Sapir was awarded a Fulbright-ISEF Postdoctoral Fellowship to pursue her research project titled "Electrochemical RAM for analog in-memory neural network accelerators".
She completed her B.Sc. in electrical engineering from the Technion Israel Institute of Technology and continued in the joint M.Sc. and Ph.D. track under the supervision of Professor Nir Tessler.
Sapir’s research focused on organic electronic devices based on electronic-ionic conduction. During her studies, Sapir and her supervisor presented, for the first time, the effect of ionic reactions on the performance and stability of perovskite solar cells, as well as the role of counterions in organic electrochemical transistors.
She received several awards, including the Ariane de Rothschild Women’s Doctoral Scholarship for outstanding female Ph.D. students, and the Yablonovitch Research Award for excellence in micro/nanoelectronics, photonics, and electromagnetism.
Sapir’s publications include:
- S. Bitton and N. Tessler, Perovskite ionics – elucidating degradation mechanisms in perovskite solar cells via device modelling and iodine chemistry. Energy & Environmental Science, 2023. 16(6): p. 2621-2628.
- S. Bitton and N. Tessler, Unveiling the Impact of the Electrolyte's Counter Ions on Organic Electrochemical Transistor Performance. Advanced Electronic Materials, 2024. p. 2300766.
- S. Bitton and N. Tessler, Electron/hole blocking layers as ionic blocking layers in perovskite solar cells. Journal of Materials Chemistry C, 2021. 9(6): p. 1888-1894.
