Functional Devices based on hybrid materials represent a central pillar of our research program, where we translate molecularly engineered materials into high-performance electronic and energy technologies. Our work integrates materials design, synthesis, processing, and device engineering to establish complete structure-property-processing-performance relationships. By combining organic and inorganic components within a single hybrid platform, we create materials that are solution processable, structurally tunable, and compatible with scalable manufacturing. These efforts enable hybrid materials to be deployed across a wide range of device technologies, including light-emitting diodes (LEDs), radiation scintillators, direct X-ray detectors, photodetectors, and next-generation photovoltaic cells (PVs).
One major research direction focuses on LEDs based on MHPs and LD OMHHs. Our group has developed materials and device engineering strategies that improve emission efficiency, color tunability, and operational stability across the visible spectrum. A major emphasis of our current work is the development of high-performance blue and white hybrid LEDs through new emissive materials discovery, improved thin-film processing methods, and optimized device architectures. In parallel, we are exploring emerging concepts such as single-layer white emission and spin LEDs based on chiral hybrid semiconductors, creating opportunities at the interface of optoelectronics, spin physics, and hybrid materials chemistry.
Radiation detection and imaging technologies represent another major focus of our hybrid device research. Our group has pioneered the development of highly luminescent 0D OMHHs as next-generation X-ray scintillators. These materials exhibit excellent scintillation performance, including high light yields, strong dose-rate linearity, ultralow detection limits, and compatibility with large-area and flexible device fabrication. In parallel, we are advancing hybrid semiconductors for direct X-ray detection using molecular sensitization strategies that combine efficient X-ray absorption with effective charge transport. These approaches enable high sensitivity, low detection limits, and excellent operational stability while supporting scalable device fabrication through solution-processed amorphous and glassy hybrid semiconductor films.
Hybrid materials also play an important role in our research on next-generation solar energy technologies. We develop molecular and polymeric strategies to improve the efficiency and stability of hybrid PVs, including surface passivation approaches that enhance environmental stability and long-term device performance. By integrating low-cost organic materials with hybrid semiconductor thin films, we aim to enable scalable and durable PV technologies that can be manufactured using low-temperature, solution-based processing methods.
Key Publications:
Amorphous Zero-Dimensional Organic Metal Halide Hybrid Scintillators with High Light Yield and Fast Response, Angew. Chem. Int. Ed., 2026, 138, e25242.Eco-Friendly Organic Manganese (II) Halide X-Ray Scintillators, Nat. Commun., 2020, 11, 4329.