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Red blue phase platelets
Banner image: red 'blue phase' platelets I observed under crossed polarisers during an undergraduate summer research project in Cambridge. My first taste of academic research!

Dr Adam Wright

Postdoctoral Researcher

Research theme

  • Photovoltaics and nanoscience

Sub department

  • Condensed Matter Physics

Research groups

  • Semiconductors group
  • Terahertz photonics
adam.wright@physics.ox.ac.uk
Telephone: 01865 (2)72339
Clarendon Laboratory, room 146,145,147,245
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I've been in the Herz and Johnston groups since 2015, having done my DPhil work here and continuing on as a postdoc studying metal halide perovskites, a class of materials which have recently achieved remarkable success in solar cells. The rapid rate of improvement in the efficiencies of perovskite-based devices has however often outpaced understanding of the electronic processes occurring within these semiconductor materials. My work is concerned with providing insight into the factors influencing electron motion and recombination in a series of hybrid metal halide perovskites, principally using photoluminescence spectroscopy. Such knowledge is essential for the development of higher-performance perovskite-based devices.

My equipment of choice is an iCCD/TCSPC photoluminescence spectroscopy system, but I have dabbled in FTIR spectroscopy and computational modelling of materials. Outside the department, I am a Stipendiary Lecturer in Physics at Corpus Christi College. My personal interests include tennis, running and augmented-reality games.

I represent the Condensed Matter Physics sub-department on the Physics Post Doc Liaison Committe (PDLC).

Research interests

Condensed Matter Physics
Perovskite Solar Cells
Photoluminescence
Light-Matter Interactions

Selected publications

Intrinsic quantum confinement in formamidiniumlead triiodide perovskite

Nature Materials Nature Research 19 (2020) 1201-1206
Adam D Wright, George Volonakis, Juliane Borchert, Michael Johnston, Laura Herz

Ultrafast excited-state localization in Cs2AgBiBr6 double perovskite

Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters American Chemical Society 12:13 (2021) 3352-3360
Adam Wright, Leonardo RV Buizza, Kimberley Savill, Giulia Longo, Henry Snaith, Michael Johnston, Laura Herz

Band-tail recombination in hybrid lead iodide perovskite

Advanced Functional Materials Wiley (2017)
AD Wright, Rebecca L Milot, GE Eperon, Henry J Snaith, Laura Johnston, Michael B Herz

Electron–phonon coupling in hybrid lead halide perovskites

Nature Communications Nature Publishing Group: Nature Communications 7 (2016)
Adam DM Wright, Laura M Herz, Rebecca L Milot, Carla Verdi, Michael B Johnston, Giles E Eperon, Henry J Snaith, Feliciano Giustino, Miguel A Perez-Osorio
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