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Since dissipative processes are ubiquitous in semiconductors, characterizing how electronic and thermal energy transduce and transport at the nanoscale is vital for understanding and leveraging their fundamental properties. For example, in…
The interaction of exciton and charge transfer (CT) states plays a central role in photo-induced CT processes in chemistry, biology and physics. In this work, we use a combination of two-dimensional electronic spectroscopy (2D-ES),…
Carrier multiplication (CM), a photo-physical process to generate multiple electron-hole pairs by exploiting excess energy of free carriers, is explored for efficient photovoltaic conversion of photons from the blue solar band,…
While being extensively studied as an important physical process to alter exciton population in nanostructures at fs time scale, carrier multiplication has not been considered seriously as a major mechanism for phase transition. Real-time…
Exciton and polaron pair dissociation is a key functional aspect of photovoltaic devices. To improve upon the current state of interfacial transport models, we augment the existing classical models of dielectric interfaces by incorporating…
Chemical vapor deposition (CVD) allows lateral edge epitaxy of transition metal dichalcogenide heterostructures with potential applications in optoelectronics. Critical for carrier and exciton transport is the quality of the two materials…
Modeling the charge-generation process is highly important to understand device physics and optimize power conversion efficiency of bulk-heterojunction (BHJ) organic solar cells (OSCs). Free carriers are generated by both ultrafast exciton…
Hot carrier effect, a phenomenon where charge carriers generated by photon absorption remain energetic by not losing much energy, has been one of the leading strategies in increasing solar cell efficiency. Nanostructuring offers an…
In order to provide the best possible performance, modern infrared photodetector designs necessitate extremely precise modeling of the superlattice absorber region. We advance the Rode's method for the Boltzmann transport equation in…