Contact Information
MIT Department of Chemistry
Room 6-234B
Cambridge, MA 02139
mit.edu email: ehontz
Year joined: 2010
Education
2010 | BS in Chemistry | Temple University | Advisor: Frank Spano |
2008 | AA | Lehigh Carbon Community College |
Research Interests
Singlet Fission
Singlet fission is the process in which a singlet exciton spontaneously splits into two triplet excitons. With enough fine-tuning, singlet fission can increase the maximum solar cell efficiency by 40%. I work closely with our collaborators in the engineering department and use physical models to explain their experimental data and extract yield values for the processes important to a singlet fission solar cell. Additionally, I am using the fundamentals of electronic structure to design and/or identify molecules capable of singlet fission.