Autumn 2009: Prospective PhD students interested in working on nanostructured solar cells, plasmonics, or quantum dot surface chemistry should check out our publications to learn more about what we have done recently, and are encouraged to start coming to our weekly group meetings. Please contact David Ginger directly -- we have a number of positions, but preference will be given to those making contact early.

Autumn 2009: Undergraduate research positions are available on solar energy and nanotechnology projects. Students looking to conduct research should be able to commit an average of 15 hours per week to a project for one year. Interested students should send a resume and unofficial transcript to David Ginger by email indicating what research topics from our website they find most interesting.

Press Release describing our recent Nano Letters paper and how we use nanoscale imaging tools like photoconductive atomic force microscopy (pcAFM) to help better understand the operation of plastic solar cells is covered by dozens of outlets including:
Scientific American
Chemie.de
Photonics Online
Laser Focus World
Business Week Business Exchange
The DOE Office of Science Front Page (full article here)

Dr. Liam Pingree's (now at Boeing) paper that images the evolution of transport and photocurrent collection networks during processing of bulk heterojunction solar cells appears online in Nano Letters

Kevin Noone receives an NSF IGERT fellowship from the Center for Nanotechnology congrats Kevin!

Undergrad researchers Nick Anderson and Noah Horwitz both receive departmental awards. Nick the Merck Index award (for 2009), and Noah the CRC Freshman Achievement Award (for 2008, recognized at the 2009 awards banquet). With offers from schools including Berkeley, Northwestern, and Columbia, Nick heads to Columbia to study for his PhD.

Dr. Abhishek Kulkarni's paper on phase transfer of silver nanoprisms appears online in Langmuir and Kevin Noone's paper about charge transfer in PbSe/conjugated polymer blends (and the implications for IR-sensitized quantum dot solar cells using nanocrystal/polymer blends) appears in ACS Nano

Yeechi Chen and Joseph Wei both successfully defend their PhD theses. Congratulations to Dr. Chen and Dr. Wei

Kevin Noone's short perspective article on nanocrystal quantum dot photodetectors and solar cells is published in ACS Nano

Kevin Noone wins 1st place poster prize at MDITR retreat for his poster on quantum dot blends as solar cell materials

Guozheng Shao and Kristina Knesting officially join the group as first year grad students

Dr. Liam Pingree's invited review of scanning probe microscopy on organic electronics and solar cells appears in Advanced Materials. Summer student Irene Wang's artwork graces the issue.

Brad MacLeod travels (fully funded!) to India in December to participate in the NSF International Winter School for Graduates on solar energy and organic materials.

Obadiah Reid's Nano Letters paper on high-resolution carrier mobility measurements in conjugated polymer films for solar cells is covered in an online article at Semiconductor International

Kristina Knesting joins the group as in incoming summer PhD student. Welcome Kristina!

Andrea Munro is one of only 5 nationwide winners of a 2-year $200,000 postdoctoral fellowship! Congratulations Andrea!!!

Andrey Malyutin and Irene Wang join the group as summer REU students. Welcome Andrey and Irene!

Obadiah Reid receives a 2007-2008 NSF IGERT nanotech fellowship! Congrats Obi!

David Ginger receives ACS Unilever Award at Colloid and Surface Science Symposium

Brad MacLeod receives a Carl Storm travel fellowship to the Gordon Research Conference! Congrats Brad!

Undergraduate Jessica M. Smith accepts offer to PhD program in chemistry at UC Berkeley

Group ski trip to Steven's Pass

David Ginger gives the Nanophotonics for Breakfast lecture at Rainier Club on solar energy and photovoltaics

Dr. Liam S. C. Pingree receives competitive EMPD Postdoctoral Fellow Travel Award

Brad MacLeod awarded a full NSF Graduate Research Fellowship! Go Brad!

Prof. Lee Park (Williams College) arrives on sabbatical

Andrea Munro is one of 5 top-level student award winners for the AVS for 2007

Obadiah Reid wins competitive nanotech IGERT fellowship

David Ginger is named a Camille Dreyfus Teacher-Scholar

Dr. Liam S. C. Pingree awarded NSF Discovery Corps Fellowship

David Coffey passes his Ph.D. oral defense! Congratulations Dr. Coffey!

David Coffey and Obadiah Reid's Nano Letters Paper on photoconductive AFM of polymer solar cells, is covered in the MRS Bulletin (May 2007 v32 p383), and is featured in Photonics Spectra

David Coffey writes for SPIE Newsroom on plastic solar cells

Undergraduate Ilan Jen-La Plante accepts offer to PhD program in chemistry at UC Berkeley

Obadiah Reid wins best presentation award at the 2007 CNT Student Symposium, along with a free trip to the PNNL-sponsored Micro Nano Breakthrough Conference

Ilan Jen-La Plante receives a Mary Gates Endowment for students research training grant for undergraduate research

David Coffey was awarded a Materials Research Society Graduate Student Silver award at the Fall 2006 meeting in Boston for his work on studying the impact of film morphology on polymer photovoltaic performance with novel scanning probe microscopy methods.

David Coffey receives GSAS scholarship with full funding to travel to advanced solar cells workshop held in Hsinchu and Taipei, Taiwan Sept. 19-29, 2006

David Coffey's Nature Material's Paper on EFM of polymer solar cells, covered in News and Views, and also highlightedat optics.org

David Ginger receives a Cottrell Scholar Award from the Research Corporation

Andrea Munro awarded UIF Fellowship in Nanotechnology for 2006-2007 year

Quantum Dot LED work featured in Photonics Spectra (April 2006, p90) and MRS Bulletin (April 2006 p 290) postdoc Jialong Zhao, Ph.D., Andrea Munro, and former undergrad I-Kang Ding are all coauthors along with our collaborators from the Jen group in MSE.

Andrea Munro wins best poster prize at the MDITR retreat(Tucson, AZ)

Andrea Munro awarded NSF IGERT fellowship in nanoscience

Joseph Wei and David Coffey both receive poster prize nominations at Fall 2005 MRS Meeting

Joseph Wei wins best poster prize at the CNT Symposium for his poster "Controlling Pattern Formation in Polymer Blend Films with Dip-Pen Nanolithography"

Andrea Munro wins third prize in CNT contest for designing nanotech education materials for high school students (Science For Success Program)

David Ginger receives PECASE Award (AFOSR Sponsored) photo

Andrea Munro elected vice-president of UW nanotech student association

Andrea Munro awarded competitive UIFNanotech Fellowship

Peter Salveson receives a Mary Gates Endowment for students research training grant for undergraduate research

David Ginger receives NSF CAREER award

I-Kang Ding receives The Dean's Award from his home institution of National Taiwan University

David Coffey receives competitive renewal of his Nanotech-IGERT Fellowship

Andrea Munro recognized in national NSF Fellowship Competition