Yuchen and Hugh's work published in Nature Communications!

Well done to DPhil students Yuchen Fu and Hugh Lohan, who have just published their work in Nature Communications! This work uses a combination of ultrafast spectroscopy and computations to uncover the structural and electronic factors that enable CuSbSe₂ to avoid the limitation of carrier localisation. Having band-like transport is essential to making efficient solar absorbers, but carrier localisation has been widely found in perovskite-inspired materials. This work can enable the future design of more effective photovoltaic materials that avoid this limitation. Read the paper following this link, and the press release from Oxford Chemistry following this link.  

Photograph of a thin film of CuSbSe2, held against an image of its crystal structure in the background