We are an interdisciplinary research team at Arizona State University led by Professor Nick Rolston. Our focus is to develop next-generation renewable energy technology using innovative, high-throughput processing and characterization methods.
Research Goals
We study the connection between material degradation in printable thin-film energy materials and devices with the evolution of mechanical and environmental stress parameters.
We leverage scalable, open-air deposition methods, ranging from spray coating to slot-die coating, to fabricate energy devices toward the goal of manufacturing.
We produce devices that are robust and resilient to degradation with improved operational lifetimes. We use thin-film metrologies to characterize reliability along with newly developed and custom-built equipment to characterize material properties on length scales from angstroms to meters.