Renewable Energy Materials and Devices Lab

We are an interdisciplinary research team at Arizona State University led by Professor Nick Rolston.

We study the connection between material degradation in printable thin-film energy materials and devices with the evolution of mechanical and environmental stress. We leverage scalable, open-air deposition methods to fabricate robust energy devices toward the goal of manufacturing. We use thin-film metrologies along with newly developed and custom-built equipment to characterize material properties and reliability on length scales from angstroms to meters.

Our focus is to develop the next-generation of photovoltaics and battery technology using the paradigm of design for reliability.

March 2024 – Congrats to Carsen, Vineeth, Kay, Muneeza, Mason, and Charles for publishing a paper, “Scalable and Quench-Free Processing of Metal Halide Perovskites in Ambient Conditions” in Energies! Check it out here – Link to the paper

January 2024 – Congrats to Hanson, Vineeth, and Mason for publishing a paper, “All inorganic CsPbI3 perovskite solar cells with reduced mobile ion concentration and film stress” in MRS Communications! Check it out here – Link to the paper

December 2023 – Congrats to Charles for publishing a paper, “Strategies to Improve the Mechanical Robustness of Metal Halide Perovskite Solar Cells” in Energy Advances! Check it out here – Link to the paper

October 2023 – Congrats to Muneeza and Carsen for publishing a paper, “Tuning Film Stresses for Open-Air Processing of Stable Metal Halide Perovskites” in ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces! Check it out here – Link to the paper

July 2023 – Congrats to Sahal and Jie for publishing a paper, “Robust and Manufacturable Lithium Lanthanum Titanate-Based Solid-State Electrolyte Thin Films Deposited in Open Air” in ACS Omega! Check it out here – Link to the paper

June 2023 – Congrats to Vineeth and Rodrigo for publishing a paper, “Quantifying and Reducing Ion Migration in Metal Halide Perovskites through Control of Mobile Ions” in Molecules! Check it out here – Link to the paper

Renewable Energy Materials and Devices Lab

March 2024 – Congrats to Carsen, Vineeth, Kay, Muneeza, Mason, and Charles for publishing a paper, “Scalable and Quench-Free Processing of Metal Halide Perovskites in Ambient Conditions” in Energies! Check it out here – Link to the paper

January 2024 – Congrats to Hanson, Vineeth, and Mason for publishing a paper, “All inorganic CsPbI3 perovskite solar cells with reduced mobile ion concentration and film stress” in MRS Communications! Check it out here – Link to the paper

December 2023 – Congrats to Charles for publishing a paper, “Strategies to Improve the Mechanical Robustness of Metal Halide Perovskite Solar Cells” in Energy Advances! Check it out here – Link to the paper

October 2023 – Congrats to Muneeza and Carsen for publishing a paper, “Tuning Film Stresses for Open-Air Processing of Stable Metal Halide Perovskites” in ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces! Check it out here – Link to the paper

July 2023 – Congrats to Sahal and Jie for publishing a paper, “Robust and Manufacturable Lithium Lanthanum Titanate-Based Solid-State Electrolyte Thin Films Deposited in Open Air” in ACS Omega! Check it out here – Link to the paper

June 2023 – Congrats to Vineeth and Rodrigo for publishing a paper, “Quantifying and Reducing Ion Migration in Metal Halide Perovskites through Control of Mobile Ions” in Molecules! Check it out here – Link to the paper