This Project Grant award in the amount of $189,999, awarded by the National Science Foundation's Mathematical and Physical Sciences (CFDA 47.049) program, supports a collaborative research project between the University of Maine and the University of Alabama. The goal is to develop a new class of entropy-stabilized perovskite halide materials with enhanced thermodynamic and environmental stability, while also exhibiting desirable optoelectronic properties. The research entails a closed...
This $267,508 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Mathematical and Physical Sciences program will support research to understand and control light-induced polarization in halide perovskite materials. The 5-year project aims to stabilize metastable polar phases in these soft, dynamic perovskite materials to unlock their potential for advanced ferroelectric, ferromagnetic, and multiferroic applications. The research will combine novel materials design with advanced...
This $481,456 Project Grant awarded by the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Division of Materials Research under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences (CFDA 47.049) program supports research to develop a new family of organochalcogenide-halide perovskite semiconductors. The project at Stanford University aims to explore how incorporating chalcogens (S, Se) into lead-halide perovskite frameworks can improve material stability and optoelectronic properties for potential applications in solar...
This Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's Division of Materials Research provides $238,828 to Hope College from October 1, 2021 through September 30, 2024. The funding supports research under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049) to explore non-perovskite phase growth mechanisms in halide perovskites. The grant will allow the grantee to advance understanding of major materials science challenges through investigations of crystal formation pathways that...
The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a $520,000 Project Grant to the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) through its Mathematical and Physical Sciences (CFDA 47.049) program. The grant supports a 3-year research project to investigate charge transport and carrier-phonon interactions in soft lattice metal halide perovskites, a class of "soft" semiconductors with potential for optoelectronic devices. The research aims to develop a critical understanding of the...
This $328,153 Project Grant awarded by the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Mathematical and Physical Sciences (CFDA 47.049) program supports research at the University of Virginia (UVA) to develop two-dimensional metal halide perovskites as a templating tool for controlling the crystal structure and optoelectronic properties of organic semiconductor thin films. The research aims to improve the understanding of how subtle changes in molecular packing can impact the exciton transfer,...
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...
The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded Clemson University's Division of Research a $377,053 Project Grant under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences (CFDA 47.049) federal grant program. The funding supports research to investigate transient charge and exciton dynamics in halide perovskite semiconductors, particularly under electrical excitation. The project aims to develop an ultrafast electroluminescence testbed to study free charge carrier recombination, exciton funneling and...
The National Science Foundation (NSF) Directorate for Mathematical and Physical Sciences awarded a 2-year, $238,316 Project Grant to Wesleyan University to develop new non-contact terahertz characterization techniques to study charge carrier transport in phase-stable hybrid perovskite materials. The project, titled "LEAPS-MPS: TIME- AND DEPTH-RESOLVED CHARGE CARRIER TRANSPORT IN PHASE STABLE HYBRID PEROVSKITES", aims to increase the probing window from picosecond to millisecond...
This $371,847 federal Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Mathematical and Physical Sciences (CFDA 47.049) program supports collaborative research at The Johns Hopkins University focused on using two-dimensional metal halide perovskite (2D MHP) thin films as a crystallization templating tool for organic semiconductor (OSC) thin films. The research aims to reduce disorder in OSC crystal packing and control packing geometries to tune optoelectronic behaviors, including...
The National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Materials Research awarded a $164,671 Project Grant to Arizona State University to develop and evaluate a new class of lead-free perovskite halide materials for optoelectronic applications under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences (CFDA 47.049) program. This collaborative research between the University of Maine and the University of Alabama aims to computationally design, synthesize, characterize, and assess the stability of entropy-stabilized perovskite halide materials containing five or more principal metal elements. The project focuses on enhancing the thermodynamic and environmental stability of these perovskite halide materials while maintaining their desirable optoelectronic properties for potential use in solar cells, light-emitting devices, photodetectors, radiation detectors, and sensors. This research effort involves a closed feedback loop between theoretical predictions and experimental validation and will train three Ph.D. students and six undergraduates in computation, experimentation, and data analysis.