Dr Oliver Hutter

I joined Northumbria University in 2020 as a Senior ViceChancellor’s Fellow in the Department of Mathematics, Physics and Electrical Engineering.

Prior to this, I completed my PhD in Chemistry at the University of Warwick with a thesis entitled “Nanostructured Copper Electrodes for Organic Photovoltaics” in 2015. I then worked at the University of Liverpool in the Stephenson Institute for Renewable Energy from 2015-2020 specialising in photovoltaics.

My research interests lie in emerging materials for thin films solar cells and solar fuel applications. This involves fabricating and characterising photovoltaic devices, and the investigation of the properties of these fascinating materials such as antimony selenide, cadmium telluride, CZTSSe, perovskite materials and organic semiconductors.

Self-funded PhD candidates, CSC scholarship candidates and visiting PhD students are welcomed, please get in touch.

Please also get in touch regarding potential collaborations.

• Please visit the Pure Research Information Portal for further information
• Photonic curing: accelerating thin film processing for next-generation photovoltaics, Wijesinghe, U., Longo, G., Hutter, O. 5 Jun 2026, In: Journal of Physics: Energy
• Photonic curing as a scalable route to solution-processed tungsten oxide films for electrochromic devices, Thummavichai, K., Longo, G., Hutter, O., Wijesinghe, U., Maiello, P., Zoppi, G. 1 May 2026, In: Materials Chemistry and Physics
• Vertically Integrated Silicon–Carbon Nanotube Architectures for High-Capacity and Robust Lithium-Ion Battery Anodes, Ahmad, M., Mumtaz, A., Braga, F., Yang, K., Yates, P., Shalvey, T., Hutter, O., Bilton, M., Major, J., Durose, K., Hardwick, L., Silva, S. 13 Apr 2026, In: ACS Applied Energy Materials
• Reduced temperature solid-state synthesis of barium sulfide: a greener alternative, Tetlow, W., Hutter, O., Etherington, M., Longo, G. 19 Dec 2025, In: RSC Advances
• Scanning Electron Diffraction and Unsupervised Methods: a Study on Photovoltaic Absorbers, Griesi, A., Ivanov, Y., Valluvar Oli, A., Fairclough, S., De Padova, P., Ottaviani, C., Wijesinghe, U., Longo, G., Hutter, O., Di Carlo, A., Kusch, G., Oliver, R., Siebentritt, S., Divitini, G. 15 Dec 2025, Proceedings of MATSUS Spring 2026 Conference (MATSUSSpring26), Fundació Scito
• TiO2 Electron Transport Layers Through Photonic Curing for Sb2Se3 Solar Cells, Wijesinghe, U., Longo, G., Punathil, P., Barrioz, V., Hutter, O. 1 Dec 2025, In: Solar RRL
• Understanding Local Crystallography in Solar Cell Absorbers with Scanning Electron Diffraction, Griesi, A., Ivanov, Y., Fairclough, S., Valluvar Oli, A., Kusch, G., Oliver, R., De Padova, P., Ottaviani, C., Wijesinghe, U., Siebentritt, S., Di Carlo, A., Hutter, O., Longo, G., Divitini, G. 1 Nov 2025, In: Small Methods
• Zn1−xMg xO thin films as a sustainable layer for CZTSSe solar cells, Punathil, P., Campbell, S., Kartopu, G., Maiello, P., Hutter, O., Barrioz, V., Beattie, N., Zoppi, G. 1 Jul 2025, In: Journal of Physics: Energy
• Correction to “Crystalline Antimony Selenide Thin Films for Optoelectronics through Photonic Curing”, Wijesinghe, U., Tetlow, W., Maiello, P., Fleck, N., O'Dowd, G., Beattie, N., Longo, G., Hutter, O. 10 Dec 2024, In: Chemistry of Materials
• Crystalline Antimony Selenide Thin Films for Optoelectronics through Photonic Curing, Wijesinghe, U., Tetlow, W., Maiello, P., Fleck, N., O'Dowd, G., Beattie, N., Longo, G., Hutter, O. 25 Jun 2024, In: Chemistry of Materials

• Udari Punchirala Arachchige Advancing Antimony Selenide Photovoltaics: Novel Strategies for Material Processing and Interface Engineering Start Date: 01/10/2021 End Date: 17/10/2025
• Udari Punchirala Arachchige Advancing Antimony Selenide Photovoltaics: Novel Strategies for Material Processing and Interface Engineering Start Date: 01/10/2021 End Date: 07/12/2025

• Chemistry PhD April 30 2015
• Member (MRSC) Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) 2020