IRG B - Recent Publications

2015
K.B. Shepard, D.A. Christie, C.L. Sosa, C.B. Arnold, R.D. Priestley, “Patchy Janus Particles with Tunable Roughness and Composition via Vapor-Assisted Deposition of Macromolecules,” Applied Physics Letters 106, 093104. [read]

C. F. Brasz, J. Yang, and C. B. Arnold, “Tilting of adjacent laser-induced liquid jets,” Micro and Nanofluid 18, 185-197. [read]

C. F. Brasz, C. B. Arnold, H. A. Stone, and J. R. Lister, “Early-time free-surface flow driven by a deforming boundary,” J. Fluid. Mech 767, 811-841. [read]

A. Dai, A. Wan, C. Magee, Y. Zhang, S. Barlow, S. R. Marder and A. Kahn, “Investigation of p-dopant diffusion in polymer films and bulk heterojunctions: stable spatially-confined doping for all-solution processed solar cells”, Org. Electr. 23, 151, DOI: 10.1016/j.orgel.2015.04.023. [read]

P. Schulz, L. Whittaker-Brooks, B. MacLeod, D. Olson, Y.-L. Loo, A. Kahn, “Electronic Level Alignment in Inverted Organometal Perovskite Solar Cells,” Advanced Materials Interfaces 2, 1400532. [read]

Y. Ren, A.M. Hiszpanski, Y.-L. Loo, “Modulating Core-Core Interactions in Axially-Functionalized Subphthalocyanines Drives Solid-State Self Assembly and Yields Crystallinity and Liquid Crystallinity,” Chemistry of Materials 27, 4008.  [read]

J.A. Spechler, K.A. Nagamatsu, J.C. Sturm, C.B. Arnold, “Improved Efficiency of Hybrid Organic Photovoltaics by Pulsed Laser Sintering of Silver Nanowire Network Transparent Electrode,” ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces 7, 10556. [read]

K.A. Nagamatsu, S. Avasthi, G. Sahasrabudhe, G. Man, J. Jhaveri, A.H. Berg, J. Schwartz, A. Kahn, S. Wagner, and J.C. Sturm, "Titanium dioxide/silicon hole-blocking selective contact to enable double-heterojunction crystalline silicon-based solar cell", Appl. Phys. Lett. 106, 123906,(2015).  doi: 10.1063/1.4916540.  [read]

L. Whittaker-Brooks, J. Gao, A.K. Hailey, C. Thomas, N. Yao, Y.L. Loo, “Bi2S3 Nanowire Networks as Electron Acceptor Layers in Solution-Processed Hybrid Solar Cells,” Journal of Materials Chemistry C 3, 2686. [read]

R.D. Priestley, D. Cangialosi, S. Napolitano. “On the Equivalence Between the Thermodynamic and Dynamic Measurement of the Glass Transition of Confined Polymer,” Journal of Non-Crystalline Solids 407, 288. [[read]

2014
K.B. Shepard, C.B. Arnold, R.D. Priestley, “Transport and Stability of Laser-Deposited Amorphous Polymer Nanoglobules,” ACS Macro Letters 3, 1046. [read]

Y. Ren, A.M. Hiszpanski, L. Whittaker-Brooks, Y.-L. Loo, “A Structure-Property Relationship Study of Substitution Effects on Isoindigo Derivatives as Electron Donors in Organic Solar Cells,” ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces 6, 14533. [read]

Y. Ren, A.K. Hailey, A.M. Hiszpanski, Y.-L. Loo, “Isoindigo-Containing Molecular Semiconductors: Effect of Backbone Extension on Molecular Organization and Solar Cell Performance,” Chemistry of Materials 26, 6570. [read]

A. Dai, A. Shu, H. Wang, S. Barlow, S. Mohapatra, T. Sajoto, Y. Zhou, C. Fuentes-Hernandezand, Y.-L. Loo, S.R. Marder, B. Kippelen, A. Kahn, “Enhanced Charge-Carrier Injection and Collection via Lamination of Doped Polymer Layers p-Doped with a Solution Processable Molybdenum Complex,” Advanced Functional Materials 24, 2197. [read]

H. Wang, J.M. Mativetsky, Y. Ren, E.D. Gomez, C. Jaye, J. Schwartz, D.A. Fischer, Y.-L. Loo, “Fluorinated and Hydrogenated Self-Assembled Monolayers (SAMs) on Anodes: Effects of SAM Chemistry of Device Characteristics of Polymer Solar Cells,” Organic Electronics 15, 3333. [read]

L. Whittaker-Brooks, W.E. McClain, J. Schwartz, Y.-L. Loo, “Donor-Acceptor Interfacial Interactions Dominate Device Performance in Hybrid P3HT-ZnO Nanowire Array Solar Cells”, Advanced Energy Materials 4, 1400585. [read]

J. Jhaveri, S. Avasthi, K. Nagamatsul, J.C. Sturm, “Stable Low-Recombination n-Si/TiO2 Hole-blocking Interface and Its Effect on Silicon Heterojunction Photovoltaics,” Technical Digest of IEEE Photovoltaic Specialist Conference 40;  DOI:10.1109/PVSC.2014.6925206. [read]

C. Lu, J. M. P. Almeida, N. Yao, and C. B. Arnold, “Fabrication of uniformly dispersed nanoparticle-doped chalcogenide glass,” Appl. Phys. Lett. 105, 261906. [[read] 

R. Liu, Y-W. Yeh, V. H. Tam, F. Qu, N. Yao, R. D. Priestley, “One-pot Stober route yields template for Ag@carbon yolk-shell nanostructures,” Chem Commun 50, 9056. [[read]


2013
J. Jhaveri, S. Avasthi, G. Man, W.E. McClain, K. Nagamatsu, A. Kahn, J. Schwartz, J.C. Sturm,  “Hole-blocking Crystalline-silicon/Titanium-oxide Heterojunction with Very Low Interface Recombination Velocity,” Technical Digest of IEEE Photovoltaic Specialists Conference 39, 3292. [read]

K. Shepard, Y. Guo, C.B. Arnold, and R.D. Priestley, “Nanostructured Morphology Of Polymer Films Prepared By Matrix Assisted Pulsed Laser Evaporation,” Appl. Phys. A, DOI:10.1007/s00339-012- 7151- 8. [read]

K. Shepard, C.B. Arnold, and R. Priestley, “Origins of Nanostructure In Amorphous Polymer Coatings via MAPLE,” Appl. Phys. Lett., 103, 123105. [read]

M. Kumar, S.E. Dutton, R.J. Cava and Z.G. Soos, “Spin-Flop And Antiferromagnetic Phases Of The Ferromagnetic Half-Twist Ladder Compounds Ba3Cu3In4O12 and Ba3Cu3Sc4O12”, J. Phys. Condens. Matter 25, 136004. [read]

S. Avasthi, W.E. McClain, G. Man, A. Kahn, J. Schwartz, and J.C. Sturm, “Hole-Blocking Titanium-Oxide/Silicon Heterojunction for Photovoltaics,” Appl. Phys. Lett., 102, 203901. [read]

W.W. McClain, P.R. Florence, A. Shu, A. Kahn, and J. Schwartz, “Surface Dipole Engineering for Conducting Polymers,” Org. Electr., 14, 411. [read]

H. Wang, E. D. Gomez, Z. Guan, C. Jaye, M. F. Toney, D. A. Fischer, A. Kahn, and Y.-L. Loo, “Tuning Contact Recombination and Open-Circuit Voltage in Polymer Solar Cells via Self-Assembled Monolayer Adsorption at the Organic-Metal Oxide Interface,” J. Phys. Chem. C, 117, 20474. [read]

H. Wang, M. Shah, C. Jaye, D.A. Fischer, V. Ganesan, M. Chabinyc, and Y.-L. Loo, “Comment on Tail State-Assisted Charge Injection and Recombination at the Electron-Collecting Interface of P3HT:PCBM Bulk-Heterojunction Polymer Solar Cells,” Adv. Energy Mater., 3, 1537. [read]

A.L. Shu, A. Dai, H. Wang, Y.-L. Loo, and A. Kahn, “Electronic Structure and Carrier Transport at Laminated Polymer Homojunctions,” Org. Electr., 14, 149. [read]

J.M. Mativetsky, H. Wang, S. Lee, L. Whittaker-Brooks, and Y.-L. Loo, “Face-On Stacking and Enhanced Out-of-Plane Hole Mobility in Graphene-Templated Copper Phthalocyanine,” Chem. Comm. Advance Article. [read]

J.B. Kim, S. Ahn, S.J. Kang, C. Nuckolls, and Y.-L. Loo, “Ligand chemistry of titania precursor affects transient photovoltaic behavior in inverted organic solar cells,” Appl. Phys. Lett., 102, 103302. [read]

L. Whittaker-Brooks, A. Woll, D. Smilgies, and Y.-L. Loo, “Sputtered ZnO Seed Layer Enhances Photovoltaic Behavior in Hybrid Zno/P3HT Solar Cells,” Org. Electron., 14, 3477. [read]

K.A. Nagamatsu, S. Avasthi, J. Jhaveri, and J.C. Sturm, “A 12% Efficient Silicon/PEDOT:PSS Heterojunction Solar Cell Fabricated at < 100 °C," IEEE J. Photovoltaics, 4, 260; DOI: 10.1109/JPHOTOV.2013.2287758. [read]