Micro-Nano Optical-Electronics Lab(MNOEL)

2023.9 Research, Innovation at UAPB gets a grant

Research and Innovation at the University of Arkansas Pine Bluff is one of nine consortium partnerships that the U.S. Department of Energy's National Nuclear Security Administration's Minority Serving Institutions Partnership Programs awarded grants. The funds totaled $40.9 million to minority-serving institutions.

UAPB Vice Chancellor of Research and Innovation, Mansour Mortazavi, represents UAPB with a SEEP-IT Project Working Group. UAPB participants include Perry Williams (undergraduate), Brooke Davis (undergraduate), Andria Ellis (graduate student), Ariel Gary (undergraduate), Jaylon Ford (undergraduate), Manoj Shah, UAPB Chemistry and Physics Postdoctoral Fellow; Qinglong Jiang, UAPB Chemistry and Physics Associate Professor; and Kacey Hall (graduate student).

SEEP-IT will receive $1 million yearly for five years, a total of $5 million. Mansour Mortazavi, UAPB Vice Chancellor of Research and Innovation with expertise in optics and laser science and technology, represents UAPB as one of three universities in the SEEP-IT consortium along with UNT PACCAR Professor of Engineering Anupama Kaul, principal investigator of SEEP-IT, co-principal investigator Yuankun Lin, UNT Professor of Physics. Lin conducts research in laser optics and photonic crystals and has mentored many students from underrepresented groups who are now working in leading defense firms. Others include co-principal investigator Pamela Padilla, UNT Vice President for Research and Innovation, and Weidong Zhou, a Distinguished University Professor in electrical engineering at the UTA with expertise in photonics and optoelectronics. In addition, the partnerships with the Argonne and Sandia National Labs under the DOE have their own funding, making the total funding for SEEP-IT $7.45 million.

https://www.arkansasonline.com/news/2023/sep/03/research-innovation-at-uapb-gets-a-grant/

Summer 2023

Zach, Dr. Basnet(postdoc), Dr. Shah(posdoc), Dr. Jiang, Fidaus, Ashish

2020 Featured publication on APL Mater.

2020 Engineered Science website upgraded

http://www.espublisher.com/

2020 Sunfonergy

http://www.sunfonergy.com/

SunFonergy Technology is a technology-oriented organization, primarily focused on the research, development, production, and sales of solar-related products in the cleantech industry. Our products have delivered value to our customers across the globe.

2019, keynote in San Francisco

2018, part of Academic activities

http://www.sspu.edu.cn/hjxw/49827.htm

http://www.news.uestc.edu.cn/?n=UestcNews.Front.Document.ArticlePage&Id=64610

http://hg.zzuli.edu.cn/s/95/t/162/f0/cf/info192719.htm

2018, 6, invited talk, 5th International Conference on Multi-Functional Materials and Structures (MFMS), keynote speaker, Shenyang, China.

2018.5, Engineered Science is officially online now.

http://www.espublisher.com/journal/1101.html

2018.1, publication on ACS Energy Lett. 3 (1), pp 264

Electrochemical doping was used to dope lithium into perovskite CsPbBr3 crystal. Due to the doping, diamagnetic behavior was observed with a transition temperature (Tc) of 7.17 K. Burstein–Moss effect related photoluminescence (PL) blue-shift was observed as long as 15 nm. UV–vis-NIR spectra indicate that the absorption has been enhanced. The doped CsPbBr3 crystal generated 8 nA photocurrent, which is higher than the undoped CsPbBr3 crystal.

2018. 1, invited talk in Si Chuan University and Zheng Zhou University, China.

2017. 10, invited talk in Huazhong University of Science and Technology, China.

http://www.fangfangligroup.com/nd.jsp?id=55&groupId=-1

2017. 10, invited talk in Jiangsu University of Science and Technology (JUST), China.

http://www.swust.edu.cn/2017/1016/c208a18678/page.htm

2017. 10, invited talk in Southwest University of Science and Technology, China.

http://www.swust.edu.cn/2017/1016/c208a18678/page.htm

Editorial Board: Advanced Composites and Hybrid Materials

http://www.springer.com/materials/special+types/journal/42114?detailsPage=editorialBoard

2017.5, Argonne National Lab User Meeting, S3: Speed Science Slam-Halide Perovskite and LED

https://usersmeeting.conference.anl.gov/files/program-book/Comprehensive%20Program.pdf

2015, 3, 249th ACS National Meeting & Exposition, Denver, CO, Oral presentation selected for ACS Presentations on Demand:

https://presentations.acs.org/common/media-player.aspx/Spring2015/ENFL/ENFL010c/2130910

2015

Pseudohalide-Induced Moisture Tolerance in Perovskite CH3NH3Pb(SCN)2I Thin Films

Angew. Chem. Int. Edit. 2015, 54, 7617-7620, very important paper

Two pseudohalide thiocyanate ions (SCN−) have been used to replace two iodides in CH3NH3PbI3, and the resulting perovskite material was used as the active material in solar cells. In accelerated stability tests, the CH3NH3Pb(SCN)2I perovskite films were shown to be superior to the conventional CH3NH3PbI3 films as no significant degradation was observed after the film had been exposed to air with a relative humidity of 95 % for over four hours, whereas CH3NH3PbI3 films degraded in less than 1.5 hours. Solar cells based on CH3NH3Pb(SCN)2I thin films exhibited an efficiency of 8.3 %, which is comparable to that of CH3NH3PbI3 based cells fabricated in the same way.

Yahoo: Super efficient perovskites are dazzling solar cell researchers

http://finance.yahoo.com/news/super-efficient-perovskites-dazzling-solar-212414295.html

Solarnovus: Cheaper Perovskite Solar Cells with Earth Abundant Nickel Cathode

http://www.solarnovus.com/cheaper-perovskite-solar-cells-with-nickel-cathode_N8376.html

Harnessing the sun

https://www.niutoday.info/2014/11/18/harnessing-the-sun/

2014

Rutile TiO2 nanowire-based perovskite solar cellsChem. Commun. 2014, 50, 14720-14723, inside front cover page

Different lengths of rutile TiO2 nanowires (NW) with wide-open space for effective material filling were used as photoanodes for perovskite solar cells. Cells with 900 nm nanowires as photoanodes exhibit a current density of 22 mA cm−2 and an efficiency of 11.7%, outperforming the reported TiO2 nanowire-based perovskite solar cells.

2013, 8, 246th ACS National Meeting & Exposition, Indianapolis, IN, Oral presentation: Solid-state Electrochromic (EC) Devices Based on 3-D Nanoporous FTO Electrodes.

http://acselb-529643017.us-west-2.elb.amazonaws.com/chem/246nm/program/view.php