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Speaker: Prof Udo Bach

ARC Centre of Excellence in Exciton Science - Monash University

Department of Chemical Engineering

Clayton, Victoria, Australia

The effects of global warming are calling for a rapid transition from fossil to renewable energy sources. New materials for energy generation and storage are required to enable this transition. In this presentation we will introduce a new research tool which introduces elements of automation and artificial intelligence to the field of materials discovery. The new research platform will be hosted at the Melbourne Centre for Nanofabrication and is part of the Australian Centre for Advanced Photovoltaics. The main purpose of this installation is to accelerate the development of novel printable photovoltaic materials such as lead halide perovskites and their lead-free analogues, it is however also applicable towards the discovery of energy materials more broadly. It entails three integrated robotic sections. The first allows to formulate inks from liquid and solid chemical precursors, the second section allows to produce thin films from these inks via solution processing techniques and the third section hosts a number of characterization tools to determine the optical, electronic and structural properties of these films. The entire system operates under inert gas atmosphere with a clock speed of 5 minutes and the ability to operate autonomously for 24 hours. 

Biography

Dr. Udo Bach is a full professor at Monash University and the Monash Node Leader of the ARC Centre of Excellence in Exciton Science. He received his PhD from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (EPFL, Switzerland) working in the research group of Prof Michael Grätzel and worked for 3 years in a technology start-up company in Dublin (Ireland). Subsequently he spent 1 year as a postdoc in the group of Prof. Paul Alivisatos in UC Berkeley (USA) before moving to Monash University in November 2005 to establish his own research group. Prof Bach has a strong background in the area of photovoltaics and nanofabrication. His research is focused on perovskites, lead-free absorbers and high-throughput materials discovery.

A free one-hour tour of the capabilities of the Royce Institute's Electrical Characterisation Suite within the Department of Electrical Engineering at the University of Cambridge. Discover more about this open access equipment and Royce funding opportunities for your research.

This equipment can be used to characterise devices in detail both at wafer level and in packaged form enabling the enhancement of product performance.

This suite includes: a Cascade Tesla, 200 mm, high voltage, high current semiautomatic probe station, a Keysight B1505A Semiconductor Parametric Analyser/Curve Tracer, number of stand-alone, high precision Source Measure Units (SMUs) and a high voltage capable, Keysight 2 GHz Oscilloscope.

This set of equipment allows testing and characterisation of devices and materials in wafer, die or packaged forms, very accurately from -55 °C to +300 °C. Ratings of the equipment are up to 200 A and 3 kV for wafer level measurements using the probe station and 0.01 fA to 1500 A and 10 kV for packaged samples. B1505A also has C-V capability from 1 kHz to 5 MHz with a combined DC voltage rating of 3 kV. The oscilloscope with the high voltage probe can capture switching transients up to 4 kV.

For more information about Royce Facilities at Cambridge please contact royce@maxwell.cam.ac.uk and see our full equipment listing at: https://www.maxwell.cam.ac.uk/programmes/henry-royce-institute

A free one-hour tour of the Royce Institute's Magnetic Property Management System in the Maxwell Centre at the University of Cambridge.

If your research interests require detailed measurements of advanced functional magnetic materials, devices, and circuits, in which magnetic,
electronic, optical and thermal properties are strongly coupled the Quantum Design cryogen-free Magnetic Property Measurement System (MPMS) may be of interest. The MPMS has an operational temperature range of 1.8-400 K, 7 Tesla magnet, and modules for the application of multiple external fields, including: magnetic, electric, mechanical, thermal, and optical fields.

The system has a magnetic moment sensitivity of better than 10-8 emu and enables detailed, long-duration, measurements and testing of magnetic phenomena in materials and devices that exhibit a strong coupling between their magnetic and electronic/thermal/optical properties.

This tour will give an overview of the capabilities of the Magnetic Property Management System as well as information on booking, funding opportunities and the work of the Royce Institute.

Additionally tours of the Royce Magnetic Property Management System and the High Vacuum and the Environmental XPS will also be taking place at this time at the Maxwell Centre. If you're interested please book a tour for these facilities here;

Magnetic Property Management System https://app.tickettailor.com/events/roycecambridge/1202721

High Vacuum and the Environmental XPS https://app.tickettailor.com/events/roycecambridge/1202754

For more information about Royce Facilities at Cambridge please contact royce@maxwell.cam.ac.uk and see our full equipment listing at: https://www.maxwell.cam.ac.uk/programmes/henry-royce-institute

A free one-hour tour of the Royce Institute's Ambient Processing Cluster Tool Facility in the Maxwell Centre at the University of Cambridge.

The Royce Institute's Ambient Processing Cluster Tool is a custom-built glovebox cluster tool that integrates different vacuum and liquid-based deposition technologies for a wide range of functional materials into a common inert glove box atmosphere. It comprises ten glove box modules that are interconnected by a semi-automated inert atmosphere transfer system and includes Pulsed Laser Deposition (PLD), Atomic Layer Deposition (ALD), Aerosol Jet Printing, Slot Die Coating, Organic Thermal Evaporator, Perovskite/Hybrid Evaporator, as well as modules for metrology, thin film encapsulation and packaging.

This open access tool can be used by both academia and industry and gives access to a wide range of functional materials, including transition metal oxides for battery and other applications, organic and hybrid organic-inorganic semiconductors, two-dimensional materials, polymer composites and other associated materials.

Its unique configuration allows integration of these different classes of materials into novel hetero-architectures and but also fabrication of a wide range of devices including solar cells, batteries, mechanical or thermoelectric energy harvesters as well as integrated energy systems for energy–efficient ICT applications.

This tour will give an overview of the capabilities of the Ambient Processing Cluster Tool as well as information on booking, funding opportunities and the work of the Royce Institute.

Additionally tours of the Royce Magnetic Property Management System and the High Vacuum and Environmental XPS will also be taking place at this time at the Maxwell Centre. If you're interested please book a tour for these facilities here;

Magnetic Property Management System https://app.tickettailor.com/events/roycecambridge/1202721

Environmental XPS and the High Vacuum XPS https://app.tickettailor.com/events/roycecambridge/1202754

For more information about Royce Facilities at Cambridge please contact royce@maxwell.cam.ac.uk and see our full equipment listing at: https://www.maxwell.cam.ac.uk/programmes/henry-royce-institute

A free one-hour tour of the Royce Institute's Environmental XPS and the High Vacuum  XPS in the Maxwell Centre at the University of Cambridge.

The ultra high-vacuum photoemission instrument, an Escalab 250Xi runs alongside the near ambient pressure (NAP) X-ray photoemission
spectroscopy (XPS) system as a combined joint facility, their capabilities are:

• X-ray photoemission spectroscopy (XPS) for chemical analysis of surfaces under inert, UHV conditions
• Ultra-violet photoemission spectroscopy (UPS) for measurements of valence bands and work functions with a 21.2eV excitation source
• Angle resolved x-ray photoemission spectroscopy (ARXPS) by varying the angle that the sample is held at and in this way varying the analysis depth down to a few nanometers. This is a non-destructive technique.
•  Depth profiling x-ray photoemission spectroscopy (DPXPS) which combines a sequence of argon ion gun etch cycles with XPS analysis. This is a destructive technique.

This tour will give an overview of the capabilities of the Environmental XPS and the high Vacuum XPS as well as information on booking, funding opportunities and the work of the Royce Institute.

Additionally tours of the Royce Magnetic Property Management System and the Ambient Processing Cluster Tool will also be taking place at this time at the Maxwell Centre. If you're interested please book a tour for these facilities here;

Ambient Processing Cluster Tool https://app.tickettailor.com/events/roycecambridge/1202524

Magnetic Property Management System https://app.tickettailor.com/events/roycecambridge/1202721

For more information about Royce Facilities at Cambridge please contact royce@maxwell.cam.ac.uk and see our full equipment listing at: https://www.maxwell.cam.ac.uk/programmes/henry-royce-institute