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Walking Through a Solar Cell in AR

Nanometre-scale scans, turned into something you can walk around.

Walking Through a Solar Cell in AR
My role
Undergraduate researcher
When
Sep 2023 – May 2024
Where
Nano/Human Interfaces Presidential Initiative, Lehigh University
Tools
AFM data · 3-D CAD · AR visualization

My first research role at Lehigh. An atomic force microscope maps a surface with nanometre resolution, but the result is a flat height map that is hard to read. I turned scans of perovskite solar-cell surfaces into 3-D models and built an augmented-reality view so you can walk around the surface and look at it from any angle.