Johnson Lab (2021)

During the spring of my freshman year, I joined Dr. David Johnson’s materials chemistry lab at the UO Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry. I helped innovate a strategy to synthesize extended solids, allowing for the creation of families of nanostructured and kinetically stable compounds. These compounds optimize device performance in transistors, solar cells, and light-emitting diodes, giving them direct practical implementations in the fields of technology, engineering, and renewable energy. In my work, I characterized ternary Fe-Pb-Se crystal lattice structures using X-ray fluorescence, reflectivity, and diffraction to quantitatively measure their composition and thickness.