Location: Dalhousie University, Sexton Campus, Room MA121

Date: Thursday, February 20th, 2020

Time: Lunch and Networking: 11:40 am, Presentation: 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm

Cost: Free (lunch – please advise of any special dietary requirements)

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This event qualifies for 1 Professional Development Hour (PDH) for the Engineers Nova Scotia CPD program.

Emerging optoelectronic technologies seek to push the boundaries of both efficiency and cost-effectiveness through the use of flexible platforms and novel material systems. My talk will primarily center on the potential of solution-processed functional materials in energy conversion and sensing applications. For example, colloidal quantum dots (CQDs) are nanometer scaled semiconductor crystals that are synthesized in, processed with, and deposited from solution. These materials offer a new paradigm for optoelectronics; one in which materials properties are not strictly material dependent, but are also influenced by physical dimension. With CQDs, the optical absorption ranges can be tuned by adjusting the size of the nanoparticles on the angstrom length scale. In particular, for photovoltaics, this enables facile access to much broader range of the sun's spectrum than is accessible through conventional photovoltaic materials such as silicon and gallium arsenide. The second part of my talk will focus on the new materials my group is focusing on at Dalhousie.

BIO: 

Ghada Koleilat is an assistant professor in the department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, cross-appointed to the departments of Process Engineering and Applied Science and Physics and Atmospheric Sciences. She was a Banting postdoctoral fellow in the Chemical Engineering department at Stanford University before joining Dalhousie University in 2016. Her group at Dal is interested in investigating the morphological, electrical, optical and mechanical properties of solution-processed nanomaterial systems that harvest specific bands of light. Ghada received her PhD in 2012 in Electrical Engineering at the University of Toronto. Throughout her career, she received many prestigious awards: most recently, she was the recipient of the highly competitive Banting postdoctoral fellowship awarded by the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council. She was ranked 3^rd overall among all the natural science and engineering applicants. More recently, she was the recipient of the competitive inaugural New frontiers for research award given by the tri-agency council.