Faculty Directory
Robert Chang

Professor of Materials Science and Engineering

Director, Materials Research Institute

Contact

2220 Campus Drive
Cook Hall 2036; Office - Cook 2011
Evanston, IL 60208

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Website

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Centers

Materials Research Institute

Departments

Materials Science and Engineering

Affiliations

PhD Program in Applied Physics

Education

Post-doc, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ

Ph.D. Plasma Physics, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ

S.B. Physics, MIT, Cambridge, MA


Research Interests

Our group focuses on the following studies: 


Unconventional Solar Cell Design, Fabrication and Analysis: Using state-of-the-art materials science and technology approaches, we are constructing one of a kind high efficiency solar cells.

Nanostructured Carbon Sheets, Tubes and Molecules: Recently we developed a technique whereby large quantities of nano-structured carbon materials can be grown at high temperatures. These very high-quality nanomaterials have been used to fabricate flat panel displays and energy-generation and storage devices. 

Photonic crystals: The fabrication of ZnO-based photonic crystals that can also lase has been an important part of the group research. We are currently imbedding quantum dots into these materials to study resonant effects for highly sensitive detection of molecules. 

Amorphous Semiconducting Oxide Films: We have been studying a class of unique complex amorphous oxide films which have high optical transparency and electron mobility. A fundamental understanding of this exotic material system will lead to the development of a new generation of transparent field effect integrated circuits and energy systems. 

Nanostructured Plasmonic Materials in the Infrared: We have started the investigation of 2-D and 3D oxide-based plasmonic materialsfor the purpose of molecular detection and manipulation in the infrared region of the spectrum.  This effort will advance the understanding of molecular chemistry and dynamics.


Significant Recognition

  • Materials Research Society (MRS): President, 1989; Fellow, 2008; Woody Award, 1987; Councilor, 1986-8 & 1992-4
  • Honorary Member of Materials Research Societies of India, Japan and Korea
  • Siu Lien Ling Wong Fellow, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, 1999
  • Fellow, American Vacuum Society
  • NSF Director's Distinguished Teaching Scholar Award, 2005

Significant Professional Service

  • Member, International Advisory Board of NIMS, Japan
  • Member, "Visionary Board" of MINATEC, CEA, France
  • General Secretary & Founding President, International Union of Materials Research Societies (IUMRS)

Selected Publications

  • Byunghong Lee, Yamuna Ezhumalai, Woongkyu Lee, Ming Chou Chen, Chen Yu Yeh, Tobin Jay Marks, R P H Chang, “Cs2SnI6-Encapsulated Multidye-Sensitized All-Solid-State Solar Cells”, ACS applied materials & interfaces, (2019)
  • Stephanie L. Moffitt, D. Bruce Buchholz, R P H Chang, Thomas O Mason, Tobin Jay Marks, Michael J Bedzyk, Qing Ma, “Surface Chemistry and Long-Term Stability of Amorphous Zn-Sn-O Thin Films”, Journal of Physical Chemistry C, (2018)
  • Thomas J. Aldrich, Alexander S. Dudnik, Nicholas D. Eastham, Eric F. Manley, Lin X Chen, R P H Chang, Ferdinand S. Melkonyan, Antonio Facchetti, Tobin Jay Marks, “Suppressing Defect Formation Pathways in the Direct C-H Arylation Polymerization of Photovoltaic Copolymers”, Macromolecules, (2018)
  • Peijun Guo, Benjamin T. Diroll, Wei Huang, Li Zeng, Binghao Wang, Michael J Bedzyk, Antonio Facchetti, Tobin Jay Marks, R P H Chang, Richard Daniel Schaller, “Low-Loss Near-Infrared Hyperbolic Metamaterials with Epitaxial ITO-In2O3 Multilayers”, ACS Photonics, (2018)
  • Gang Wang, Nicholas D. Eastham, Thomas J. Aldrich, Boran Ma, Eric F. Manley, Zhihua Chen, Lin X. Chen, Monica Olvera de la Cruz, Robert P.H. Chang, Ferdinand S. Melkonyan, Antonio Facchetti, Tobin J. Marks, “Photoactive Blend Morphology Engineering through Systematically Tuning Aggregation in All-Polymer Solar Cells”, Advanced Energy Materials, (2018)
  • Nicholas D. Eastham, Jenna L. Logsdon, Eric F. Manley, Thomas J. Aldrich, Matthew J. Leonardi, Gang Wang, Natalia E. Powers-Riggs, Ryan M. Young, Lin X. Chen, Michael R. Wasielewski, Ferdinand S. Melkonyan, Robert P.H. Chang, Tobin J. Marks, “Hole-Transfer Dependence on Blend Morphology and Energy Level Alignment in Polymer”, Advanced Materials, (2018)
  • Tadaaki Nagao, Kai Chen, Thang Duy Dao, Satoshi Ishii, R P H Chang, Chung V. Hoang, Makiko Oyama, Miki Maeda, “Metal/conductive oxide plasmonic structures for surface-enhanced infrared absorption spectroscopy”, Bunseki Kagaku, (2018)
  • Wei Huang, Peijun Guo, Li Zeng, Ran Li, Binghao Wang, Gang Wang, Xinan Zhang, R P H Chang, Junsheng Yu, Michael J Bedzyk, Tobin Jay Marks, Antonio Facchetti, “Metal Composition and Polyethylenimine Doping Capacity Effects on Semiconducting Metal Oxide-Polymer Blend Charge Transport”, Journal of the American Chemical Society, (2018)