How do you solve a problem like perovskite?

December 29, 2017

As part of our year-end review of all the amazing research our partners are doing with our equipment (which you can find here), we’re sharing what 6 of our partners are doing to solve the challenges that perovskite materials present.

KAUST (King Abdullah University of Science and Technology) houses many Angstrom Engineering thin film evaporation and sputter systems in various labs, and is a hotbed for Perovskite research.

IMEC is a technology innovation hub in the European Union, and they have been pushing the perovskite envelope this year with new efficiency records. They continue to build their perovskite solving capabilities, and will be adding an epic Angstrom system in 2018.

Jinsong Huang from the University of Nebraska collaborated with this research which will increase the durability of perovskite devices utilizing a property called ‘ferroelasticity’.

Our partners at Yale are also working on perovskite, here using an organic solvent to add stability and efficiency to the solar devices.

Our next visit is to Princeton, where Barry Rand’s team is turning perovskite around to emit light instead of harvesting it. Perovskite LEDs (or KiteLEDs as we really think they should be called) have arrived!

Biwu Ma from Florida State University has shed two out three dimensions to create a 1 dimensional perovskite matrix, allowing him to build a properly functional material one block at a time.

Still curious about Perovskite? You can visit our page dedicated to the material here.

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