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Laura Herz

Laura Herz

Physicist

Laura Maria Herz FRS FInstP is a professor of physics at the University of Oxford. She works on femtosecond spectroscopy for the analysis of semiconductor materials.[1]

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Early life and education

Herz studied physics at the University of Bonn and graduated in 1999, first of her class.[2] She worked for two years as an exchange student at University of New South Wales.[3] She joined the University of Cambridge for her doctoral studies, earning a PhD in 2002.[2][4] Here she worked on exciton and polaron dynamics in organic semiconductors.[5]

Research and career

After her PhD, Herz was appointed a postdoctoral research fellow at St John's College, Cambridge, in 2001.[2] She was awarded an Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) Advanced Research Fellowship in 2006.[6] Herz became a professor in 2010.[2]

Herz is an expert in perovskite semiconductors.[7] She has researched the origins of the high charge-carrier mobilities in perovskite materials.[8] She demonstrated that their high efficiency in solar cells was due to long charge-carrier diffusion lengths and non-Langevin recombination.[9][10] She identified that perovskite light emission is broad and can be used in Ultrafast lasers.[11] She recognised that the origin of this broadening is Fröhlich coupling to longitudinal optical phonons.[12]

Herz is also interested in self-assembly and nanoscale effects.[13] She works on Biomimetics light harvesting structures made of porphyrin nanorings[14][15] to explore delocalised excited states.[16][17] She is the co-director of the Imperial College London Centre for Doctoral Training in Plastic Electronic Materials.[2]

She appeared on the BBC Radio 4 show In Our Time in 2015.[18] She will join University of Bayreuth in 2018 to deliver a series of lectures.[19]

In 2024, Herz was elected as Fellow of the Royal Society.

Awards and honours

Her awards and honours include:

References

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    Laura Herz publications indexed by Google Scholar Edit this at Wikidata
  2. [2]
    "CV – Laura M Herz". www-herz.physics.ox.ac.uk. Retrieved 17 September 2018.
  3. [3]
    "Public Seminar Laura Herz – 31 March 2016". School of Photovoltaic and Renewable Energy Engineering. 12 March 2016. Retrieved 17 September 2018.
  4. [4]
    Herz, Laura Maria (2002). Aggregation effects in conjugated polymer films studied by time-resolved photoluminescence spectroscopy. jisc.ac.uk (PhD thesis). University of Cambridge. OCLC 894595356. EThOS uk.bl.ethos.620191.
  5. [5]
    Silva, Carlos; Russell, David M.; Dhoot, Anoop S.; Herz, Laura M.; Daniel, Clément; Greenham, Neil C.; Arias, Ana C.; Setayesh, Sepas; Müllen, Klaus (2002). "Exciton and polaron dynamics in a step-ladder polymeric semiconductor: the influence of interchain order". Journal of Physics: Condensed Matter. 14 (42): 9803. Bibcode:2002JPCM...14.9803S. doi:10.1088/0953-8984/14/42/302. ISSN 0953-8984. S2CID 53595995.
  6. [6]
    "KAUST Solar Center Research Conference 2016". ksc.kaust.edu.sa. Retrieved 17 September 2018.
  7. [7]
    Johnston, Michael B.; Herz, Laura M. (10 December 2015). "Hybrid Perovskites for Photovoltaics: Charge-Carrier Recombination, Diffusion, and Radiative Efficiencies". Accounts of Chemical Research. 49 (1): 146–154. doi:10.1021/acs.accounts.5b00411. ISSN 0001-4842. PMID 26653572.
  8. [8]
    Herz, Laura M. (8 June 2017). "Charge-Carrier Mobilities in Metal Halide Perovskites: Fundamental Mechanisms and Limits". ACS Energy Letters. 2 (7): 1539–1548. doi:10.1021/acsenergylett.7b00276. ISSN 2380-8195.
  9. [9]
    UNSWSPREE (4 April 2016), UNSW SPREE 201603-31 Laura Herz – Charge-Carrier Diffusion in Hybrid Metal Halide Perovskites, retrieved 17 September 2018
  10. [10]
    Stranks, Samuel D.; Eperon, Giles E.; Grancini, Giulia; Menelaou, Christopher; Alcocer, Marcelo J. P.; Leijtens, Tomas; Herz, Laura M.; Petrozza, Annamaria; Snaith, Henry J. (2013). "Electron-Hole Diffusion Lengths Exceeding 1 Micrometer in an Organometal Trihalide Perovskite Absorber". Science. 342 (6156): 341–344. Bibcode:2013Sci...342..341S. doi:10.1126/science.1243982. ISSN 0036-8075. PMID 24136964. S2CID 10314803.
  11. [11]
    Eperon, Giles E.; Stranks, Samuel D.; Menelaou, Christopher; Johnston, Michael B.; Herz, Laura M.; Snaith, Henry J. (2014). "Formamidinium lead trihalide: a broadly tunable perovskite for efficient planar heterojunction solar cells". Energy & Environmental Science. 7 (3): 982. doi:10.1039/C3EE43822H. ISSN 1754-5692. S2CID 53576983.
  12. [12]
    Wright, Adam D.; Verdi, Carla; Milot, Rebecca L.; Eperon, Giles E.; Pérez-Osorio, Miguel A.; Snaith, Henry J.; Giustino, Feliciano; Johnston, Michael B.; Herz, Laura M. (26 May 2016). "Electron–phonon coupling in hybrid lead halide perovskites". Nature Communications. 7: 11755. Bibcode:2016NatCo...711755W. doi:10.1038/ncomms11755. ISSN 2041-1723. PMC 4894981. PMID 27225329.
  13. [13]
    "Speakers - IUPAC 2018". IUPAC 2018. Retrieved 17 September 2018.
  14. [14]
    Parkinson, Patrick; Kamonsutthipaijit, Nuntaporn; Anderson, Harry L.; Herz, Laura M. (17 May 2016). "Size-Independent Energy Transfer in Biomimetic Nanoring Complexes". ACS Nano. 10 (6): 5933–5940. doi:10.1021/acsnano.6b01265. ISSN 1936-0851. PMC 4928140. PMID 27176553.
  15. [15]
    Gong, Juliane Q.; Favereau, Ludovic; Anderson, Harry L.; Herz, Laura M. (8 January 2016). "Breaking the Symmetry in Molecular Nanorings". The Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters. 7 (2): 332–338. doi:10.1021/acs.jpclett.5b02617. ISSN 1948-7185. PMC 4745607. PMID 26735906.
  16. [16]
    Rousseaux, Sophie A. L.; Gong, Juliane Q.; Haver, Renée; Odell, Barbara; Claridge, Tim D. W.; Herz, Laura M.; Anderson, Harry L. (25 September 2015). "Self-Assembly of Russian Doll Concentric Porphyrin Nanorings". Journal of the American Chemical Society. 137 (39): 12713–12718. doi:10.1021/jacs.5b07956. ISSN 0002-7863. PMC 4655919. PMID 26378660.
  17. [17]
    Hoffmann, Markus; Kärnbratt, Joakim; Chang, Ming-Hua; Herz, Laura M.; Albinsson, Bo; Anderson, Harry L. (23 June 2008). "Enhanced π Conjugation around a Porphyrin[6] Nanoring". Angewandte Chemie International Edition. 47 (27): 4993–4996. doi:10.1002/anie.200801188. ISSN 1433-7851. PMID 18506860.
  18. [18]
    "Michael Faraday, In Our Time – BBC Radio 4". BBC. Retrieved 17 September 2018.
  19. [19]
    Bayreuth, Universität. "Leading researcher from Oxford comes to the University of Bayreuth". www.physik.uni-bayreuth.de. Retrieved 17 September 2018.
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    "New Fellows Announcement 2024".
  21. [21]
    Physics, Institute of. "2018 Nevill Mott Medal and Prize". www.iop.org. Retrieved 17 September 2018.
  22. [22]
    "Success for MPLS staff in Oxford University Student Union teaching awards — Mathematical Physical and Life Sciences Division". www.mpls.ox.ac.uk. Retrieved 17 September 2018.
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