SEMDE | Doumon Lab

Welcome! to Doumon’s Sustainable Energy, Materials, and Device Engineering (SEMDE) research group, located in the Steidle Building, home to the Materials Science and Engineering department at Penn State. The Doumon Lab promotes a lab working environment that is diverse, equitable, and inclusive for a lively research community that celebrates all, irrespective of gender, religion, ethnicity, sexual orientation, disability, socio-economic status, etc.

SEMDE draws inspiration from current and next-generation materials to conduct research at the interface of energy, chemistry, device physics, functional device engineering, device stability and reliability for sustainable energy technology deployment and energy transition. The group focuses on cutting-edge research with state-of-the-art experimental techniques and tools to fabricate, characterize, and probe thin-film-based optoelectronic and photovoltaic devices. And organic/hybrid semiconductor materials are central to these efforts.

Our researchers explore various materials coupled with different architectures and processing techniques to achieve highly efficient, stable, and reliable devices through device engineering. We work in a highly collaborative environment with other groups within the Steidle Building, the Millenium Science Complex, the College of Earth and Minerals, and Penn State at large. We are also open to external collaborations. Reach out if our expertise is complementary and there is a research interest we can rally our forces and knowledge around.