June 2021 - August 2021
Jazmine, Rhyan, and Layka joined the Congreve Lab during the summer of 2021 as part of the STEM2STHEM Program for high school students. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, I designed a virtual project for them to work on as a team. The team of three sought to quantify and analyze the commercial viability of perovskite LEDs for display and solid-state lighting applications. To start, I taught them fundamental concepts in semiconductor device physics and quantum mechanics so that they could then effectively read the perovskite LED literature. Next, Jazmine developed a model to predict when blue perovskite LED efficiencies as well as stabilities would become commercially viable, Rhyan calculated the amount of electrical power is needed to power perovskite LEDs across the visible spectrum, and Layka investigated the economical demands of fabricating perovskite LEDs to replace current solid-state lighting and displays. Together, they published their article online.
Jazmine, Rhyan, and Layka are now undergraduates studying engineering at Stanford University, Johns Hopkins University, and Princeton University, respectively.