Home Faculty Advisor: Dr. Felix Deschler and Dr. Hannah Joyce (Department of Engineering), University of Cambridge
Host Faculty Advisor: Professor Jim Schuck, Molecular Foundry, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboragtory
Lissa completed in 2015 her BA Natural Sciences and MSci Physics at University of Cambridge. She is currently a member of the Centre for Doctoral Training in Nanoscience and Nanotechnology (NanoDTC). Her Ph.D. project aims to synthesize metal halide perovskite nanowires and to study their optoelectronic properties using high spatial resolution optical spectroscopy.
The project “Imaging of phonon modes in low-dimensional lead-halide perovskite materials”, was performed in Jim Schuck’s nano-optical imaging group at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory to further her Ph.D. work on the photophysics of metal-halide perovskite nanostructures. Understanding the fundamental properties of these semiconductors is vital to their future applications in photovoltaics and other optoelectronic devices. Therefore, in order to track the rise and fall of the phonon population in the materials after photoexcitation, a time-resolved anti-Stokes Raman experiment was set up, with a high spatial resolution made possible by their microscope facilities.