Aram Amassian
Emerging photovoltaics, Solution processing, In situ investigation, Organic electronics, Organic photovoltaics, Perovskite solar cells, Colloidal quantum dot solar cells, Structure-property relationship, Surfaces and interfaces, Materials acceleration platforms, Autonomous experimentation, Smart closed-loop experimentation, Reinforcement Learning, Machine learning and Artificial Intelligence
Aram Amassian is University Faculty Scholar and Professor of Materials Science and Engineering at NC State. He joined NC State in summer 2018 as a Chancellor’s Faculty Excellence Program hire in the Organic and Carbon Electronics (ORaCEL) Cluster and in the Department of Materials Science and Engineering. more
Works (81)
2026 article
Singlet Fission Enables Triplet Sensitization of Narrow Gap Hybrid Perovskites
Seyitliyev, D., Darabi, K., Amassian, A., & Gundogdu, K. (2026, January 9). (Vol. 1). Vol. 1.
2025 article
A Stress-Diffusion-Stability Framework Enables Ambient Fabrication of Hybrid Perovskites with Extended Environmental Stability
Guo, B., McAndrews, G., Kaczaral, S., Li, J., Gu, Q., McGehee, M., & Amassian, A. (2025, December 30).
2025 article
AI-guided high-throughput investigation of conjugated polymer doping reveals importance of local polymer order and dopant-polymer separation
Mauthe, J. P., Mishra, A. K., Sarkar, A., Guo, B., Thapa, G. J., Schroedl, J., … Amassian, A. (2025, October 9). Matter, Vol. 10.
2025 article
High-Performance Perovskite Photodetector through Plasmonic Enhancement of Carrier Dynamics
Sadath, M. A., Guo, B., Li, J., Lin, D., Scalf, E., Davis, J., … Gu, Q. (2025, November 28). ACS Nano.
2025 article
Low‐Cost, High‐Efficiency Organic Solar Cells Based on Ecofriendly Processing Solvent
Qin, Y., Tu, H., Woodward, N., Chauhan, M., Thapa, G. J., Amassian, A., … Ade, H. (2025, January 26). Advanced Energy and Sustainability Research, Vol. 1.
2025 article
SEARS: a lightweight FAIR platform for multi-lab materials experiments and closed-loop optimization
Tali, R., Mishra, A. K., Lohia, D., Mauthe, J. P., Neu, J. S., Kwon, S.-J., … Ganapathysubramanian, B. (2025, January 1). Digital Discovery, Vol. 10.
2025 article
Two‐Stage Bipolaron Formation in Molecularly Doped Conjugated Polymers
Su, R., Chai, J., Pei, Y., Olanrewaju, Y., Yan, L., Neu, J., … So, F. (2025, August 6). Advanced Materials, Vol. 8.
2024 journal article
Cationic ligation guides quantum-well formation in layered hybrid perovskites
Matter, 7(12), 4410–4425.
Contributors: K. Darabi n, M. Chauhan n, B. Guo n, J. Wang n, D. Seyitliyev n, F. Bateni n, T. Wang n, M. Ghasemi n
2024 article
Electrostatic self-assembly yields a structurally stabilized PEDOT:PSS with efficient mixed transport and high-performance OECTs
Taussig, L., Ghasemi, M., Han, S., Kwansa, A. L., Li, R., Keene, S. T., … Amassian, A. (2024, January 16). Matter, Vol. 7.
2024 article
Facile Synthesis of Cu-Doped TiO2 Particles for Accelerated Visible Light-Driven Antiviral and Antibacterial Inactivation
Campbell, Z. S., Ghareeb, C. R., Baro, S., Mauthe, J., McColgan, G., Amassian, A., … Dickey, E. C. (2024, May 3). ACS Applied Engineering Materials, Vol. 2, pp. 1411–1423.
Contributors: Z. Campbell n, C. Ghareeb n, S. Baro n, J. Mauthe n, G. Mccolgan n, n , F. Scholle n , R. Ghiladi n , M. Abolhasani n , E. Dickey n
2024 article
Improved Ambient Stability of Inorganic Perovskite Films Through Reduction of Tensile Stress
Kaczaral, S., McAndrews, G., Guo, B., Amassian, A., Belisle, R., & McGehee, M. D. (2024, June 9).
2024 article
Linking Electronic and Structural Disorder Parameters to Carrier Transport in a Modern Conjugated Polymer
Thapa, G. J., Chauhan, M., Cranston, R. R., Guo, B., Lessard, B. H., Dougherty, D. B., & Amassian, A. (2024, August 30). ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces, Vol. 8.
2024 article
Mapping the interfacial energetic landscape in organic solar cells reveals pathways to reducing non-radiative losses
Thapa, G. J., Chauhan, M., Mauthe, J. P., Dougherty, D. B., & Amassian, A. (2024, October 31). Matter, Vol. 8.
2024 article
Mechanistic understanding of speciated oxide growth in high entropy alloys
Gwalani, B., Martin, A., Kautz, E., Guo, B., Lambeets, S. V., Olszta, M., … Devaraj, A. (2024, June 12). Nature Communications, Vol. 15.
2024 article
Moisture Uptake Relaxes Stress in Metal Halide Perovskites at the Expense of Stability
McAndrews, G. R., Guo, B., Kaczaral, S. C., Fukuda, K., Poma, M. R. S., Belisle, R. A., … McGehee, M. D. (2024, July 30). ACS Energy Letters.
2024 article
Rapid Prototyping for Accelerated Establishment of Film Processing‐Performance Relationships in Silicon Phthalocyanine OFETs
Cranston, R. R., Mauthe, J., Wang, T., Thapa, G. J., Amassian, A., & Lessard, B. H. (2024, November 18). Advanced Electronic Materials, Vol. 11.
2024 article
Strain regulation retards natural operation decay of perovskite solar cells
Shen, Y., Zhang, T., Xu, G., Steele, J. A., Chen, X., Chen, W., … Li, Y. (2024, October 14). Nature.
2024 article
Using spatial confinement to decipher polymorphism in the organic semiconductor p-DTS(FBTTh2)2
Marina, S., Dyson, M., Rodríguez-Martínez, X., Reid, O. G., Li, R., Rumbles, G., … Martín, J. (2024, January 1). Journal of Materials Chemistry C.
2024 article
Why Perovskite Thermal Stress is Unaffected by Thin Contact Layers
McAndrews, G. R., Ahmad, M., Guo, B., Kaczaral, S. C., Amassian, A., Rolston, N., & McGehee, M. D. (2024, June 5). Advanced Energy Materials.
2023 article
In situ Stress Monitoring Reveals Tension and Wrinkling Evolutions during Halide Perovskite Film Formation
Guo, B., Chauhan, M., Woodward, N. R., McAndrews, G. R., Thapa, G. J., Lefler, B. M., … Amassian, A. (2023, December 6). ACS Energy Letters, Vol. 9, pp. 75–84.
2023 article
A multiscale ion diffusion framework sheds light on the diffusion–stability–hysteresis nexus in metal halide perovskites
Ghasemi, M., Guo, B., Darabi, K., Wang, T., Wang, K., Huang, C.-W., … Amassian, A. (2023, February 27). Nature Materials.
2023 article
Engineering ligand reactivity enables high-temperature operation of stable perovskite solar cells
Park, S. M., Wei, M., Xu, J., Atapattu, H. R., Eickemeyer, F. T., Darabi, K., … Sargent, E. H. (2023, July 13). Science.
2023 article
How the dynamics of attachment to the substrate influence stress in metal halide perovskites
McAndrews, G. R., Guo, B., Morales, D. A., Amassian, A., & McGehee, M. D. (2023, December 1). APL Energy.
2023 article
Hybrid magnonics in hybrid perovskite antiferromagnets
Comstock, A. H., Chou, C.-T., Wang, Z., Wang, T., Song, R., Sklenar, J., … Sun, D. (2023, April 1). Nature Communications, Vol. 14.
2023 article
Instability of Non-fullerene Acceptors Used in Organic Solar Cells
Li, Y., Wang, T., Amassian, A., & Forrest, S. (2023, June 11).
2023 article
Interactions between nonfullerene acceptors lead to unstable ternary organic photovoltaic cells
Li, Y., Huang, X., Mencke, A. R., Kandappa, S. K., Wang, T., Ding, K., … Forrest, S. R. (2023, May 30). Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
2023 article
Low-loss contacts on textured substrates for inverted perovskite solar cells
Park, S. M., Wei, M., Lempesis, N., Yu, W., Hossain, T., Agosta, L., … Sargent, E. H. (2023, October 23). Nature.
2023 article
Sustainable materials acceleration platform reveals stable and efficient wide-bandgap metal halide perovskite alloys
Wang, T., Li, R., Ardekani, H., Serrano-Luján, L., Wang, J., Ramezani, M., … Amassian, A. (2023, July 25). Matter, Vol. 6, pp. 2963–2986.
2022 journal article
A Universal Cosolvent Evaporation Strategy Enables Direct Printing of Perovskite Single Crystals for Optoelectronic Device Applications
Advanced Materials, 34(9), 2109862.
2022 journal article
A universal co-solvent dilution strategy enables facile and cost-effective fabrication of perovskite photovoltaics
Nature Communications, 13(1).
2022 journal article
Cavity Engineering of Perovskite Distributed Feedback Lasers
ACS Photonics, 9(9), 3124–3133.
2022 conference paper
Colloidal nanostructures control the formation and orientation of quantum wells in layered hybrid perovskites (Conference Presentation)
In T.-W. Lee, F. So, & C. Adachi (Eds.), Organic and Hybrid Light Emitting Materials and Devices XXVI.
Ed(s): T. Lee, F. So & C. Adachi
2022 conference paper
Multi-scale ordering of PEDOT and PSS in the presence of ionic salts enables water-stable 2D/3D printable conductors and devices (Conference Presentation)
In O. D. Jurchescu & I. McCulloch (Eds.), Organic and Hybrid Field-Effect Transistors XXI.
Ed(s): O. Jurchescu & I. McCulloch n
2022 conference paper
Quantitative multiscale diffusion framework for metal halide perovskites
In G. Li, T.-Q. Nguyen, A. F. Nogueira, B. P. Rand, E. Moons, & N. Stingelin (Eds.), Organic, Hybrid, and Perovskite Photovoltaics XXIII.
Ed(s): G. Li, T. Nguyen, A. Nogueira, B. Rand, E. Moons & N. Stingelin
2022 journal article
Versatile methods for improving the mechanical properties of fullerene and non-fullerene bulk heterojunction layers to enable stretchable organic solar cells
Journal of Materials Chemistry C, 10(9), 3375–3386.
2021 article
A molecular interaction–diffusion framework for predicting organic solar cell stability
Ghasemi, M., Balar, N., Peng, Z., Hu, H., Qin, Y., Kim, T., … Ade, H. (2021, January 11). Nature Materials, Vol. 20, pp. 525-+.
2021 conference paper
Accelerating hybrid perovskite research through robotic micro-experimentation
In T.-W. Lee, F. So, & C. Adachi (Eds.), Organic and Hybrid Light Emitting Materials and Devices XXV.
Ed(s): T. Lee, F. So & C. Adachi
2021 article
Balancing crop production and energy harvesting in organic solar-powered greenhouses
Ravishankar, E., Charles, M., Xiong, Y., Henry, R., Swift, J., Rech, J., … O’Connor, B. T. (2021, March 1). Cell Reports Physical Science, Vol. 3, p. 100381.
2021 journal article
Conjugated Polymer Mesocrystals with Structural and Optoelectronic Coherence and Anisotropy in Three Dimensions
Advanced Materials, 34(1), 2103002.
2021 journal article
Conjugated polymers with controllable interfacial order and energetics enable tunable heterojunctions in organic and colloidal quantum dot photovoltaics
Journal of Materials Chemistry A, 10(4), 1788–1801.
2021 journal article
Implication of polymeric template agent on the formation process of hybrid halide perovskite films
Nanotechnology, 32(26), 265707.
2021 journal article
Observation of spatially resolved Rashba states on the surface of CH3NH3PbBr3 single crystals
Applied Physics Reviews, 8(3), 031408.
2021 article
Perovskite Solar Cells toward Eco-Friendly Printing
Chang, X., Fan, Y., Zhao, K., Fang, J., Liu, D., Tang, M.-C., … Huang, W. (2021, January 1). Research.
2021 journal article
Pushing the Limits of Flexibility and Stretchability of Solar Cells: A Review
Advanced Materials, 33(36), 2101469.
2021 journal article
Wide and Tunable Bandgap MAPbBr 3− x Cl x Hybrid Perovskites with Enhanced Phase Stability: In Situ Investigation and Photovoltaic Devices
Wide and Tunable Bandgap MAPbBr . Solar RRL, 5(4), 2000718.
2020 article
In situ study of the film formation mechanism of organic–inorganic hybrid perovskite solar cells: controlling the solvate phase using an additive system
Lee, S., Tang, M.-C., Munir, R., Barrit, D., Kim, Y.-J., Kang, R., … Kim, D.-Y. (2020, January 1). Journal of Materials Chemistry A.
2020 article
Author Correction: Efficient near-infrared light-emitting diodes based on quantum dots in layered perovskite
Gao, L., Quan, L. N., Arquer, F. P. G., Zhao, Y., Munir, R., Proppe, A., … Sargent, E. H. (2020, April 15). Nature Photonics.
2020 article
Colloidal Quantum Dot Photovoltaics Using Ultrathin, Solution-Processed Bilayer In2O3/ZnO Electron Transport Layers with Improved Stability
Kirmani, A. R., Eisner, F., Mansour, A. E., Firdaus, Y., Chaturvedi, N., Seitkhan, A., … Amassian, A. (2020, May 28). ACS Applied Energy Materials.
2020 article
Colloidal Quantum Dot Photovoltaics: Current Progress and Path to Gigawatt Scale Enabled by Smart Manufacturing
Kirmani, A. R., Luther, J. M., Abolhasani, M., & Amassian, A. (2020, August 26). ACS Energy Letters, Vol. 5, pp. 3069–3100.
2020 article
Critical Role of Polymer Aggregation and Miscibility in Nonfullerene‐Based Organic Photovoltaics
Yi, X., Peng, Z., Xu, B., Seyitliyev, D., Ho, C. H. Y., Danilov, E. O., … So, F. (2020, January 29). Advanced Energy Materials, Vol. 10.
2020 article
Efficient Hybrid Mixed‐Ion Perovskite Photovoltaics: In Situ Diagnostics of the Roles of Cesium and Potassium Alkali Cation Addition
Tang, M.-C., Fan, Y., Barrit, D., Li, R., Dang, H. X., Zhang, S., … Anthopoulos, T. D. (2020, June 19). Solar RRL.
2020 article
Enhanced mid-wavelength infrared refractive index of organically modified chalcogenide (ORMOCHALC) polymer nanocomposites with thermomechanical stability
Islam, M. D., Liu, S., Boyd, D. A., Zhong, Y., Nahid, M. M., Henry, R., … Ryu, J. E. (2020, July 20). Optical Materials, Vol. 108.
2020 article
Facile and noninvasive passivation, doping and chemical tuning of macroscopic hybrid perovskite crystals
Kirmani, A. R., Mansour, A. E., Yang, C., Munir, R., El-Zohry, A. M., Mohammed, O. F., & Amassian, A. (2020, March 17). PLoS ONE.
2020 article
High-density polyethylene—an inert additive with stabilizing effects on organic field-effect transistors
Scaccabarozzi, A. D., Basham, J. I., Yu, L., Westacott, P., Zhang, W., Amassian, A., … Stingelin, N. (2020, January 1). Journal of Materials Chemistry C.
2020 article
High‐Performance Tandem Organic Solar Cells Using HSolar as the Interconnecting Layer
Ho, C. H. Y., Kim, T., Xiong, Y., Firdaus, Y., Yi, X., Dong, Q., … So, F. (2020, May 12). Advanced Energy Materials, Vol. 10, p. 2000823.
2020 article
Optimizing Solid-State Ligand Exchange for Colloidal Quantum Dot Optoelectronics: How Much Is Enough?
Kirmani, A. R., Walters, G., Kim, T., Sargent, E. H., & Amassian, A. (2020, April 27). ACS Applied Energy Materials, Vol. 3, pp. 5385–5392.
2020 article
Room‐Temperature Partial Conversion of α‐FAPbI3 Perovskite Phase via PbI2 Solvation Enables High‐Performance Solar Cells
Barrit, D., Cheng, P., Darabi, K., Tang, M. C., Smilgies, D. M., Liu, S., … Amassian, A. (2020, January 31). Advanced Functional Materials.
2020 article
Stretchable and Transparent Conductive PEDOT:PSS‐Based Electrodes for Organic Photovoltaics and Strain Sensors Applications
Dauzon, E., Lin, Y., Faber, H., Yengel, E., Sallenave, X., Plesse, C., … Anthopoulos, T. D. (2020, May 25). Advanced Functional Materials.
2020 article
Systematic Study on the Morphological Development of Blade-Coated Conjugated Polymer Thin Films via In Situ Measurements
Kim, Y.-J., Lee, S., Niazi, M. R., Hwang, K., Tang, M.-C., Lim, D.-H., … Kim, D.-Y. (2020, July 7). ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces, Vol. 12, pp. 36417–36427.
2020 article
The Critical Role of Materials’ Interaction in Realizing Organic Field-Effect Transistors Via High-Dilution Blending with Insulating Polymers
Angunawela, I., Nahid, M. M., Ghasemi, M., Amassian, A., Ade, H., & Gadisa, A. (2020, May 15). ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces, Vol. 12, pp. 26239–26249.
2019 article
Ambient blade coating of mixed cation, mixed halide perovskites without dripping: in situ investigation and highly efficient solar cells
Tang, M.-C., Fan, Y., Barrit, D., Chang, X., Dang, H. X., Li, R., … Amassian, A. (2019, December 4). Journal of Materials Chemistry A.
2019 article
Bismuth‐Based Perovskite‐Inspired Solar Cells: In Situ Diagnostics Reveal Similarities and Differences in the Film Formation of Bismuth‐ and Lead‐Based Films
Tang, M.-C., Barrit, D., Munir, R., Li, R., Barbé, J. M., Smilgies, D.-M., … Amassian, A. (2019, April 16). Solar RRL.
2019 article
Conducting and Stretchable PEDOT:PSS Electrodes: Role of Additives on Self-Assembly, Morphology, and Transport
Dauzon, E., Mansour, A. E., Niazi, M. R., Munir, R., Smilgies, D.-M., Sallenave, X., … Amassian, A. (2019, April 15). ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces, Vol. 11, pp. 17570–17582.
2019 article
Environmental impact of the production of graphene oxide and reduced graphene oxide
Serrano-Luján, L., Víctor-Román, S., Toledo, C., Sanahuja-Parejo, O., Mansour, A. E., Abad, J., … Urbina, A. (2019, January 25). SN Applied Sciences, Vol. 1.
2019 article
Impact of Residual Lead Iodide on Photophysical Properties of Lead Triiodide Perovskite Solar Cells
Khan, J. I., Sheikh, A. D., Alamoudi, M. A., Barrit, D., Ugur, E., Laquai, F., & Amassian, A. (2019, November 12). Energy Technology.
2019 article
Impact of the Solvation State of Lead Iodide on Its Two‐Step Conversion to MAPbI3: An In Situ Investigation
Barrit, D., Cheng, P., Tang, M. C., Wang, K., Dang, H., Smilgies, D. M., … Amassian, A. (2019, January 24). Advanced Functional Materials.
2019 article
Interfacial Engineering at the 2D/3D Heterojunction for High-Performance Perovskite Solar Cells
Niu, T., Lu, J., Jia, X., Xu, Z., Tang, M.-C., Barrit, D., … Liu, S. (2019, September 3). Nano Letters.
2019 article
Kinetic Stabilization of the Sol–Gel State in Perovskites Enables Facile Processing of High‐Efficiency Solar Cells
Wang, K., Tang, M. C., Dang, H. X., Munir, R., Barrit, D., Bastiani, M. D., … Amassian, A. (2019, June 17). Advanced Materials.
2019 article
Lattice anchoring stabilizes solution-processed semiconductors
Liu, M., Chen, Y., Tan, C.-S., Quintero-Bermudez, R., Proppe, A. H., Munir, R., … Sargent, E. H. (2019, May 22). Nature.
2019 article
Multi-cation Synergy Suppresses Phase Segregation in Mixed-Halide Perovskites
Dang, H. X., Wang, K., Ghasemi, M., Tang, M.-C., Bastiani, M. D., Aydin, E., … Amassian, A. (2019, June 6). Joule.
2019 article
Scalable Ambient Fabrication of High-Performance CsPbI2Br Solar Cells
Fan, Y., Fang, J., Chang, X., Tang, M.-C., Barrit, D., Xu, Z., … Zhao, K. (2019, August 15). Joule.
2018 article
Blade-Coated Hybrid Perovskite Solar Cells with Efficiency > 17%: An In Situ Investigation
Zhong, Y., Munir, R., Li, J., Tang, M.-C., Niazi, M. R., Smilgies, D.-M., … Amassian, A. (2018, March 26). ACS Energy Letters, Vol. 3, pp. 1078–1085.
2018 article
Single crystal hybrid perovskite field-effect transistors
Yu, W., Li, F., Yu, L., Niazi, M. R., Zou, Y., Corzo, D., … Amassian, A. (2018, December 11). Nature Communications.
2018 article
The quantum-confined Stark effect in layered hybrid perovskites mediated by orientational polarizability of confined dipoles
Walters, G., Wei, M., Voznyy, O., Quintero-Bermudez, R., Kiani, A., Smilgies, D.-M., … Sargent, E. (2018, October 5). Nature Communications.
2017 article
Effects of High Temperature and Thermal Cycling on the Performance of Perovskite Solar Cells: Acceleration of Charge Recombination and Deterioration of Charge Extraction
Sheikh, A. D., Munir, R., Haque, M. A., Bera, A., Hu, W., Shaikh, P., … Wu, T. (2017, September 18). ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces, Vol. 9, pp. 35018–35029.
2017 article
Enhanced Electrical Conductivity of Molecularly p-Doped Poly(3-hexylthiophene) through Understanding the Correlation with Solid-State Order
Hynynen, J., Kiefer, D., Yu, L., Kroon, R., Munir, R., Amassian, A., … Müller, C. (2017, October 11). Macromolecules, Vol. 50, pp. 8140–8148.
2017 article
Highly Efficient and Reproducible Nonfullerene Solar Cells from Hydrocarbon Solvents
Wadsworth, A., Ashraf, R. S., Abdelsamie, M., Pont, S., Little, M., Moser, M., … McCulloch, I. (2017, June 1). ACS Energy Letters, Vol. 2, pp. 1494–1500.
2017 article
Hybrid Doping of Few-Layer Graphene via a Combination of Intercalation and Surface Doping
Mansour, A. E., Kirmani, A. R., Barlow, S., Marder, S. R., & Amassian, A. (2017, May 23). ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces, Vol. 9, pp. 20020–20028.
2017 article
Improved Morphology and Efficiency of n–i–p Planar Perovskite Solar Cells by Processing with Glycol Ether Additives
Ugur, E., Sheikh, A. D., Munir, R., Khan, J. I., Barrit, D., Amassian, A., & Laquai, F. (2017, July 31). ACS Energy Letters, Vol. 2, pp. 1960–1968.
2017 article
Intermediate-Sized Conjugated Donor Molecules for Organic Solar Cells: Comparison of Benzodithiophene and Benzobisthiazole-Based Cores
Zhang, S., Zhang, J., Abdelsamie, M., Shi, Q., Zhang, Y., Parker, T. C., … Marder, S. R. (2017, September 5). Chemistry of Materials, Vol. 29, pp. 7880–7887.
2017 article
Morphology Development in Solution-Processed Functional Organic Blend Films: An In Situ Viewpoint
Richter, L. J., DeLongchamp, D. M., & Amassian, A. (2017, April 17). Chemical Reviews, Vol. 117, pp. 6332–6366.
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