Faculty DirectoryTed Sargent

Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Professor of Chemistry
Contact
2145 Sheridan RoadEvanston, IL 60208-3109
Email Ted Sargent
Departments
Electrical and Computer Engineering
Research Interests
We advance and deploy materials chemistry and the physical chemistry of materials and surfaces towards three missions:
- Capturing and utilizing CO2 in order to make efficient CO2-recycling fuels and CO2-sequestering materials.
- Advancing the performance and the underlying science of high-efficiency solar cells, including perovskite tandem solar cells.
- Developing sensors, such as for the UV and infrared wavelengths, that exceed in performance that of existing photodetecting materials and devices.
We rely on computational materials science and computational chemistry; AI/ML; the inorganic and hybrid organic-inorganic materials synthesis, physical chemistry, as well as applied physics, in the pursuit of these goals.
Selected Publications
- Chen, Hao; Teale, Sam; Chen, Bin; Hou, Yi; Grater, Luke; Zhu, Tong; Bertens, Koen; Park, So Min; Atapattu, Harindi R.; Gao, Yajun; Wei, Mingyang; Johnston, Andrew K.; Zhou, Qilin; Xu, Kaimin; Yu, Danni; Han, Congcong; Cui, Teng; Jung, Eui Hyuk; Zhou, Chun; Zhou, Wenjia; Proppe, Andrew H.; Hoogland, Sjoerd; Laquai, Frédéric; Filleter, Tobin; Graham, Kenneth R.; Ning, Zhijun; Sargent, Edward H., Quantum-size-tuned heterostructures enable efficient and stable inverted perovskite solar cells, Nature Photonics (2022).
- Morteza Najarian, Amin; Vafaie, Maral; Johnston, Andrew; Zhu, Tong; Wei, Mingyang; Saidaminov, Makhsud I.; Hou, Yi; Hoogland, Sjoerd; García de Arquer, F. Pelayo; Sargent, Edward H., Sub-millimetre light detection and ranging using perovskites, Nature Electronics (2022).
- Ma, Dongxin; Lin, Kebin; Dong, Yitong; Choubisa, Hitarth; Proppe, Andrew H.; Wu, Dan; Wang, Ya Kun; Chen, Bin; Li, Peicheng; Fan, James Z.; Yuan, Fanglong; Johnston, Andrew; Liu, Yuan; Kang, Yuetong; Lu, Zheng Hong; Wei, Zhanhua; Sargent, Edward H., Distribution control enables efficient reduced-dimensional perovskite LEDs, Nature (2021).
- Lin, Renxing; Xu, Jian; Wei, Mingyang; Wang, Yurui; Qin, Zhengyuan; Liu, Zhou; Wu, Jinlong; Xiao, Ke; Chen, Bin; Park, So Min; Chen, Gang; Atapattu, Harindi R.; Graham, Kenneth R.; Xu, Jun; Zhu, Jia; Li, Ludong; Zhang, Chunfeng; Sargent, Edward H.; Tan, Hairen, All-perovskite tandem solar cells with improved grain surface passivation, Nature (2022).
- Sun, Bin; Najarian, Amin Morteza; Sagar, Laxmi Kishore; Biondi, Margherita; Choi, Min Jae; Li, Xiyan; Levina, Larissa; Baek, Se Woong; Zheng, Chao; Lee, Seungjin; Kirmani, Ahmad R.; Sabatini, Randy; Abed, Jehad; Liu, Mengxia; Vafaie, Maral; Li, Peicheng; Richter, Lee J.; Voznyy, Oleksandr; Chekini, Mahshid; Lu, Zheng Hong; García de Arquer, F. Pelayo; Sargent, Edward H., Fast Near-Infrared Photodetection Using III–V Colloidal Quantum Dots, Advanced Materials (2022).
- Wakerley, David; Lamaison, Sarah; Wicks, Joshua; Clemens, Auston; Feaster, Jeremy; Corral, Daniel; Jaffer, Shaffiq A.; Sarkar, Amitava; Fontecave, Marc; Duoss, Eric B.; Baker, Sarah; Sargent, Edward H.; Jaramillo, Thomas F.; Hahn, Christopher, Gas diffusion electrodes, reactor designs and key metrics of low-temperature CO2 electrolysers, Nature Energy (2022).
- Xie, Yi; Ou, Pengfei; Wang, Xue; Xu, Zhanyou; Li, Yuguang C.; Wang, Ziyun; Huang, Jianan Erick; Wicks, Joshua; McCallum, Christopher; Wang, Ning; Wang, Yuhang; Chen, Tianxiang; Lo, Benedict T.W.; Sinton, David; Yu, Jimmy C.; Wang, Ying; Sargent, Edward H., High carbon utilization in CO2 reduction to multi-carbon products in acidic media, Nature Catalysis (2022).
- Ozden, Adnan; García de Arquer, F. Pelayo; Huang, Jianan Erick; Wicks, Joshua; Sisler, Jared; Miao, Rui Kai; O’Brien, Colin P.; Lee, Geonhui; Wang, Xue; Ip, Alexander H.; Sargent, Edward H.; Sinton, David, Carbon-efficient carbon dioxide electrolysers, Nature Sustainability (2022).