Anne Watson is the winner of this year’s McCormick Award for Undergraduate Research in Physics for her work bringing Organic Thin Film Transistors to the Ade lab, as well as for an investigation into how the morphology of P3HT in different solvents affects OTFT device peformance. The award is presented annually to a graduating senior in physics recognizing outstanding undergraduate research, and is one of three senior awards given annual to graduating seniors from NC State in the Physics Department.
Our article ”Polarized X-ray scattering reveals non-crystalline orientational ordering in organic films” is now officially published in Nature Materials. Combining molecular resonances with orientation-sensitive polarization of x-rays, we have used scattering to measure the lengthscale and intensity with which small molecules and polymers order in thin films prepared identical to devices such as organic field effect transistors and organic solar cells. Notably, this technique is sensitive to both crystalline and non-crystalline material and is able to probe for ordering in material that diffraction techniques cannot reach.
Our original study investigating the miscibiltiy between P3HT and PCBM, published in October 2010, has been recognized in the Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters as one of its most cited papers. According to CrossRefs, it is the second most cited research paper in the journal. The work reports the discovery that electron donor and acceptor [...]
The Ade group citation rate has surpassed for the first time 500 citations/year in 2011 (using NCSU subscription to the Web of Science database). The total might increase slightly further as the final tally for 2011 is compiled by WoS. – A heartfelt “Thank You” to all students, posts docs and collaborators who have [...]
Postdoctoral associate, John Tumbleston, received a $500 poster award at this year’s Fall Materials Research Society meeting in Boston. Over the course of the week long meeting, 2400 posters were presented with only 16 awards given. His poster titled, “Compositional Variations in Nanoimprinted Bulk Heterojunction Organic Photoactive Layers Used in Light Trapping Device Architectures” [...]
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.
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Anne Watson is the winner of this year’s McCormick Award for Undergraduate Research in Physics for her work bringing Organic Thin Film Transistors to the Ade lab, as well as for an investigation into how the morphology of P3HT in different solvents affects OTFT device peformance. The award is presented annually to a graduating senior in physics recognizing outstanding undergraduate research, and is one of three senior awards given annual to graduating seniors from NC State in the Physics Department.
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Our article ”Polarized X-ray scattering reveals non-crystalline orientational ordering in organic films” is now officially published in Nature Materials. Combining molecular resonances with orientation-sensitive polarization of x-rays, we have used scattering to measure the lengthscale and intensity with which small molecules and polymers order in thin films prepared identical to devices such as organic field effect transistors and organic solar cells. Notably, this technique is sensitive to both crystalline and non-crystalline material and is able to probe for ordering in material that diffraction techniques cannot reach.
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Our original study investigating the miscibiltiy between P3HT and PCBM, published in October 2010, has been recognized in the Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters as one of its most cited papers. According to CrossRefs, it is the second most cited research paper in the journal. The work reports the discovery that electron donor and acceptor [...]
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The Ade group citation rate has surpassed for the first time 500 citations/year in 2011 (using NCSU subscription to the Web of Science database). The total might increase slightly further as the final tally for 2011 is compiled by WoS. – A heartfelt “Thank You” to all students, posts docs and collaborators who have [...]
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Postdoctoral associate, John Tumbleston, received a $500 poster award at this year’s Fall Materials Research Society meeting in Boston. Over the course of the week long meeting, 2400 posters were presented with only 16 awards given. His poster titled, “Compositional Variations in Nanoimprinted Bulk Heterojunction Organic Photoactive Layers Used in Light Trapping Device Architectures” [...]
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Congratulations Eliot. Job well done!
His talk was on “Elucidating Buried Interface Structure: The Development of Index-Matched Soft X-ray Scattering.” The Powerpoint file is available here: Eliot’s prelim presentation.
more→Work by the Ade research group has been featured in the 2010 ALS Spectrum. This work is 1 of just a few to be highlighted, out of a total of 600 publications in 2010. The work of former group member Cheng Wang (now at ALS) is also featured in the publication.
more→Graduate student Jaewook Seok has graduated and is now working for Intel. Congratulatins Jaewook!
Undergraduate student Anne Watson and graduate student Terry McAfee joined the group. Post docs John Tumbelston and Wei Ma join the research group. Welcome on-board!
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Postdoc Brian Collins gave a highlight talk at the Plenary Session of the 2011 ALS User Meeting, discribing our recent work on polarization dependent resonant soft x-ray scattering (P-SoXS and R-SoXS). His talk was titled “Unique Contrast Mechanisms Using Resonant X-Ray Scattering: The Key to Nanoscale Insight in Organic Devices”
At the meeting H. [...]
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