Chiral structures and materials interact with light in well-documented ways, but light can also interact with achiral materials to generate chirality by inscribing its asymmetric configuration on photoresponsive materials, ...

Organic photovoltaic cells incorporating a homogeneously blended amorphous active layer were fabricated using a novel glass-forming squarylium cyanine derivative (SQ-glass) as donor, and both a previously reported glass-forming ...

We report on the photovoltaic performance of novel T-Shaped Indan-1,3-dione derivatives as donors in a solution processed bulk heterojunction solar cells. Small molecule bulk heterojunction solar cells of these molecules ...

Transition-metal dichalcogenides (TMDs) exhibit unique optical and electronic properties that make them highly appealing to the scientific community. Like graphene, they have strong in-plane bonds allowing for easy fabrication ...

Background signals in particle detectors can originate from several categories of sources, including radioactivity found in the detector or its housing and cosmic radiations. High energy physics relies heavily on the use ...

Previously reported glass-forming perylenediimide (PDI-glass) and diketopyrrolopyrrole (DPP-glass) acceptors were used as ternary components to modulate the morphology and electron transport properties of bulk heterojunctions ...

A current challenge in photonics is to design new versatile photodetectors based on optical rectification induced photo-voltage; these ones are more attractive than classical photodetectors because they do not rely on band ...

Inorganic lead halide perovskite solar cells with mixed halides have achieved reasonable power conversion efficiency with the advantage of an enhanced stability. In this work, we report the fabrication of an all inorganic ...

Nonclassical states of light possess unique properties such as squeezing, antibunching, and entanglement, which have led to various interesting applications in quantum computing, quantum teleportation, and quantum ...

Ultrafast optics technology involves the development and application of femtosecond optical pulses. The work presented in this thesis consists of two research objectives which exploit these aspects of ultrafast optics ...