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Fremont, Ca, Us

Fremont, California, United States

Fremont, California

Greater Chicago Area

• Conducted research on structure-property relationships in materials for organic solar cells. Fabricated and optimized devices to achieve maximum performance and conducted mechanistic studies; • Developed a ternary blend organic solar cell system with a non-fullerene electron acceptor which has power conversion efficiency over 10% and deduced a mechanism of efficiency enhancement. This work resulted in a first author publication;• Applied principles of solar cell materials design to… Show more • Conducted research on structure-property relationships in materials for organic solar cells. Fabricated and optimized devices to achieve maximum performance and conducted mechanistic studies; • Developed a ternary blend organic solar cell system with a non-fullerene electron acceptor which has power conversion efficiency over 10% and deduced a mechanism of efficiency enhancement. This work resulted in a first author publication;• Applied principles of solar cell materials design to other types of devices and in collaboration with synthetic scientists developed a system with decreased dark current for organic near-IR photodetectors;• Assembled system for photodetector’s quantum efficiency testing experiments under bias and microsecond response time measurements;• Managed collaborations with theoretical research groups and teamwork within the group with organic synthesis colleagues;• Designed, negotiated hardware purchasing deals with suppliers and set up facilities for fabrication and testing of light emitting transistors. Show less

Greater Chicago Area

• Prepared weekly discussion sessions, lecture reviews and supervised lab experiments in sections with a total of 30+ undergraduate students in General Chemistry courses• Received excellent teaching reviews with the average score of 4.85/5 in 2017/2018 academic year

• Prepared discussion sessions, lecture reviews and supervised lab experiments in sections with a total of 70+ undergraduate students in General Chemistry and Organic Chemistry courses

Doctor Of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Chemistry

Dissertation: "Exploration of Organic Materials for Light-Harvesting and Light-Emitting Optoelectronic Devices". Advisor: Prof. Luping Yu

Master Of Science - Ms, Physical Chemistry

Master Of Science - Ms, Organic Chemistry, With Honors

Bachelor Of Science - Bs, Organic Chemistry, With Honors

Chairman of the Student Council at the Department of Chemistry (2011-2013) Member of the university Student Council executive committee.