Abay Dinku

Bio

Professor Dinku’s research is focused on understanding the working principles of organic bulk heterojunction solar cells and apply the knowledge thereof to fabricate optimized devices. He earned his PhD in 2006 in the Organic and Biomolecular Electronics division of Linköping University (Sweden), and he did his postdoctoral research in the Materials Research Institute of Hasselt University (Belgium) and in the Chemistry/Physics departments at UNC-Chapel Hill. He joined the Organic and Carbon Electronics Lab (ORaCEL) at NCSU, department of Physics, in October 2014.

Area(s) of Expertise

His research involves, but not limited to, fabrication and characterization of organic solar cells, investigating the role of material structure-property relationships (on charge transport, recombination, interfacial charge transfer states, etc), and the critical role of interface buffer layers in organic inverted photovoltaic devices.Visit ResearchGate to download many of the papers in pdf.

Publications

• The Critical Role of Materials’ Interaction in Realizing Organic Field-Effect Transistors Via High-Dilution Blending with Insulating Polymers , ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces (2020)
• Multi-length scale morphology of nonfullerene all-small molecule blends and its relation to device function in organic solar cells , Materials Chemistry Frontiers (2019)
• Rational Strategy to Stabilize an Unstable High‐Efficiency Binary Nonfullerene Organic Solar Cells with a Third Component , Advanced Energy Materials (2019)
• The Critical Impact of Material and Process Compatibility on the Active Layer Morphology and Performance of Organic Ternary Solar Cells , (2019)
• Revealing the Impact of F4-TCNQ as Additive on Morphology and Performance of High-Efficiency Nonfullerene Organic Solar Cells , Advanced Functional Materials (2018)
• Panchromatic Sequentially Cast Ternary Polymer Solar Cells , Advanced Materials (2017)
• Polymer Solar Cells: Panchromatic Sequentially Cast Ternary Polymer Solar Cells (Adv. Mater. 4/2017) , Advanced Materials (2017)
• Precise Manipulation of Multilength Scale Morphology and Its Influence on Eco-Friendly Printed All-Polymer Solar Cells , Advanced Functional Materials (2017)
• Strong polymer molecular weight-dependent material interactions: impact on the formation of the polymer/fullerene bulk heterojunction morphology , Journal of Materials Chemistry A (2017)
• Gains and Losses in PbS Quantum Dot Solar Cells with Submicron Periodic Grating Structures , The Journal of Physical Chemistry C (2016)

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Groups

• Faculty