Industry
The Center for Interface Science: Solar Electric Materials (CISSEM) is actively seeking opportunities to interact or collaborate with industry. To explore possibilities please contact us by email at efrc@cbc.arizona.edu.
Our interactions with industrial sponsors complement our basic research, helping to advance thin-film technologies, and providing CISSEM’s graduate students and postdoctoral research associates with outstanding training opportunities.
Research at CISSEM addresses the basic science of interfacial processes that allows us to understand, modify, and control critical interfacial regions in emerging thin-film photovoltaic solar cell platforms at nanometer length scales. Interfacial processes occurring at organic/metal oxide, organic/metal and metal oxide/metal oxide interfaces are the focus of CISSEM’s collaborative and synergistic research efforts.
Collaborative research projects currently underway at CISSEM for thin-film PV include:
- developing new theories of charge transfer at metal oxide/organic and metal/organic interfaces which underpin our understanding of interface science
- identifying and characterizing charge-selective interlayers based on transition metal oxides
- investigating earth-abundant transparent conducting oxides which can replace indium-tin oxide as the transparent contact
- characterizing and developing polymers, dipolar organic small molecules, and redox active molecules to modify the surface and interfacial charge transfer properties of thin-film metal oxides and metals.
This research creates future energy scientists with a specialization in interface science, who will support the growth of the U.S. renewable energy portfolio.
