Monash University

Prof. Bach has a strong background in the area of photovoltaics and nanofabrication. He is involved in fundamental and applied research in the area of perovskite and dye-sensitised solar cells, and has additional research activities in the area of nanofabrication, DNA-directed self-assembly, nanoprinting, plasmonics for sensing and combinatorial photovoltaic materials discovery.

Dr. Funston’s research explores the enormous potential of hybrid inorganic/organic systems within systems designed for directed energy transfer. These include nanocrystals (metal and semiconductor), assemblies of nanocrystals, metal nanowires and nanoplates, conjugated polymers, and donor-acceptor systems, with expertise in synthesis, self-assembly and photophysics both at the ensemble and single nanocrystal/assembly level.

Prof Jasieniak is interested in developing nanoscale materials and applying these to energy technologies that can be commercialized to solve real world problems. Over the past 20 years he has innovated in a variety of solar cell technologies, including organic bulk heterojunctions, hybrid dye-sensitized solar cells and inorganic CdTe, CZTS, CIGS and perovskites, as well various other emerging energy-related technologies.

Research in the McNeill research group is focused on exploring the interface between the materials science and device physics of solution processes semiconductors including those based on organic and hybrid perovskite materials. The group has particular expertise in the characterisation of semiconductor thin films with synchrotron-based techniques including grazing incidence wide-angle X-ray scattering (GIWAXS), near-edge X-ray absorption fine-structure (NEXAFS) spectroscopy, resonant soft X-ray scattering (R-SoXS) and resonant tender X-ray diffraction.