We actively pursue understanding the physics of organic solar cells and light emitting diodes, creating novel devices, and inventing and using new characterization methods with a particular emphasis on applications to organic devices. Our work is by its very nature interdisciplinary – spanning physics, chemistry and materials science. The group consists of a mix of graduate and undergraduate students, as well as post docs from a number of disciplines.

Congratulations to Eliot Gann, who has accepted a Graduate Assistantship in Areas of National Need – Nanoscale Electronic and Energy Materials (GAANN-NEEM) Fellowship.

We have installed the new Cressington 308R evaporator/sputter coater inside our second glove box.  Once a few additional upgrades to the glove box are finished in the near future, this system will allow for complete fabrication of organic devices in a controlled environment. It is the first such system at NCSU.

first deposition!!

Congratulations to Hongping!!

These Fellowships enable students who have passed their Ph.D. qualifying or comprehensive verbal and written exams (generally third-year students) to acquire hands-on scientific training and develop professional maturity for independent research at the Advanced Light Source in Berkeley.  http://www.als.lbl.gov/als/fellowships/index.html

H. Ade gives invited talk at SRPS-4 meeting in Kerkrade, Netherlands

http://www.srps4.nl/index1.html

The interfaces of conjugated polyelectrolyte /poly[2-methoxy-5-(2'-ethylhexyloxy)-p-phenylene vinylene] bilayers cast from differential solvents are shown by resonant soft x-ray reflectivity to be very smooth and sharp. The chemical interdiffusion due to casting is limited to less than 0.6 nm and the interface created is thus nearly “molecularly” sharp.

The interfaces of conjugated polyelectrolyte /poly[2-methoxy-5-(2'-ethylhexyloxy)-p-phenylene vinylene] [...]

Brian Collins joins group as a Postdoctoral Associate.  He formerly obtained a B.A. degree in physics at Gustavus Adolphus College in St. Peter, MN, and his M.S. and Ph.D. at the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill, NC where he completed his dissertation on Synchrotron X-ray Studies on Structural and Chemical Ordering [...]