Rate My Professor Wanyi Nie

Nie's research focuses on novel semiconductors, encompassing organo-metal halide perovskites, metal organic frameworks, organic semiconductors, and low band gap nanocrystals. Her work extends to opto-electronic device integrations, including light-emitting diodes, X-ray imaging devices, low-energy consuming computation devices, and infrared imaging systems. Additional areas of interest include spintronics, with emphasis on spin injection at interfaces and polarized photoemission, as well as photovoltaics for clean energy applications. At the University at Buffalo, her laboratory investigates semiconductor radiation detectors for photon counting and imaging, nanostructured semiconductors for light emitters, chiral semiconductors, and solution-grown photovoltaics. Nie has authored influential publications such as "High-efficiency solution-processed perovskite solar cells with millimeter-scale grains" (Science, 2015), "High-efficiency two-dimensional Ruddlesden–Popper perovskite solar cells" (Nature, 2016), and "Extremely efficient internal exciton dissociation through edge states in layered 2D perovskites" (Science, 2017). She contributes to the field as a member of the editorial board for APL Electronic Devices.