Members

Faculty

Guillermo Bazan

CPOS Director and Professor

Chemistry & Biochemistry, Materials

Polymer design, synthesis and processing.

Alan Heeger

Professor

Physics, Materials

Semiconducting and metallic polymers with focus on high mobility field effect transistors and low cost “plastic” solar cells.

Thuc-Quyen Nguyen

Professor

Chemistry & Biochemistry

Organic semiconducting materials for molecular electronics and optoelectronic devices.

Fred Wudl

Research Professor

Chemistry & Biochemistry, Materials

Organic & Bioorganic; Materials Chemistry; Molecular Design & Synthesis; Devices, Assembly & Nanochemistry

Postdoctoral Researchers

Piotr Hanczyc

Postdoctoral Researcher

Biophotonics in material science with focus on amyloid fibrils nad DNA.

Morpholocial and interfacial controls on organic semiconductors to form long term order and preferential electronic structures toward high efficiency electronic and optoelectronic devices such as high mobility polymer transistors, light emitting transistors, and electrically-pump organic lasers.

Yuanyuan Hu

Postdoctoral Researcher

Developing organic ratchet devices and understanding the device physics in them.

Seo-Jin Ko

Postdoctoral Scholar

Multi-junction solar cells based on conjugated polymers.

Byoung Hoon Lee

Postdoctoral Researcher

High mobility organic field-effect transistors.

Chan Luo

Postdoctoral Researcher

High mobility organic field-effect transistors.

Hung Phan

Postdoctoral Scholar

Investigate molecular assembly and charge transport in high-mobility polymer field-effect transistors.

Niva Ran

Postdoctoral Researcher

Charge transfer state (CTS) and luminescence from organic solar cells.

Lijiao Ren

Postdoctoral Scholar

Charge transport in biofilm.

Bing Wang

Postdoctoral Researcher

Design and synthesis of conjugated oligoelectrolytes for biological applications.

Ming Wang

Postdoctoral Researcher

Chemistry

Polymer solar cells and field-effect transistors.

Visiting Researchers

Shinuk Cho

Visiting Scientist

Organic Electronics (Solar Cells, FETs), Materials Physics (2D materials)

Jin Young Kim

Visisting Assistant Researcher

Polymer solar cells, colloidal quantum dot solar cells, and hybrid optoelectronic devices.

David Vonlanthan

Visiting Scholar

Physics

Design, synthesis and processing of polymers and small molecules with focus on ionic and electronic conductivity for high-energy density and power storage. "Low-cost" batteries and supercapacitors.

Zichao Zhang

Visiting Student

Physical Chemistry

Chengmei Zhong

Junior Specialist

Ultrafast spectroscopy studies on organic materials and devices.

Graduate Students

David Cao

Graduate Student

Materials Chemistry

cAFM and thermoelectric devices.

Michael Ford

Graduate Student Researcher

Materials

Device and structural characterization of aligned and multicomponent semiconductor systems.

Stephanie Fronk

Graduate Student Researcher

Chemistry

Synthesis of conjugated polymers and oligomers for organic photovoltaic and thermoelectric applications.

Jianfei Huang

Graduate Student

Materials, Physics

OFET and organic ratchets.

Michael Hughes

Graduate Student

Materials, Chemistry

Processing and characterization of organic solar cells.

Akchheta Karki

Graduate Student

Chemistry

Alexander Lill

Graduate Student

Materials Chemistry

Molecular assembly of high mobility polymers in organic field effect transistors (OFET)

Ben Luginbuhl

Graduate Student

Materials Chemistry

Understanding the causes and effects of electronic traps in organic semiconductor devices, including organic photovoltaic cells, organic LEDs, and organic field-effect transistors.