Materials Discovery
Recent advances in materials research have produced materials with a high variability of elements or compounds. The comprehensive investigation of these future functional materials requires many hands … or lab automation. The Energy Materials Acceleration Platform (E-MAP) was invented to speed-up materials screening for thin-film photovoltaics and other optoelectronic applications. In addition to high experimental throughput, the system warrants best reproducibility of the experiments through strictly defined experimental conditions.
The E-MAP is encapsulated in a glovebox system which allows the handling of sensitive materials and helps to maintain the experimental conditions. The system is fully modular, allowing users to develop their own characterization equipment or experiments and take advantage of the E-MAP's unique plug-in capabilities. Thin film deposition is achieved by solution processing. The system is continuously being expanded to include all standard thin-film characterization techniques.
