About Us
Our laboratory hosts an active group of interdisciplinary researchers working on the understanding and improvement of nano-electronic materials interfaces, with application to optoelectronic and computing devices. Our overarching aim is to reach the most complete understanding of the mechanisms underpinning charge transport across interfaces in electronic materials.
Grounded on fundamental understanding, we target the development of innovative processing, characterisation and simulation techniques to enable improved nano-electronic interfaces for new energy, photonic, and computing devices.
Interfaces are crucial to the operation of all electron devices. As sizes shrink, charge transport primarily occurs at the junction between two materials, and the interface properties become the limiting factor governing device operation. We focus on the transport of electronic and ionic charges at and across interfaces, which are fundamental to the operation of most devices, from solar cells to transistors and neuromorphic microchips.
There is a vast unexplored area of science and engineering based on advanced interface materials for applied optoelectronic and computing devices, and we are working to be at the leading edge of these innovations.
Most notoriously, we work in materials that can improve the conversion efficiency of photovoltaic devices. It is our aim to promote the uptake of solar electricity generation throughout the world and in this way contribute to the mitigation of climate change.
Our young group was established in 2019 by Sebastian. It brings together our previous world-leading work in silicon photovoltaics, with a broadened research scope on applied electronic materials, the understanding of interfaces in contacts and conductors, and the improvement of thin metal oxide films for transparent electrodes and electrochemical ionic devices. These topics are supported by advanced characterisation techniques and modelling algorithms we have developed in house. We're happy to engage in new areas where electronic materials interfaces can affect or limit device performance, so please drop us a line if you'd like to collaborate.
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