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NIST Neutron Source Preconceptual Design

October 5, 2022
Author(s)
Dagistan Sahin, Osman Celikten, Robert Williams, Jeremy Cook, Abdullah Weiss, Thomas Newton, David Diamond, Charles F. Majkrzak, Hubert King, Joy Shen, Anil Gurgen, Eliezer Nahmani, Idan Baroukh, Lap-Yan Cheng
The National Bureau of Standards Reactor (NBSR) at the NIST Center for Neutron Research (NCNR) provides a safe and reliable neutron source for the thousands of visiting U.S. and international researchers annually. A new state-of-the-art research reactor

Visualizing Localized, Radiative Defects in GaAs Solar Cells

September 1, 2022
Author(s)
Behrang Hamadani, Margaret Stevens, Brianna Conrad, Matthew Lumb, Kenneth Schmieder
We have used a calibrated, wide-field hyperspectral imaging instrument to obtain absolute spectrally and spatially resolved photoluminescence images in high growth-rate, rear-junction GaAs solar cells from 300 K to 77 K. At the site of some localized

Color-Temperature Dependence of Indoor Organic Photovoltaic Performance

March 5, 2022
Author(s)
Boya Zhang, Justin Bonner, Lakshmi Murthy, Thien Nguyen, Fong-Yi Cao, Yen-Ju Cheng, Behrang Hamadani, Julia Hsu
Organic materials are uniquely suited for indoor light energy harvesting because they absorb mostly in the visible spectrum and the absence of ultraviolet light minimizes their degradation. However, the performance of photovoltaic devices under indoor

Heterosubstrate Illumination Effects in III-V Solar Cells

February 16, 2022
Author(s)
Brianna Conrad, Behrang Hamadani
Reference cell-based current versus voltage ( I–V ) measurements assume that the effect of an illumination spectrum on a solar cell's performance can be fully captured by the multiplication of the spectrum with the device's spectral response and subsequent

Non-fullerene acceptors with direct and indirect hexa-fluorination afford > 17% efficiency in polymer solar cells

December 22, 2021
Author(s)
Subhrangsu Mukherjee, Guoping Li, Liang-Wen Feng, Leighton Jones, Robert Jacobberger, Wei Huang, Ryan Young, Robert Pankow, Weigang Zhu, Norman Lu, Kevin Kohlstedt, Vinod Sangwan, Michael Wasielewski, Mark Hersam, George Schatz, Dean DeLongchamp, Antonio Facchetti, Tobin Marks
The rational molecular design of non-fullerene acceptors (NFAs) in organic solar cells (OSCs) can profoundly influence the photovoltaic (OPV) performance. To date, NFA fluorination has proven beneficial to cell performance. However, there is a lack of

Systematically Controlling Acceptor Fluorination Optimizes Hierarchical Morphology, Vertical Phase Separation, and Efficiency in Non-Fullerene Organic Solar Cells

November 21, 2021
Author(s)
Guoping Li, Xiaohua Zhang, Subhrangsu Mukherjee, Wei Huang, Ding Zheng, Liang-Wen Feng, Yao Chen, Jianglin Wu, Vinod Sangwan, Mark Hersam, Dean DeLongchamp, Junsheng Yu, Antonio Facchetti, Tobin Marks
Non-fullerene acceptor (NFA) end group (EG) functionalization, especially by fluorination, affects not only the energetics but also the morphology of bulk-heterojunction (BHJ) organic solar cell (OSC) active layers, thereby influencing the power conversion

Superhydrophilic porous transport layer enhances effciency of polymer electrolyte membrane electrolyzers

October 20, 2021
Author(s)
Benzhong Zhao, ChungHyuk Lee, Jason K. Lee, Kieran F. Fahy, Jacob LaManna, Elias Baltic, David Jacobson, Daniel Hussey, Aimy Bazylak
Hydrogen is widely regarded as a promising vehicle for renewable energy storage due to its versatility and high energy density. A prominent technology for hydrogen generation is the polymer electrolyte membrane (PEM) electrolyzer, which decomposes liquid

High Aspect Ratio Ag Nanowire Mat Electrodes for Electrochemical CO production from CO2

September 13, 2021
Author(s)
David Raciti, Trevor Braun, Brian M. Tackett, Heng Xu, Mutya Cruz, Benjamin Wiley, Thomas Moffat
An interconnected network of high-aspect ratio Ag nanowires was pressed against porous gas diffusion layers (both conductive or non-conductive) to use as a gas diffusion electrode (GDE) for the electrochemical reduction of CO2 to CO. Varying the amount of

Side Chain Engineering Control of Mixed Conduction in Oligoethylene Glycol-Substituted Polythiophenes

August 31, 2021
Author(s)
Jonathan Onorato, Zhongyang Wang, Yangyang Sun, Christian Nowak, Ban Dong, Lucas Flagg, Ruipeng Li, Lee J. Richter, Fernando Escobedo, Paul Nealey, Shrayesh Patel, Christine Luscombe
A major limitation for polymeric mixed ionic/electronic conductors (MIECs) is the trade-off between ionic and electronic conductivity; changes made that improve one typically hinder the other. In order to address this fundamental problem, this work

Investigating Sub-bandgap Spectral Effects in GaInP-on-Ge Solar Cells

August 26, 2021
Author(s)
Brianna Conrad, Behrang Hamadani
There is a fundamental understanding in photovoltaics that sub-bandgap light will not be absorbed in the solar cell and therefore will not affect the power generation. We have shown a novel phenomenon in which sub-bandgap illumination is required for good

Real-Time Signal Processing for Mitigating SiPM Dark Noise Effects in a Scintillating Neutron Detector

July 19, 2021
Author(s)
Kevin N. Pritchard, Jean Philippe Chabot, R. Robucci, F. S. Choa, A. Osovizky, Jeffrey B. Ziegler, Louis E. Binkley, Peter Tsai, Nancy Hadad, M. Jackson, C. Hurlbut, George M. Baltic, Charles Majkrzak, Nicholas C. Maliszewskyj
A 6LiF:ZnS(Ag) based cold neutron detector with wavelength shifting (WLS) fibers and SiPM photodetector was developed at the NIST Center for Neutron Research. For neutron scattering applications at the NCNR, detector false positives severely diminish the

Coulombically-stabilized oxygen hole polarons enable fully reversible oxygen redox

July 1, 2021
Author(s)
Iwnetim I. Abate, Chaitanya D. Pemmaraju, Se-Young Kim, Sami Sainio, Brian Moritz, John Vinson, Michael F. Toney, Wanli Yang, William E. Gent, Thomas P. Devereaux, Linda F. Nazar, William C. Chueh
Stabilizing high-valent redox couples and exotic electronic states necessitates an understanding of the stabilization mechanism. In oxides, whether they are being considered for energy storage or computing, highly oxidized oxide-anion species rehybridize
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