Herbert Wertheim College of Engineering
xue Lab
Led by jiangeng xue · Electrical and Computer Engineering(unverified)
What we study
The Xue Lab studies organic and thin-film solar cells and optical materials. A recent student project builds a transparent solar window by coating glass with gold nanoparticle films and measuring how much light they reflect and transmit to edge-mounted cells.
What working here is like
- Building & testing
- No organisms (data only)
- No coding
- Project
- 1
- Papers
- 5
Current projects
Project Plasmonic Au Nanoparticles for Building-Integrated Transparent Photovoltaics
The lab is building a 6x6 inch solar window that looks like a regular window. They coat glass with thin films of gold nanoparticles and attach solar cells to the edges to measure how much light is reflected, transmitted, and how much power is produced.
From the Spring 2025 UF Undergraduate Research Symposium · abstract book, p. 590
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Recent papers, explained
- Diagnosing the role of hydrogen bonding in the organization, aggregation, and optical properties of phthalhydrazide-functionalized molecules in solution and solid state
2025 · New Journal of Chemistry
Studies how hydrogen bonds affect the structure and properties of phthalhydrazide molecules.
- Dicyanorhodanine-Pyrrole Conjugates for Visible Light-Driven Quantitative Photoswitching in Solution and the Solid State
2024 · Journal of the American Chemical Society
Makes and tests light-switching molecules to see how they change in solution and solid form.
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- Structure–property relationships in dicyanopyrazinoquinoxalines and their hydrogen-bonding-capable dihydropyrazinoquinoxalinedione derivatives
2024 · Beilstein Journal of Organic Chemistry
Compares chemical and physical properties of two quinoxaline families to see how hydrogen bonding affects them.
- High efficiency organic photovoltaic cells employing hybridized mixed-planar heterojunctions
2023 · OSTI OAI (U.S. Department of Energy Office of Scientific and Technical Information)
Shows how mixing two materials in a solar cell can improve its efficiency.
- Thin film photovoltaic devices with microlens arrays
2023 · OSTI OAI (U.S. Department of Energy Office of Scientific and Technical Information)
Tests whether tiny lenses on solar panels can capture more light by bending it.
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