Aram Amassian joined NC State in summer 2018 as a Chancellor’s Faculty Excellence Program cluster hire in Carbon Electronics and an associate professor in the Department of Materials Science and Engineering. Amassian’s research is highly interdisciplinary and focuses on ink-based formulations and thin film processing of organic and hybrid organic-inorganic semiconducting materials for electronic, optoelectronic and energy applications. Amassian is internationally renowned for his work on solution-processing of organic, colloidal quantum dot and hybrid perovskites, where he has introduced in situ diagnostics tools to understand the complex solidification process of soft-matter and hybrid inks into functional electronic materials and devices. His long term goal is to enable the low-cost additive manufacturing of electronics and related technologies. Amassian was previously a founding member of the faculty at the King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST) in Saudi Arabia. He served as assistant and associate professor in Materials Science and Engineering and was a founding member of the KAUST Solar Center. He has worked extensively with industry, including SABIC and Boeing. He was named the Career Development SABIC Chair for his work on solution-processed optoelectronic materials. Amassian received his bachelor of engineering and Ph.D. in engineering physics at Ecole Polytechnique de Montreal in Canada. He was a postdoctoral associate in the Department of Materials Science and Engineering at Cornell University and at the Cornell High Energy Synchrotron Source (CHESS). He was awarded the NSERC (Canada) postdoctoral fellowship, the NSERC post-graduate fellowship, as well as the American Vacuum Society’s Electronic Materials Postdoctoral award. He is widely published and his work has appeared in peer-reviewed journals, including Nature Materials, Nature Nanotechnology, Science Advances, Advanced Materials, Energy and Environmental Science, ACS Energy Letters and Joule. He is the author of more than 165 publications, has amassed more than 10,000 citations and has an h-index of 50 (Google Scholar).
Works (19)
2019 journal article
Bismuth‐Based Perovskite‐Inspired Solar Cells: In Situ Diagnostics Reveal Similarities and Differences in the Film Formation of Bismuth‐ and Lead‐Based Films
Solar RRL, 5, 1800305.
By: M. Tang, D. Barrit, R. Munir, R. Li, J. Barbé, D. Smilgies, S. Gobbo, T. Anthopoulos,
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Source: ORCID
Added: May 13, 2019
2019 journal article
Conducting and Stretchable PEDOT:PSS Electrodes: Role of Additives on Self-Assembly, Morphology, and Transport
ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces, 4.
By: E. Dauzon, A. Mansour, M. Niazi, R. Munir, D. Smilgies, X. Sallenave, C. Plesse, F. Goubard,
Source: ORCID
Added: May 1, 2019
2019 journal article
Environmental impact of the production of graphene oxide and reduced graphene oxide
SN Applied Sciences, 1(2).
By: L. Serrano-Luján, S. Víctor-Román, C. Toledo, O. Sanahuja-Parejo, A. Mansour, J. Abad, , A. Benito, W. Maser, A. Urbina
Source: ORCID
Added: January 26, 2019
2019 journal article
Impact of the Solvation State of Lead Iodide on Its Two‐Step Conversion to MAPbI 3 : An In Situ Investigation
Advanced Functional Materials, 1, 1807544.
By: D. Barrit, P. Cheng, M. Tang, K. Wang, H. Dang, D. Smilgies, S. Liu, T. Anthopoulos, K. Zhao,
Source: ORCID
Added: January 25, 2019
2019 journal article
Interfacial Engineering at the 2D/3D Heterojunction for High-Performance Perovskite Solar Cells
NANO LETTERS, 19(10), 7181–7190.
By: T. Niu, J. Lu, X. Jia, Z. Xu, M. Tang, D. Barrit, N. Yuan, J. Ding
Source: Web Of Science
Added: October 28, 2019
2019 journal article
Kinetic Stabilization of the Sol-Gel State in Perovskites Enables Facile Processing of High-Efficiency Solar Cells
Advanced Materials, 6, 1808357.
By: K. Wang, M. Tang, H. Dang, R. Munir, D. Barrit, M. Bastiani, E. Aydin, D. Smilgies, S. Wolf,
Source: ORCID
Added: June 18, 2019
2019 journal article
Lattice anchoring stabilizes solution-processed semiconductors
NATURE, 570(7759), 96-+.
By: M. Liu, Y. Chen, C. Tan, R. Quintero-Bermudez, A. Proppe, R. Munir, H. Tan, O. Voznyy
Source: Web Of Science
Added: June 24, 2019
2019 journal article
Multi-cation Synergy Suppresses Phase Segregation in Mixed-Halide Perovskites
JOULE, 3(7), 1746–1764.
By: H. Dang, K. Wang, M. Ghasemi, M. Tang, M. De Bastiani, E. Aydin, E. Dauzon, D. Barrit
Source: Web Of Science
Added: August 5, 2019
2019 journal article
Scalable Ambient Fabrication of High-Performance CsPbI2Br Solar Cells
JOULE, 3(10), 2485–2502.
By: Y. Fan, J. Fang, X. Chang, M. Tang, D. Barrit, Z. Xu, Z. Jiang, J. Wen
Source: Web Of Science
Added: October 28, 2019
2018 journal article
Blade-Coated Hybrid Perovskite Solar Cells with Efficiency > 17%: An In Situ Investigation
Blade-Coated Hybrid Perovskite Solar Cells with Efficiency > 17%: An In Situ Investigation. ACS Energy Letters, 3(5), 1078–1085.
By: Y. Zhong, R. Munir, J. Li, M. Tang, M. Niazi, D. Smilgies, K. Zhao,
Source: ORCID
Added: December 30, 2018
2018 journal article
Single crystal hybrid perovskite field-effect transistors
NATURE COMMUNICATIONS, 9.
By: W. Yu, F. Li, L. Yu, M. Niazi, Y. Zou, D. Corzo, A. Basu, C. Ma
Source: NC State University Libraries
Added: January 7, 2019
2018 journal article
The quantum-confined Stark effect in layered hybrid perovskites mediated by orientational polarizability of confined dipoles
NATURE COMMUNICATIONS, 9.
By: G. Walters, M. Wei, O. Voznyy, R. Quintero-Bermudez, A. Kiani, D. Smilgies, R. Munir, , S. Hoogland, E. Sargent
Source: NC State University Libraries
Added: October 29, 2018
2017 journal article
Effects of High Temperature and Thermal Cycling on the Performance of Perovskite Solar Cells: Acceleration of Charge Recombination and Deterioration of Charge Extraction
ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces, 9(40), 35018–35029.
By: A. Sheikh, R. Munir, M. Haque, A. Bera, W. Hu, P. Shaikh, , T. Wu
Source: ORCID
Added: December 30, 2018
2017 journal article
Enhanced Electrical Conductivity of Molecularly p-Doped Poly(3-hexylthiophene) through Understanding the Correlation with Solid-State Order
Macromolecules, 50(20), 8140–8148.
By: J. Hynynen, D. Kiefer, L. Yu, R. Kroon, R. Munir, , M. Kemerink, C. Müller
Source: ORCID
Added: December 30, 2018
2017 journal article
Highly Efficient and Reproducible Nonfullerene Solar Cells from Hydrocarbon Solvents
ACS Energy Letters, 2(7), 1494–1500.
By: A. Wadsworth, R. Ashraf, M. Abdelsamie, S. Pont, M. Little, M. Moser, Z. Hamid, M. Neophytou
Source: ORCID
Added: December 30, 2018
2017 journal article
Hybrid Doping of Few-Layer Graphene via a Combination of Intercalation and Surface Doping
ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces, 9(23), 20020–20028.
By: A. Mansour, A. Kirmani, S. Barlow, S. Marder &
Source: ORCID
Added: December 30, 2018
2017 journal article
Improved Morphology and Efficiency of n–i–p Planar Perovskite Solar Cells by Processing with Glycol Ether Additives
ACS Energy Letters, 2(9), 1960–1968.
By: E. Ugur, A. Sheikh, R. Munir, J. Khan, D. Barrit, , F. Laquai
Source: ORCID
Added: December 30, 2018
2017 journal article
Intermediate-Sized Conjugated Donor Molecules for Organic Solar Cells: Comparison of Benzodithiophene and Benzobisthiazole-Based Cores
Chemistry of Materials, 29(18), 7880–7887.
By: S. Zhang, J. Zhang, M. Abdelsamie, Q. Shi, Y. Zhang, T. Parker, E. Jucov, T. Timofeeva
Source: ORCID
Added: December 30, 2018
2017 journal article
Morphology Development in Solution-Processed Functional Organic Blend Films: An In Situ Viewpoint
Chemical Reviews, 117(9), 6332–6366.
By: L. Richter, D. DeLongchamp &
Source: ORCID
Added: December 30, 2018
Employment
2018 - present
North Carolina State University Raleigh, NC, US
Associate professor
Materials Science and Engineering
2015 - 2018
King Abdullah University of Science and Technology Thuwal, , SA
Associate professor
Materials Science and Engineering
2009 - 2015
King Abdullah University of Science and Technology Thuwal, , SA
Assistant Professor
Materials Science and Engineering
2006 - 2009
Cornell University Ithaca, NY, US
Postdoctoral Associate
Materials Science and Engineering
Education
2001 - 2006
Ecole Polytechnique de Montreal Montreal, QC, CA
Ph.D.
Engineering Physics
1996 - 2000
Ecole Polytechnique de Montreal Montreal, QC, CA
B. Eng.
Engineering Physics
1994 - 1996
Collège International des Marcellines Montreal, QC, CA
DEC Sciences de la Nature
