Presentation
21 August 2020 Watching and controlling energy transport in dense materials on nanometer scales
Shan-Wen Cheng, Vicky Su, Ding Xu, Milan Delor
Author Affiliations +
Abstract
The ability of energy carriers to move within and between atoms and molecules underlies virtually all material function. Understanding and controlling energy flow requires observing it on ultrasmall and ultrafast spatiotemporal scales, where energetic and structural roadblocks dictate the fate of energy carriers. I will describe a new optical ultrafast microscope based on stroboscopic elastic scattering that allows direct visualization of energy carrier transport in 3D with few-nm spatial precision and picosecond temporal resolution. I will demonstrate the wide applicability of the method for watching all forms of energy carriers – free charges, excitons, phonons and ions – move in materials ranging from silicon to conjugated polymers via 2D transition metal dichalcogenides and metal halide perovskites. Beyond quantifying carrier mobilities, our approach directly correlates material resistivities to local morphology, shedding light on how disorder affects transport pathways in 3D.
Conference Presentation
© (2020) COPYRIGHT Society of Photo-Optical Instrumentation Engineers (SPIE). Downloading of the abstract is permitted for personal use only.
Shan-Wen Cheng, Vicky Su, Ding Xu, and Milan Delor "Watching and controlling energy transport in dense materials on nanometer scales", Proc. SPIE 11464, Physical Chemistry of Semiconductor Materials and Interfaces XIX, 114640H (21 August 2020); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2569155
Advertisement
Advertisement
KEYWORDS
Solar energy

Electrons

Scattering

Excitons

Ions

Microscopy

Perovskite

Back to Top