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sci-ku
forbidden transitions
guide light through hidden pathways.
new TCs await?
citation
Woods-Robinson, R., Xiong, Y., Shen, J. X., Winner, N., Horton, M. K., Asta, M., Ganose, A.M., Hautier, G., Persson, K. A. (2023). Designing transparent conductors using forbidden optical transitions. Matter, 6(9), 3021-3039. DOI: 10.1016/j.matt.2023.06.043. Preprint: https://arxiv.org/abs/2303.16994
sci-ku
are screenings reduced
by just looking at compounds?
let’s search alloys too.
citation
Woods-Robinson, R., Horton, M. K., & Persson, K. A. (2023). A method to computationally screen for tunable properties of crystalline alloys. Patterns, 4, 100723. DOI: 10.1016/j.patter.2023.100723. Preprint: https://arxiv.org/abs/2206.10715.
sci-ku
world’s mess: needs science…
but there’s a divide between
STEM-ists* and STEM ed
most outreach: cities
most kids: don’t know a STEM-ist
low literacy
but if each STEM-ist
spent 1 hour a year in schools
each kid would meet three!
we propose the
Federal Science Project:
help bridge the divide!
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Vetri, V.,* Woods-Robinson, R.,* Case, E., Warner, I., Poppiti, A., Abramowitz, B. (2021). The Federal Science Project: A Scientist in Every Classroom. Journal of Science Policy & Governance, 1(3). DOI: https://doi.org/10.38126/JSPG180308 (*=equal contribution)
sci-ku
scientists predict
new crystals that do cool stuff…
but can we grow them?
test case: new nitride.
expect stable “wurtsalt” phase.
we grow rocksalt! why?!
disorder matters!
off-stoichiometry too.
try our new methods
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Woods-Robinson, R., Stevanović, V., Lany, S., Heinselman, K., Persson, K.A., Zakutayev, A. (2021). The role of disorder in the synthesis of metastable ternary nitrides. Physical Review Materials, 6(4), 043804. DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevMaterials.6.043804. Preprint: https://arxiv.org/abs/2012.12455
sci-ku
silicon solar
needs a better hole contact.
how to design one?
calcs show many ways!
tune doping: shifts band edge range.
vice versa. Lab time…
...nickel oxide failed😵
but our design rules can guide
the next pawn’s research ♟😉
citation
Woods-Robinson, R., Fioretti, A. N., Haschke, J., Boccard, M., Persson, K. A., Ballif, C. (2020). Evaluating Materials Design Parameters of Hole-Selective Contacts for Silicon Heterojunction Solar Cells. IEEE Journal of Photovoltaics, 11(2), 247-258. DOI: 10.1109/JPHOTOV.2020.3038330.
tl;dr
We use a semiconductor alloy of copper, zinc, and sulfur as a new contact layer in cadmium telluride (CdTe) solar cells, and explore the performance and the underlying physics.
sci-ku
new PV contact
works well with CdTe despite
funky interface
citation
Woods-Robinson, R., Ablekim, T., Norman, A., Johnston, S., Persson, K. A., Reese, M. O., Metzger, W. K., Zakutayev, A. (2020). Sputtered p-type CuxZn1-xS Back Contact to CdTe Solar Cells. ACS Applied Energy Materials, 3(6), 5427-5438. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1021/acsaem.0c00413.
tl;dr
We review a bunch of different materials made from sulfur (S), selenium (Se), and tellurium (Te) anions (these materials are called chalcogenides) that are unique because they are both transparent to visible light (wide band gap) and conductive to electricity (semiconductors). This combination of properties is rare in nature but is really useful in solar cells, LEDs, transparent electronics, and water splitting, among other energy appications.
sci-ku
TC”O”, you say?
Meet the wide gap non-oxides!
Both n and p type.
We review some here.
For new thin films, devices?
Solar … and beyond!
citation
Woods-Robinson, R., Han, Y., Zhang, H., Ablekim, T., Khan, I., Persson, K. A., Zakutayev, A. (2020). Wide Band Gap Chalcogenide Semiconductors. Chemical Reviews, 120(9), 4007–4055. DOI: 10.1021/acs.chemrev.9b00600.
tl;dr
We grow an emerging new material that's transparent to visible light and conductive to holes, map out phase changes as a function of composition and properties (we find a metastable alloy!), and contextualize findings with other literature reports.
sci-ku
Sulfide alloy map
shows phase change, p-TC zone.
New design approach?
citation
Woods-Robinson, R., Han, Y., Mangum, J. S., Melamed, C.L., Gorman, B. P., Mehta, A., Persson, K. A., Zakutayev, A. (2019). Combinatorial Tuning of Structural and Optoelectronic Properties in CuxZn1-xS. Matter, 1(4), 862–880. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.matt.2019.06.019.
tl;dr
Cold moon dust. What do you know about it? Let's find out.
sci-ku
Moon dust heat transport?
Sluggish in cold pole craters.
Phonon physics wins!
citation
Woods‐Robinson, R., Siegler, M. A., Paige, D. A. (2019). A Model for the Thermophysical Properties of Lunar Regolith at Low Temperatures. Journal of Geophysical Research: Planets, 124(7), 1989–2011. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1029/2019JE005955.
Assessing High-Throughput Descriptors for Prediction of Transparent Conductors
sci-ku
Search for p-TCs.
Are screening methods valid?
Some. Not really. Yikes.
citation
Woods-Robinson, R., Broberg, D., Faghaninia, A., Jain, A., Dwaraknath, S. S., Persson, K. A. (2018). Assessing High-Throughput Descriptors for Prediction of Transparent Conductors. Chemistry of Materials, 30(22), 8375-8389. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.chemmater.8b03529.
ski-ku
My first lil paper’s
from ancient pre-sci-ku days…
Limerick instead.
(collab w/ Xiaoxi Xu)
citation
Woods-Robinson, R., Cooper, J. K., Xu, X., Schelhas, L. T., Pool, V. L., Faghaninia, A., Lo, C., Toney, M. F., Sharp, I. D., Ager III, J. W. (2016). P-type Transparent Cu-Alloyed ZnS Deposited at Room Temperature. Advanced Electronic Materials. 2(6), 1500396. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1002/aelm.201500396.
Full publication list
Woods-Robinson, R., Persson, K. A., & Zakutayev, A. (2023). Stability and synthesis across barium tin sulfide material space. Journal of Materials Chemistry A, 11(45), 24948-24958. DOI: 10.1039/D3TA04431A.
Woods-Robinson, R., Xiong, Y., Shen, Y.-X., Winner, N., Horton, M. K., Asta, M., Ganose, A. M., Hautier, G., Persson, K. A. (2023). Designing transparent conductors using forbidden optical transitions. Matter, 6(9). DOI: 10.1016/j.matt.2023.06.043. Preprint: https://arxiv.org/abs/2303.16994.
Woods-Robinson, R., Horton, M. K., & Persson, K. A. (2023). A method to computationally screen for tunable properties of crystalline alloys. Patterns, 4, 100723. DOI: 10.1016/j.patter.2023.100723. Preprint: https://arxiv.org/abs/2206.10715.
Yang, R., McCandler, C., Andriuc, O., Siron, M., Woods-Robinson, R., Horton, M., Persson, K. (2022). Big data in a nano world: a review on computational, data-driven design of nanomaterials structures, properties, and synthesis. ACS Nano, 16 (12), 19873-19891. DOI: 10.1021/acsnano.2c08411
Culman, T., Woods-Robinson, R., Mangum, J. S., Smaha, R. W., Rom, C., Zakutayev, A., & Bauers, S. R. (2022). Nitrogen stabilizes the wurtzite polymorph in ZnSe1-xTex thin films. Journal of Materials CWoods-Robinson, R., Persson, K. A., & Zakutayev, A. (2023). Stability and synthesis across barium tin sulfide material space. Journal of Materials Chemistry A, Advance Article. DOI: 10.1039/D3TA04431A.
Woods-Robinson, R., Stevanović, V., Lany, S., Heinselman, K. N., Horton, M. K., Persson, K. A., & Zakutayev, A. (2022). Role of disorder in the synthesis of metastable zinc zirconium nitrides. Physical Review Materials, 6(4), 043804. DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevMaterials.6.043804. Preprint: https://arxiv.org/abs/2012.12455.
Horton, M. K., & Woods-Robinson, R. (2021). Addressing the critical need for open experimental databases in materials science. Patterns, 2(12), 100411. DOI: 10.1016/j.patter.2021.100411.
Vetri, V.,* Woods-Robinson, R.,* Case, E., Warner, I., Poppiti, A., Abramowitz, B. (2021). The Federal Science Project: A Scientist in Every Classroom. Journal of Science Policy & Governance, 1(3). DOI: https://doi.org/10.38126/JSPG180308 (*=equal contribution)
Husein, S., Woods-Robinson, R., & Saive, R. (2021). Delayed PV Deployment Negates CO 2 Benefits of Ultra-Low Carbon PV Modules. In 2021 IEEE 48th Photovoltaic Specialists Conference (PVSC) (pp. 2403-2406). IEEE. DOI: 10.1109/PVSC43889.2021.9518474.
Ganose, A., Park, J., Faghaninia, A., R., Woods-Robinson, R., Persson, K. A., Jain, A. (2021). Efficient calculation of carrier scattering rates from first principles. Nature communications, 12(2222). DOI: 10.1038/s41467-021-22440-5. Preprint: https://arxiv.org/abs/2008.09734.
Woods-Robinson, R., Fioretti, A. N., Haschke, J., Boccard, M., Persson, K. A., Ballif, C. (2020) Evaluating Materials Design Parameters of Hole-Selective Contacts for Silicon Heterojunction Solar Cells. IEEE Journal of Photovoltaics, 11(2), 247-258. DOI: 10.1109/JPHOTOV.2020.3038330.
Woods-Robinson, R., Fioretti, A. N., Haschke, J., Boccard, M., Persson, K. A., Ballif, C. (2020). Linking simulation and synthesis of nickel oxide hole-selective contacts for silicon heterojunction solar cells. 2020 47th IEEE Photovoltaic Specialists Conference (PVSC), 0569-0573, IEEE. DOI: 10.1109/PVSC45281.2020.9300564
Greenaway, A. L., Melamed, C. L., Tellekamp, M. B., Woods-Robinson, R., Toberer, E. S., James R. Neilson, J. R., Tamboli, A. C. (2020) Chemistry, Defects, and Synthesis of Ternary Nitrides for Emerging Device Applications. Annual Review of Materials Research, 51. DOI: 10.1146/annurev-matsci-080819-012444. Preprint: https://arxiv.org/abs/2010.08058
Melamed, C. L., Pan, J., Mis, A., Heinselman, K., Schnepf, R., Woods-Robinson, R., Cordell, J., Lany, S., Toberer, E., Tamboli, A. (2020). Combinatorial investigation of structural and optical properties of cation-disordered ZnGeN2. Journal of Materials Chemistry C., 8, 8736-8746. DOI: 10.1039/D0TC01675F.
Woods-Robinson, R., Ablekim, T., Norman, A., Johnston, S., Persson, K. A., Reese, M. O., Metzger, W. K., Zakutayev, A. (2020). Sputtered p-type CuxZn1-xS Back Contact to CdTe Solar Cells. ACS Applied Energy Materials, 3(6), 5427-5438. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1021/acsaem.0c00413.
Greenaway, A., Loutris, A., Heinselman, K., Melamed, C., Schnepf, R., Tellekamp, M. B., Woods-Robinson, R., ... Zakutayev, A. (2020). Combinatorial Synthesis of Magnesium Tin Nitride Semiconductors. Journal of the American Chemical Society, 142(18), 8421-8430. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1021/jacs.0c02092.
Woods-Robinson, R.,* Han, Y.,* Zhang, H., Ablekim, T., Khan, I., Persson, K. A., Zakutayev, A. (2020). Wide Band Gap Chalcogenide Semiconductors. Chemical Reviews, 120(9), 4007–4055. DOI: 10.1021/acs.chemrev.9b00600. (*=equal contribution)
Woods-Robinson, R., Han, Y., Mangum, J. S., Melamed, C.L., Gorman, B. P., Mehta, A., Persson, K. A., Zakutayev, A. (2019). Combinatorial Tuning of Structural and Optoelectronic Properties in CuxZn1-xS. Matter, 1(4), 862–880. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.matt.2019.06.019.
Woods‐Robinson, R., Siegler, M. A., Paige, D. A. (2019). A Model for the Thermophysical Properties of Lunar Regolith at Low Temperatures. Journal of Geophysical Research: Planets, 124(7), 1989–2011. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1029/2019JE005955.
Bauers, S. R., Holder, A., Sun, W., Melamed, C. L., Woods-Robinson, R., Mangum, J., Perkins, J., Tumas, W., Gorman, B., Tamboli, A., Ceder, G., Lany, S., Zakutayev, A. (2019). Ternary Nitride Semiconductors in the Rocksalt Crystal Structure. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 116 (30) 14829-14834. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1904926116.
Talley, K. R., Mangum, J., Perkins, C. L., Woods‐Robinson, R., Mehta, A., Gorman, B. P., Brennecka, G.L., Zakutayev, A. (2019). Synthesis of Lanthanum Tungsten Oxynitride Perovskite Thin Films. Advanced Electronic Materials, 5(7), 1900214. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1002/aelm.201900214.
Woods-Robinson, R., Broberg, D., Faghaninia, A., Jain, A., Dwaraknath, S. S., Persson, K. A. (2018). Assessing High-Throughput Descriptors for Prediction of Transparent Conductors. Chemistry of Materials, 30(22), 8375-8389. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.chemmater.8b03529.
Woods-Robinson, R., Huck, P. (2018). Transparent Conductors. MPContribs. https://contribs.materialsproject.org/transparent_conductors/
Maurya, S. K., Liu, Y., Xu, X., Woods-Robinson, R., Das, C., Ager III, J. W., Balasubramaniam, K. R. (2017). High figure-of-merit p-type transparent conductor, Cu alloyed ZnS via radio frequency magnetron sputtering. Journal of Physics D: Applied Physics, 50(50), 505107. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1088/1361-6463/aa95b3.
Becker, J. J., Xu, X., Woods-Robinson, R., Campbell, C. M., Lassise, M., Ager, J., Zhang, Y. H. (2017). CuZnS hole contacts on monocrystalline CdTe solar cells. In Photovoltaic Specialist Conference (PVSC), 2017 IEEE 44th, Conference Proceedings. IEEE. 3410-3412. DOI: 10.1109/PVSC.2017.8366221.
Morales‐Masis, M., De Wolf, S., Woods‐Robinson, R., Ager, J. W., Ballif, C. (2017). Transparent Electrodes for Efficient Optoelectronics. Advanced Electronic Materials, 3(5), 1600529. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1002/aelm.201600529.
Woods-Robinson, R., Cooper, J. K., Xu, X., Schelhas, L. T., Pool, V. L., Faghaninia, A., Lo, C., Toney, M. F., Sharp, I. D., Ager III, J. W. (2016). P-type Transparent Cu-Alloyed ZnS Deposited at Room Temperature. Advanced Electronic Materials. 2(6), 1500396. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1002/aelm.201500396.
Woods-Robinson, R., Xu, X., Ager III, J. W. (2015). Low-temperature synthesized, p-type transparent conducting material for PV devices. In Photovoltaic Specialist Conference (PVSC), 2015 IEEE 42nd (pp. 1-3). IEEE. DOI: 10.1109/PVSC.2015.7355698.
Chen, L., Yang, J., Lee, L. J., Klaus, S., Woods-Robinson, R., Ma, J., Lum, Y., Cooper, J. K., Toma, F. M., Wang, L-W, Sharp, I. D., Bell, A. T., Ager III, J. W. (2015). P-type Transparent Conducting Oxide/n-type Semiconductor Heterojunctions for Efficient and Stable Solar Water Oxidation. Journal of the American Chemical Society. 137(30), 9595-9603. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1021/jacs.5b03536.
Chen, L., Yang, J., Lee, L., Klaus, S., Woods-Robinson, R., Lum, Y., Cooper, J.K., Sharp, I.D., Bell, A.T. and Ager, J.W. (2015). P-Type Transparent Conducting Oxide Protection Layers for Sustainable Photoelectrochemical Water Oxidation. ECS Transactions, 66(6), 115. DOI: 10.1149/06606.0115ecst/meta.
Woods-Robinson, R., Paige, D. A. (2014). Low Temperature Thermal Properties of Lunar Soil. Proceedings of the Lunar and Planetary Science Conference. Vol. 45.
Woods-Robinson, R. (2013). Life Cycle Assessment of a Non-Conventional Deep Insulated Single Hole (DISH) Ground Source Heat Pump and Comparison with Conventional Heating, Ventilation and Cooling Methods. Unpublished NSF REU Report.