This multidisciplinary team of chemists and physicists has complementary expertise in synthesis and spectroscopy, which allows us to explore novel materials with promise in photovoltaic and thermoelectric applications. This collaboration will focus on developing new molecules/polymers/nanomaterials and hybrid materials as well as new surface chemistry routes to control the structure at the interface between such novel materials and other device components like electrodes. Next, different state-of-the-art spectroscopic techniques will be used to quantify properties like photoluminescence, carrier dynamics, interfacial organization and composition. This spectroscopic screening process will allow us to gain a broad understanding of structure-function relationships and hasten the identification of promising new material combinations for next-generation energy applications.
Classification of Half-Heusler Compounds through Machine Learning Approaches
Conference/Workshop
Classification of Half-Heusler Compounds through Machine-Learning Approaches
Conference/Workshop
Design and Synthesis of Tellurophenes to Advance Optoelectronic Applications
Conference/Workshop
Doping Silicon Nanoparticles: An Approach to Tailoring Material Properties
Conference/Workshop
Exposing Halide-Mixing in Hybrid Perovskite Materials Using Solid-State NMR
Conference/Workshop
Exposing Halide-Mixing in Next-Generation Hybrid Organic-Inorganic Perovskite Materials using Solid-State NMR
Conference/Workshop
High-Throughput Approaches for Discovering Thermoelectric Materials
Event
Hot-Carrier Induced Photoluminescence Enhancement and Quenching in GaAs and InP Driven by Intense THz Pulses
Conference/Workshop
Hybrid Lead Mixed-Halide Perovskites: Mechanochemical Synthesis and Solid-State NMR Study
Conference/Workshop
In Search of Coloured Intermetallics
Conference/Workshop
Intense-Terahertz-Pulse Enhancement of Hot-Carrier Photoluminescence in GaAs
Conference/Workshop
Machine-learning predictions of half-Heusler structures
Conference/Workshop
Mechanochemical Synthesis of Hybrid Lead Mixed-Halide Perovskites: An Atomic Level Study Using Solid-State NMR
Conference/Workshop
Modulated Photoluminescence of Germanium via Intense Terahertz Electric Fields
Conference/Workshop
Nonlinear Optics of Mineral Oxide Interfaces
Conference/Workshop
Photoluminescence dynamics of functionalized two-dimensional silicon nanosheets
Conference/Workshop
Preparation and Properties of Amphiphilic Photoluminescent Silicon Nanocrystals
Conference/Workshop
Quarternary Rare-earth Transition-Metal Germanides: RE4M2CdGe4 and RE4M2AgGe4 (RE=La-SM, Gd-Lu, M=Mn-Ni)
Conference/Workshop
Quaternary Rare-Earth Transition-Metal Germanides RE4M2CdGe4 and RE4M2AgGe4 (RE = La–Sm, Gd–Tm, Lu; M = Mn–Ni)
Conference/Workshop
Seeing the Stern Layer at the Silica/Aqueous Interface Using Nonlinear Optical Spectroscopy
Conference/Workshop
Structure and Luminescence Properties of Rare-Earth Chalcohalides RE3Ge2Ch8X (Ch = S, Se; X = Cl, Br, I)
Conference/Workshop
Tellurium-containing rings and their polymers for enhanced photovoltaics
Conference/Workshop
Terahertz photoconductivity of germanium inverse opal structures
Conference/Workshop
Ternary Germanides in Ce-M-Ge System (M=Rh, Co)
Conference/Workshop
Ternary Germanides in the Ce–M–Ge (M = Rh, Co) Systems
Conference/Workshop
Thermally induced alkyl-silane dehydrocoupling on the surface of germanium nanocrystals
Conference/Workshop
Time-resolved Terahertz Spectroscopy of Inverse Opal Ge Films
Conference/Workshop
Towards Triplet-Based Photovoltaics: Iodinated Tellurophenes and Their Conjugated Polymers
Conference/Workshop
X-ray diffraction short course
Event
Chemistry Alumni International Graduate Scholarship
Award
DAAD Short-term Research Award
Award
Dr. R. Norman and Magda Kemeny Jones Travel Award
Award
Mitacs Globalink Award for Asjad Hossain
Award
NSERC PGS D3
Award
Pansy and George Strange Graduate Scholarship
Award
Rocky Mountain Conference Travel Stipend
Award
Suraj Manra Graduate Student Presentation Award in Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy (1st Place)
Award
C3N5: A Low Bandgap Semiconductor Containing an Azo-linked Carbon Nitride Framework for Photocatalytic, Photovoltaic and Adsorbent Applications
Scholarly Refereed Journal
Composition-Tunable Formamidinium Lead Mixed Halide Perovskites via Solvent-Free Mechanochemical Synthesis: Decoding the Pb Environments Using Solid-State NMR Spectroscopy
Scholarly Refereed Journal
Cu(II)-Doped CS2SbAgCl6 Double Perovskite: A Lead-Free, Low-Bandgap Material
Scholarly Refereed Journal
Mechanochemical Synthesis of Methylammonium Lead Mixed\textendash Halide Perovskites: Unraveling the Solid-Solution Behavior Using Solid-State NMR
Scholarly Refereed Journal
Mechanochemical synthesis of 0D and 3D cesium lead mixed halide perovskites
Scholarly Refereed Journal
Not Just Par for the Course: 73 Quaternary Germanides RE4M2XGe4 (RE = La–Nd, Sm, Gd–Tm, Lu; M = Mn–Ni; X = Ag, Cd) and the Search for Intermetallics with Low Thermal Conductivity
Scholarly Refereed Journal
Solving the Colouring Problem in Half-Heusler Structures: Machine-Learning Predictions and Experimental Validation
Scholarly Refereed Journal
Synthesis, structure, and properties of rare-earth germanium sulfide iodides RE3Ge2S8I (RE = La, Ce, Pr)
Scholarly Refereed Journal
Ternary and Quaternary Rare-Earth Transition-Metal Germanides
Masters Thesis
Thermoelectric properties of inverse perovskites A3TtO (A = Mg, Ca; Tt = Si, Ge): Computational and experimental investigations
Scholarly Refereed Journal
Topology-Based Prediction of Pathway Dysregulation Induced by Intense Terahertz Pulses in Human Skin Tissue Models
Scholarly Refereed Journal
Triplet excitons: improving exciton diffusion length for enhanced organic photovoltaics
Scholarly Refereed Journal