Fifth Dou Group PhD

Zitang (Tim) Wei successfully defended his thesis! — Fifth PhD in our group. Big congratulations! Tim is heading to MIT to do a postdoc training with Prof. Michael Strano. Thank you for your hard work over the years. Best of luck in your future endeavors!

New publication

Ke and Jiaonan’s work on energy landscape management in 2D/3D heterojunction for efficient perovskite solar cells has been published in Science Advances.

In this work, the hole transfer energy barriers is reduced both at heterojunctions and within 2D structures, and the preferable work function shift reduces charge accumulation at interface. Using poly(triarylamine) (PTAA) hole transporting layer, a solar cell with power conversion efficiency of 24.6% has been achieved, which is the highest among PTAA-based n-i-p devices. The devices exhibit greatly enhanced stability and reproducibility.

Read the full story here. Purdue News Release here.

Visiting scholar

We welcome a new visiting student Kagachi Tateno from Aoyama Gakuin University to join us. Kagachi received his BS in Chemistry and he is currently a master student. He will work on OSiP materials and devices for his 9 month stay. Welcome to the group and look forward to working together!