EISLER LAB

PUBLICATIONS

M. Dudala, L. Gaither, and C. N. Eisler, “Horizontally Aligned Dipole Emission through Solvent Controlled Fusing of Perovskite Nanocubes and Nanoplates into 1D Nanowires,” J. Phys. Chem. C, May 2026. https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.jpcc.6c00407

D. J. Katz, G. C. Nerhood, E. Levine, N. Owen, and C. N. Eisler, “Quantifying thin-film nonidealities to assess the performance of low-cost, spin-coated reflectors,” J. Opt. Soc. Am. A, vol. 43, no. 6, p. 901, Jun. 2026. https://doi.org/10.1364/JOSAA.588096

L. E. Parsons, A. Y. Grishchenko, and C. N. Eisler, "Oriented Dipoles in Ordered Ensembles of Confined Lead Halide Perovskite Nanocrystals," J. Phys. Chem. C, 2026, 130, 5, 1996–2003. https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.jpcc.5c07457

L. E. Parsons, B. Russ, and C. N. Eisler, “Tunable Angular Light Emission of Lead Halide Perovskite Nanocrystal Thin Films via Solution-Processed Substrate Treatment,” ACS Nanosci. Au, Jun. 2025, doi: https://doi.org/10.1021/acsnanoscienceau.5c00054.

Russ, B., Lin, T.T., Elenteny, H., and Eisler, C. N. "Quantifying the Accuracy and Precision of the Transition Dipole Moment Alignment from Realistic Angular Emission Data." ACS Photonics, 2025. https://doi.org/10.1021/acsphotonics.5c00684

Russ, B. and Eisler, C. N. "The future of quantum technologies: superfluorescence from solution-processed, tunable materials." Nanophotonics 13 (11), 2024. https://doi.org/10.1515/nanoph-2023-0919

Eisler, C. N., Parsons, L. E., Nett, Z., Love, C., Schwartzberg, A. M., and Alivisatos, A. P. “Photonic Luminescent Solar Concentrator Design for High Efficiency, Low Cost Multijunction Photovoltaics.” Frontiers in Photonics. 2022.

PRIOR TO UCLA

Maserati, L., Rafaely-Abramson, S., Kastl, C., Chen, C. T., Borys, N. J., Eisler, C. N., Collins, M. S., Smidt, T. E., Barnard, E. S., Strasbourg, M., Schriber, E. A., Shevitski, B., Yao, K., Hohman, J. N., Schuck, P. J., Aloni, S., Neaton, J. B., and Schwartzberg, A. M., "Anisotropic 2D excitons unveiled in organic–inorganic quantum wells." Materials Horizons. 2020.

Zhou, N., Bekenstein, Y., Eisler, C. N., Zhang, D., Schwartzberg, A. M., Yang, P., Alivisatos, A. P., and Lewis, J. A., "Perovskite nanowire-block copolymer composites with digitally programmable polarization anisotropy." Science Advances. 5 (5) 2019.

Jurow, M. J., Morgenstern, T., Eisler, C. N., Kang, J., Penzo, E., Do, M., Engelmayer, M., Osowiecki, W. T., Bekenstein, Y., Tassone, C., Wang, L., Alivisatos, A. P., Brütting, W., and Liu Y., "Manipulating the Transition Dipole Moment of CsPbBr3 Perovskite Nanocrystals for Superior Optical Properties." Nano Letters. 19 (4) 2019.

Eisler, C. N., Flowers, C. A., Warmann, E. C., Lloyd, J. V., Espinet-Gonzalez, P., Darbe, S., Dee, M. S., Escarra, M. D., Kosten, E. D., Zhou, W., and Atwater, H. A., "The polyhedral specular reflector: A spectrum-splitting multijunction design to achieve ultrahigh (>50%) solar module efficiencies." IEEE Journal of Photovoltaics. 9 (1) 2018.

Gu, X. W., Hanson, L. A., Eisler, C. N., Koc, M. A., and Alivisatos, A. P., "Pseudoelasticity at large strains in Au nanocrystals." Physcial Review Letters. 121 (5) 2018.

Warmann, E. C., Flowers, C., Lloyd, J., Eisler, C. N., Escarra, M. D., and Atwater, H. A. “Design of photovoltaics for modules with 50% efficiency.” Energy and Environmental Science. 5 (2) 2017.

Luo, S., Eisler, C. N., Wong, T., Xia, H., Lin, C., Wu, T., Shen, C., Shieh, J. Tsai, C., Liu, C., Atwater, H. A., Goddard, W. A., Lee, J., Greer, J. R. “Suppression of surface recombination in CuInSe2 (CIS) thin films via Trioctylphosphine Sulfide (TOP: S) surface passivation.” Acta Materialia. 106. 2016.

Eisler, C. N., Abrams, Z. R., Sheldon, M. T., Zhang, X. and Atwater, H. A. “Multijunction solar cell efficiencies: effect of spectral window, optical environment, and radiative coupling.” Energy and Environmental Science, 7 (11) 2014.

Sheldon, M. T., Eisler, C. N., and Atwater, H. A. “GaAs Passivation with Trioctylphosphine Sulfide for Enhanced Solar Cell Efficiency and Durability.” Advanced Energy Materials, 2. 2012.

RESEARCH HIGHLIGHTS

"35+1 challenges in materials science being tackled by PIs under 35(ish) in 2023" Matter, 6 (8) 2023.

"UCLA Chemical Engineer Receives NSF CAREER Award for Improving Efficiency of LEDs and Solar Cells" - UCLA Samueli Newsroom, Feb. 6, 2023

SELECTED PRESENTATIONS

UPCOMING

MRS Fall Meeting - Boston, MA [November 2026]

Carissa N. Eisler - “Engineering highly anisotropic light emission from isotropically shaped perovskite nanoparticles using surface interactions.” Selected as Early Career Distinguished Presenter for Area EL11: Advances in Halide Perovskites – From Fundamentals to Devices.

American Institute of Chemical Engineers (AIChE) Annual Meeting - Minneapolis, MN [November 2026]

Carissa N. Eisler - “Pathways to Ultra High Efficiency (>50%) Solar Modules Using Luminescent Solar Concentrators with Photoluminescence Trapping”
Alexandra Grishchenko - "Investigating the Relationship between Local Environment and Directional Light Emission In CsPbBr3 Perovskite Nanocrystal Assemblies"
Brendan Russ - "Modeling Dipole Emission Behavior In Nanocrystalline Solids to Enable Next Generation Optoelectronic Devices"

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