Publications

@article{Austin2025-dm,

title = {Inkjet printing of heterostructures: Investigation and  strategies for control of interfaces},

author = {Jonathan S Austin and Yundong Zhou and Geoffrey Rivers and Negar Gilani and Feiran Wang and Christopher J Tuck and Ian S Gilmore and Richard J M Hague and Gustavo F Trindade and Lyudmila Turyanska},

doi = {10.1021/acsami.4c21170},

year  = {2025},

date = {2025-03-01},

urldate = {2025-03-01},

journal = {ACS Appl. Mater. Interfaces},

volume = {17},

number = {11},

pages = {17230\textendash17237},

publisher = {American Chemical Society (ACS)},

abstract = {Development of printed electronics requires understanding and 

 control of the interfaces in heterostructure devices. However, 

 investigation of the interfaces between dissimilar materials to 

 achieve control of intermixing presents challenges. Here, we 

 report investigation of interfaces in inkjet printed 

 heterostructures by time-of-flight secondary ion mass 

 spectrometry (ToF-SIMS), focused ion beam scanning electron 

 microscopy (FIB-SEM), and energy dispersive X-ray (EDX) analysis 

 to provide complementary insights into the intermixing 

 phenomena. By examining various heterostructures of 0D (CsPbBr3 

 nanocrystal), 2D (inkjet printed graphene, iGr), and polymeric 

 (PEDOT:PSS) materials deposited with different printing 

 parameters, we established the effect of ink composition and 

 printing parameters on the intermixing depth. We demonstrated 

 that in the heterostructures where the intermixing is dominated 

 by layer porosity, the intermixing depth does not affect the 

 electrical properties of the device, while intermixing by layer 

 redispersion results in the decrease of the effective layer 

 thickness accompanied by an increase of electrical resistance. 

 The strategy for control over the interfacial composition and 

 morphology in printed heterostructures could enable improved 

 design and performance of printed devices.},

keywords = {graphene, heterostructures, inkjet printing, multimaterial, PEDOT:PSS, perovskite CsPbBr3},

pubstate = {published},

tppubtype = {article}

}

@article{Feng2021-bt,

title = {Plasmonic and graphene-functionalized high-performance broadband 

 quasi-two-dimensional perovskite hybrid photodetectors},

author = {Fu Feng and Tao Wang and Jie Qiao and Changjun Min and Xiaocong Yuan and Michael Somekh},

year  = {2021},

date = {2021-12-01},

journal = {ACS Appl. Mater. Interfaces},

volume = {13},

number = {51},

pages = {61496\textendash61505},

publisher = {American Chemical Society (ACS)},

abstract = {Quasi-two-dimensional (2D) layered organic-inorganic hybrid 

 perovskites have attracted extensive attention, owing to their 

 excellent optoelectronic tunability and moisture stability 

 compared with three-dimensional perovskite counterparts and show 

 great potential for application in photodetectors (PDs). 

 However, owing to the unavoidable grain boundary defects of 

 perovskite polycrystalline films, the photocurrent is limited by 

 poor light absorption and charge mobility. Therefore, the 

 preparation of quasi-2D perovskite films with strong light 

 trapping and high charge mobility has been challenging. In this 

 study, novel broadband quasi-2D perovskite (BA)2(FA)n-1PbnI3n+1 

 hybrid-structure PDs with good stability were fabricated by 

 combining both monolayer graphene and Au square nanoarrays. The 

 hybrid system using both graphene and Au square nanoarrays 

 effectively improved the carrier mobility and light absorption 

 and simultaneously maximized light trapping and light-induced 

 carrier extraction, which resulted in PDs with greatly enhanced 

 photocurrent in the visible and near-infrared range. The 

 graphene-Au array-perovskite-based PDs had a low dark current of 

 10-10 A, large on/off ratio of 104, high responsivity of 18.71 A 

 W-1, and detectivity of 2.21 $times$ 1013 Jones. The 

 responsivity and detectivity were two orders of magnitude higher 

 than those of PDs based only on perovskites. This work 

 demonstrates a promising and feasible device based on the 

 coupling of a gold array, layered graphene, and quasi-2D 

 perovskites, which shows great potential for the development of 

 high-performance broadband perovskite PDs.},

keywords = {film, graphene, light trapping, photodetector, plasmonic, quasi-2D perovskite},

pubstate = {published},

tppubtype = {article}

}