Project Grant 2328010

This $3,000,000 Project Grant awarded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) Engineering Program (CFDA 47.041) supports research to develop a novel lamination approach for halide perovskite semiconductors that enables new device architectures and material combinations for applications like solar cells, LEDs, and other optoelectronic devices.

The research aims to understand, model, and control the process-structure-property relationships during halide perovskite semiconductor manufacturing using this lamination technique. Key objectives include integrating in-line metrology with physics-informed data-driven models to establish a fundamental understanding of the underlying thermo-chemo-mechanical mechanisms, enabling closed-loop process control. The award also supports developing cyberinfrastructure for distributed manufacturing, generating trained machine learning models to optimize processes for small-to-medium manufacturers. Subawards are planned, including one to the University of California, San Diego to focus on solar cell fabrication, characterization, and device performance modeling.