Experimental Automation
- Robotic deposition and sample preparation
- Automated optoelectronic characterisation
- High-throughput experimental protocols
- Closed-loop experimental control
- Laboratory automation and instrumentation
Pillar 02
The discovery of next-generation energy materials is increasingly limited not by ideas, but by the speed at which scientific hypotheses can be tested experimentally. Exploring the vast compositional and processing spaces of modern semiconductors requires new experimental paradigms that combine automation, advanced characterisation and intelligent decision-making. Our research addresses this challenge by developing autonomous experimental workflows that integrate robotics, real-time measurements and artificial intelligence within a unified closed-loop framework.
Scientific Data Hub
Every experiment enriches a continuously evolving repository of multimodal data, physical knowledge and experimental metadata. This living resource enables more accurate AI models, reproducible science and increasingly intelligent autonomous scientific workflows.
Rather than treating experiments as isolated results and automating experiments for their own sake, EMHL transforms every measurement into reusable scientific knowledge. Experimental observations continuously inform computational models, while AI proposes the next most informative experiments, creating a unified closed-loop framework that learns from every iteration. By integrating experimental data, simulations, material libraries and analytical workflows within a structured scientific data infrastructure, the Data Hub accelerates device optimisation, improves reproducibility and enables more efficient exploration of complex materials systems. As the laboratory learns from every experiment, its predictive models become more capable, its autonomous workflows more efficient, and its scientific understanding progressively deeper.
Core questions
How can autonomous scientific workflows accelerate the discovery of next-generation energy materials?
How can intelligent experimentation optimise complex materials and devices more efficiently?
How can robotics, advanced characterisation and AI work together within closed-loop experimental platforms?
How can every experiment become reusable scientific knowledge for future discovery?
Approach
Selected projects
Optimising Ultra-Wide-Bandgap Perovskites for Triple-Junction Solar Cells
Autonomous Discovery of Molecular Additives and Charge-Transport Layers
Lead-Free Perovskites for Unconventional Devices
Integrating Emerging Photovoltaic Semiconductors
Collaborations
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