Team
We are an interdisciplinary team, with backgrounds in Materials Science, Engineering, Physics and Chemistry. The team includes students Dr. Hoye worked with in Cambridge and for whom he remains co-supervisor. Students arranged alphabetically by surname.
Principal Investigator
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Dr Robert Hoye, FIMMM CEng CSci
Personal details
Dr Robert Hoye, FIMMM CEng CSci Lecturer in Materials | Royal Academy of Engineering Research FellowSend email+44 (0)20 7594 6048
Bio
Robert completed his PhD at the University of Cambridge (2012-2014). He was a postdoc at MIT (2015-2016) then an independent Research Fellow at Magdalene College (2016-2019) and Downing College (2019-2020) in Cambridge. He was awarded the Young Engineer of the Year prize by the RAEng (2018). More
Location
Royal School of Mines 2.27
Department of Materials
Imperial College London
Exhibition Road
London SW7 2AZ
Postdocs
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Dr. Daniel D. Price
Bio
Daniel completed his PhD at Imperial College London in the Department of Materials and London Centre for Nanotechnology, with research focusing on the plasmonic enhancement effects of metallic nanostructures for fluorescence imaging (2012-2017). He then joined the Plasmon Nanotechnologies group at the Italian Institute of Technology as a postdoc (2018-2021), researching sensing materials and plasmonic nanostructures for biosensing applications. He has now returned to the Materials Department at Imperial as a PDRA to develop nanostructured surfaces for packaging applications.
Location
Department of Materials
Imperial College London
Exhibition Road
London SW7 2AZ -
Dr. Sachin R. Rondiya
Bio
Sachin completed his Ph.D. at SPPU (2017). He was postdoc at INST (2018) and Cardiff University (2019-2021). He is a PDRA in Materials at Imperial and his supervisor is Dr. Hoye. Currently, he is working on developing ABZ2 materials. His work involves material design, photophysics, and prototype device fabrication.
PhD students
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Kavya Reddy Dudipala
Bio
Kavya completed her Intergrated Masters in Physics with specialisation in condensed matter physics, from University of Hyderabad (2012-2017). Later she pursued ‘Laurea Di Secondo Livello’ in Materials Science from University of Turin and Ludwig Maximilian University. She obtained an academic qualification of “Dottore Magistrale” in 2021.Location
Bessemer B321
Department of Materials
Imperial College London
Exhibition Road
London SW7 2AZ -
Yuchen Fu
Bio
Yuchen is a PhD student (202 1 -) in Materials at Imperial and his primary supervisor is Dr. Hoye. He is working on developing solution-processed CuSbSe 2 thin films and investigating its defect tolerance and photovoltaic performance, as well as developing the growth of indium zinc oxide TCOs.
Location
Bessemer B321
Department of Materials
Imperial College London
Exhibition Road
London SW7 2AZ -
Tahmida Huq
Bio
Tahmida is a PhD student (2016-) in Materials at Cambridge. Her primary supervisor is Prof. Judith Driscoll. Tahmida is working on developing layered materials for photovoltaics. She is also working with PragmatIC Printing LLC on p- type TFTs for CMOS. She has a scholarship from the Aziz Foundation.
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Yi-Teng Huang
Bio
Yi-Teng is a PhD student (2019-) in Physics at Cambridge. His primary supervisor is Dr. Akshay Rao. He is working on developing ternary bismuth chalcogenides for photovoltaics, with particular focus on their defect tolerance. He is funded by a government scholarship from Taiwan.
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Zewei Li
Bio
Zewei is a PhD student (2017-) in Physics at Cambridge. His primary supervisor is Prof. Sir Richard Friend. He is working on developing the growth of lead-free double perovskite thin films, with particular focus on tuning the bandgap and understanding the charge-carrier properties.
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Ivy Liu
Bio
Ivy is a PhD student (2020-) in Materials at Imperial, and Dr. Hoye is her primary supervisor. She is working on lead-free vacancy-ordered double and triple perovskites for indoor light harvesting, as well as understanding interfacial losses between AP-CVD oxides grown over metal-halide perovskite absorbers.
Location
Bessemer B321
Department of Materials
Imperial College London
Exhibition Road
London SW7 2AZ -
Junzhi (Jason) Ye
Bio
Jason is a PhD student in Physics at Cambridge (2019-). His primary supervisor is Dr. Akshay Rao. He is working on nanostructured perovskites for lighting, as well as understanding the role of alkylammonium cation rotation on defect tolerance in lead-halide perovskites.
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Kaiwen (Victor) Zhang
Bio
Kaiwen is a PhD student (2018-) in Chemical Engineering at Cambridge. His primary supervisor is Dr. Laura Torrente and is also co-supervised by Dr. Sam Stranks. He is working on developing the synthesis of core-shell perovskite nanocrystals by flow reactor synthesis.
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Yiru Zhu
Bio
Yiru is a PhD student (2019-) in Materials at Cambridge. Her primary supervisor is Prof. Manish Chhowalla. Her project focuses on understanding and controlling defects in two-dimensional transition metal dichalcogenides, particularly the role of cation orbital overlap on defect tolerance.
Masters students
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Disha Bandyopadhyay
Bio
Disha is an MEng Materials with Nuclear Engineering student at Imperial. She is working on developing carbon monoxide gas sensors using physical vapour deposition.
Location
Department of Materials
South Kensington Campus
Exhibition Road
London SW7 2AZ
Alumni
Alumni
Arranged by year and alphabetically by surname
| Year | Name | Role in lab | Home Institution | Project |
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| 2021 | Christina Kong | PhD student | Imperial College London |
Antimony chalcogenides for indoor light harvesting and photoconductive gas sensing |
| 2021 | Rob Jagt | PhD student (co-supervised) | University of Cambridge |
Next generation optoelectronic devices for energy applications utilising metal oxides, bismuth oxyhalides and lead halide perovskites |
| 2021 | Ziyue (Phoenix) Yi | PhD student (co-supervised) | University of Cambridge |
Stability study in lead-halide perovskite light-emitting diodes |
| 2019 | Katharina Börsig | Visiting Bachelors student | University of Konstanz (Germany) | Tuning the density of BiOI thin films grown by chemical vapour transport |
| 2019 | Laura Spies | Visiting Masters student | Ludwig Maximilians University (Germany) | The effect of d-orbitals on ternary bismuth chalcogenide thin films for photovoltaics |
| 2019 | Mengyao Sun | Visiting Bachelors Student | Fudan University (China) | Developing perovskite tandems with p-type silicon cells |
| 2019 | Yanhao Wang | Summer intern | University of Cambridge | Developing the growth of ternary bismuth chalcogenide thin films |
| 2018-2019 | Sam Hill | Final-year project student | University of Cambridge | Printing oxides on perovskite solar cells from the vapour phase |
| 2018-2019 | Daniella Sauven | Final-year project student | University of Cambridge | The effect of pressure on the growth of BiOI thin films |
| 2014-2019 | Lana Lee | PhD student (co-supervised) | University of Cambridge | Vapour-based growth of inorganic compounds for next-generation, stable photovoltaics |
| 2014-2019 | Ravi Raninga | PhD student (co-supervised) | University of Cambridge | Controlling the electronic properties of printed metal oxides |