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Superconducting Materials

Robert Cava

Russell Wellman Moore Professor of Chemistry

Andlinger Center Associated Faculty

Location: A88 Frick Chemistry Laboratory
Phone Number: 609-258-0016
Email Address: rcava@princeton.edu

Research Description:

Synthesis, discovery and characterization of new superconducting, thermoelectric, and semiconducting materials.

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Iain McCulloch

Director, Andlinger Center for Energy and the Environment

Gerhard R. Andlinger '52 Professor in Energy and Environment

Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering and Andlinger Center for Energy and the Environment

Andlinger Center Executive Committee

Location: 118 Andlinger Center
Phone Number: 609-258-9340
Email Address: iain@princeton.edu

Research Description:

Iain McCulloch’s research involves the design, synthesis and development of semiconducting small molecules and polymers for use as transistors for display, solar cells and most recently biological sensing. His efforts have focused on the understanding and control of microstructure and energy levels in conjugated aromatic semiconducting polymers and the subsequent impact on device properties. This has resulted in several commercial products including lithographic formulations and printable semiconducting inks. His research continues to broaden in scope, including making important contributions in organic photovoltaics, where he is exploring new electron acceptor materials, doping effects, and fundamental optical absorption phenomena. In addition, he is developing biological sensing and electrochemical devices, which have resulted in the first demonstration of solid-state optical semiconducting sensors for measurement of cations, as well as fundamental molecular design rules of semiconducting polymers for organic electrochemical transistors. Most recently, he has discovered that organic semiconducting nanoparticle blends are efficient photocatalysts for the production of hydrogen from water and the reduction of carbon dioxide.

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Nai Phuan Ong

Eugene Higgins Professor of Physics

Andlinger Center Associated Faculty

Location: 302 Jadwin Hall
Phone Number: 609-258-4347
Email Address: npo@princeton.edu

Research Description:

Thermoelectrics, fundamental studies of superconductivity, novel superconducting and magnetic materials, topological insulators, Dirac-Weyl metals

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Ali Yazdani

James S. McDonnell Distinguished University Professor of Physics

Inaugural Co-director, Princeton Quantum Initiative

Andlinger Center Associated Faculty

Location: 384 Jadwin Hall
Phone Number: 609-258-4390
Email Address: yazdani@princeton.edu

Research Description:

Fundamental studies of the origin of superconductivity, particularly in high-temperature cuprate superconductors, to aid search for materials that exhibit superconductivity at higher temperatures; study of topological quantum states in materials  and their use for dissipation-less transport

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