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Autonomous Discovery

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.

Building the scientific memory of tomorrow's laboratories.

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.

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    How can autonomous scientific workflows accelerate the discovery of next-generation energy materials?

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    How can intelligent experimentation optimise complex materials and devices more efficiently?

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    How can robotics, advanced characterisation and AI work together within closed-loop experimental platforms?

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    How can every experiment become reusable scientific knowledge for future discovery?

Experimental Automation

  • Robotic deposition and sample preparation
  • Automated optoelectronic characterisation
  • High-throughput experimental protocols
  • Closed-loop experimental control
  • Laboratory automation and instrumentation

Intelligent Experimentation

  • Bayesian optimisation
  • Active learning
  • Adaptive experimental design
  • Multi-objective optimisation
  • Uncertainty-aware decision making

Scientific Data Infrastructure

  • Structured scientific databases
  • Experimental metadata management
  • Materials libraries
  • FAIR scientific data
  • Open and reproducible workflows
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    Optimising Ultra-Wide-Bandgap Perovskites for Triple-Junction Solar Cells

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    Autonomous Discovery of Molecular Additives and Charge-Transport Layers

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    Lead-Free Perovskites for Unconventional Devices

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    Integrating Emerging Photovoltaic Semiconductors

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