Functional electronic materials

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Peter Modin

In the Functional Electronic Materials unit, we conduct scientific research on state-of-the-art functional materials and nanostructures for next-generation electronic and photonic devices.

nanostructures, spintronic materials, perovskites Our aim is to obtain a better understanding of the fundamental physical properties of novel, functional materials, to manage a precise control of the material properties, and to fully explore the functionality of the studied materials for applications in future generation micro- and nano-electronics and photonics as well as in potential multifunctional devices and systems. In our research, we currently focus on a few main areas: novel spintronic materials, highly mismatched semiconductor nanostructures, complex perovskite materials and organic semiconductor materials.  

We conduct our research by means of a large array of state-of-the-art optical, magneto-optical and spin-resonance spectroscopic equipment, and in close collaboration with researchers world-wide.

Highlights

Publications

2023

2022

Tiankai Zhang, Feng Wang, Hak-Beom Kim, In-Woo Choi, Chuan Fei Wang, Eunkyung Cho, Rafal Konefal, Yuttapoom Puttisong, Kosuke Terado, Libor Kobera, Mengyun Chen, Mei Yang, Sai Bai, Bowen Yang, Jiajia Suo, Shih-Chi Yang, Xianjie Liu, Fan Fu, Hiroyuki Yoshida, Weimin Chen, Jiri Brus, Veaceslav Coropceanu, Anders Hagfeldt, Jean-Luc Bredas, Mats Fahlman, Dong Suk Kim, Zhang-Jun Hu, Feng Gao (2022) Ion-modulated radical doping of spiro-OMeTAD for more efficient and stable perovskite solar cells Science, Vol. 377, p. 495-501 Continue to DOI

2021

Alexander J. Gillett, Claire Tonnele, Giacomo Londi, Gaetano Ricci, Manon Catherin, Darcy M. L. Unson, David Casanova, Frederic Castet, Yoann Olivier, Weimin Chen, Elena Zaborova, Emrys W. Evans, Bluebell H. Drummond, Patrick J. Conaghan, Lin-Song Cui, Neil C. Greenham, Yuttapoom Puttisong, Frederic Fages, David Beljonne, Richard H. Friend (2021) Spontaneous exciton dissociation enables spin state interconversion in delayed fluorescence organic semiconductors Nature Communications, Vol. 12, Article 6640 Continue to DOI

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Our facilities

Optical and magneto-optical spectroscopy (2-300 K, 0-10 T, UV-IR)

CW photoluminescence (PL) spectroscopy 
CW PL excitation (PLE) spectroscopy
Time-resolved fs-ps laser spectroscopy
Magnetic circular dichroism (MCD) absorption and emission
Micro-PL and micro-Raman spectroscopy

Spin resonance spectroscopy (2-300 K)

CW and pulsed electron spin resonance (ESR) (9, 35 and 95 GHz)
CW and time-resolved optically detected magnetic resonance (ODMR) (9, 35 and 95 GHz)
Electron nuclear double resonance (ENDOR) and OD-ENDOR (9 GHz)
ESR imaging (1 and 9 GHz)

 

Cyclotron resonance (2-300 K, 9, 35 and 95 GHz)

Cyclotron resonance spectroscopy (CR)
Optically detected CR (ODCR)

Advanced STM/AFM microscopy/spectroscopy
(UHV, 9-300 K, vector-rotating magnet up to 4 T, optical and microwave access)

STM/AFM microscopy
Spin-polarized STM
Magnetic force microscopy

Raman spectroscopy 

(6-300 K, 0-5 T, UV-IR, micrometer resolution)
Electronic Raman spectroscopy
• Structural  Raman spectroscopy

Organisation