nipoti Roberta, Puzzanghera Maurizio, Sozzi Giovanna (2017). Al+ Ion Implanted 4H-SiC Vertical p+-i-n Diodes: Processing Dependence of Leakage Currents and OCVD Carrier Lifetimes. In: Silicon Carbide and Related Materials 2016. MATERIALS SCIENCE FORUM, vol. 897, p. 439-442, Trans Tech Publications, doi:10.4028/www.scientific.net/MSF.897.439

Alfieri Giovanni, Mihaila Andrei, Nipoti Roberta, Puzzanghera Maurizio, Sozzi Giovanna, Godignon Philippe, Milan Jose (2017). Point Defects Investigation of High Energy Proton Irradiated SiC p+-i-n Diodes. In: Silicon Carbide and Related Materials 2016. MATERIALS SCIENCE FORUM, vol. 897, p. 246-249, doi:10.4028/www.scientific.net/MSF.897.246

Nipoti Roberta, Parisini Antonella, Sozzi Giovanna, Puzzanghera Maurizio, Parisini Andrea, Carnera Alberto (2016). 4H-SiC ion implanted bipolar junctions: Relevance of the 1950°C temperature for post implantation annealing. ECS TRANSACTIONS, vol. 75, p. 171-181, doi: 10.1149/07512.0171ecst

Nipoti Roberta, Sozzi Giovanna, Puzzanghera Maurizio, Menozzi Roberto (2016). Al+ implanted vertical 4H-SiC p-i-n diodes: experimental and simulated forward current-voltage characteristics. MRS ADVANCES, vol. 1, p. 3637-3642, doi: 10.1557/adv.2016.315

Nipoti Roberta, Parisini Antonella, Sozzi Giovanna, Puzzanghera Maurizio, Parisini Andrea, Carnera Alberto (2016). Structural and Functional Characterizations of Al+Implanted 4H-SiC Layers and Al+Implanted 4H-SiCp-nJunctions after 1950°C Post Implantation Annealing. ECS JOURNAL OF SOLID STATE SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY, vol. 5, p. P621-P626, doi: 10.1149/2.0211610jss

Santoro Danilo, Delmonte Nicola, Simonazzi Marco, Toscani Andrea, Rocchi Nicholas, Sozzi Giovanna, Cova Paolo, Menozzi Roberto (2023). Local Power Distribution—A Review of Nanogrid Architectures, Control Strategies, and Converters. SUSTAINABILITY, vol. 15, 2759,  https://doi.org/ 10.3390/su15032759

Simonazzi, M., Chiorboli, G., Cova, P., Menozzi, R., Santoro, D., Sapienza, S., Sciancalepore, C., Sozzi, G., Delmonte, N. (2020). Smart soiling sensor for PV modules. MICROELECTRONICS RELIABILITY, vol. 114, ISSN: 0026-2714, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.microrel.2020.113789