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Group Awards, Recognition, and Research in the News: 2009 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 (2009) Kevin Noone receives an NSF IGERT fellowship from the Center for Nanotechnology congrats Kevin! (June 2009) 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) 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 appears in ACS Nano (May 2009) Yeechi Chen and Joseph Wei both successfully defend their PhD theses Congratulations to Dr. Chen and Dr. Wei (March 2009) Kevin Noone's perspective article in ACS Nano appears online (Feb 2009) Kevin Noone wins 1st place poster prize at MDITR retreat for his poster on quantum dot blends as solar cell materials (Feb 2009) Guozheng Shao and Kristina Knesting officially join the group as first year grad students (2009) 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. 2008 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! (July 2008) Obadiah Reid's Nano Letters paper on high-resolution carrier mobility measurements in conjugated polymer films used in solar cells is covered in an online article at Semiconductor International 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! (June 2008) Obadiah Reid receives a 2007-2008 NSF IGERT nanotech fellowship! Congrats Obi! (June 2008) David Ginger receives ACS Unilever Award at Colloid and Surface Science Symposium (June 16, 2008) Brad MacLeod receives a Carl Storm travel fellowship to the Gordon Research Conference! Congrats Brad! (May 2008) Undergraduate Jessica M. Smith accepts offer to PhD program in chemistry at UC Berkeley (April 2008) Group ski trip to Steven's Pass was Friday March 21, 2008 Science runs an article on alternative PV technologies David Ginger gives the Nanophotonics for Breakfast lecture at Ranier Club on solar energy and photovoltaics (Feb 6, 2008) 2007 Dr. Liam S. C. Pingree receives competitive EMPD Postdoctoral Fellow Travel Award (Sept. 2007) Brad MacLeod awarded a full NSF Graduate Research Fellowship! Go Brad! (July 2007) Prof. Lee Park (Williams College) arrives on sabbatical (July 2007) Andrea Munro is one of 5 top-level student award winners for the AVS for 2007 (June 2007) Obadiah Reid wins competitive nanotech IGERT fellowship (June 2007) David Ginger is named a Camille Dreyfus Teacher-Scholar (May 2007) Dr. Liam S. C. Pingree awarded NSF Discovery Corps Fellowship (May 2007) David Coffey passes his Ph.D. oral defense! Congratulations Dr. Coffey! (May 8 2007) 2006 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 (Apr. 2006) David Coffey writes for SPIE Newsroom on plastic solar cells (Apr. 2006) Undergraduate Ilan Jen-La Plante accepts offer to PhD program in chemistry at UC Berkeley (April 2007) 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 (March 2007) Ilan Jen-La Plante receives a Mary Gates Endowment for students research training grant for undergraduate research (March 2007) David Ginger is one of the 2007 Sloan Research Fellowship Award Winners from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation (Feb 2007) 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 highlighted at optics.org (Sept. 2006) David Ginger receives a Cottrell Scholar Award from the Research Corporation (June 2006) Andrea Munro awarded UIF Fellowship in Nanotechnology for 2006-2007 year (June 2006) 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 2005 Andrea Munro wins best poster prize at the MDITR retreat (Tucson, AZ, Feb 2005) Andrea Munro awarded NSF IGERT fellowship in nanoscience (Nov. 2005) 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 Nanolithograph" (Sept. 2005) 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) (Jun 13, 2005) photo Andrea Munro elected vice-president of UW nanotech student association (Jun 2005) Andrea Munro awarded competitive UIF Nanotech Fellowship (Jun 2005) David Ginger receives NSF CAREER award (Jan 2005) I-Kang Ding receives The Dean's Award from his home institution of National Taiwan University (June 2004) David Coffey receives competitive renewal of his Nanotech-IGERT
Fellowship (June 2004) Andrea Munro recognized in national
NSF Fellowship Competition (March 18, 2004) Upcoming and Past Presentations by Group Members: Fall MRS Meeting (invited) Dec 2009, Boston, MA David Ginger 56th AVS Meeting (invited) Nov 8-13 2009, San Jose, CA David Ginger Rice University Chemistry (invited) August 26, 2009, Houston, TX David Ginger ICMAT2009 (invited) June 28-July 3, 2009, Singapore David Ginger Molecular Plasmonics 2009 (invited), May 14-16, 2009, Jena, Germany, David Ginger Indiana University, Chemistry May 5, 2009 David Ginger University of Texas at Austin, April 24, 2009, David Ginger U.C. Berkeley Nanoscience and Nanoengineering Institute April 3, 2009, Berkeley, CA David Ginger Cornell Center for Nanoscale Systems, April 1, 2009, Ithaca, NY David Ginger ACS 237th National Meeting (symposium co-organizer) March 22-26, Salt Lake City, UT David Ginger Utah Physics Colloquium Feb. 26, 2009, Salt Lake City, UT David Ginger Fall MRS Meeting (invited) Dec. 2009, Boston, MA David Ginger Stanford MSE Colloquium Nov. 14, 2008, Stanford, CA David Ginger NIST/DOE-EERE Workshop on Combinatorial Materials Science for Energy Nov. 6-7, 2008, Gaithersburg, MA David Ginger National Academy of Sciences Chinese-American Frontiers of Science Oct 2-4, 2008 David Ginger to speak on energy and photovoltaics APCTP-ASEAN Workshop on Advanced Materials Sept. 15-21 2008 Nha Trang, Vietnam David Ginger ACS Fall Meeting, 2008 Aug. 17 2008 Philadelphia, PA David Ginger Transatlantic Frontiers in Chemistry July 31-Aug 3 2008 Cheshire, U.K. David Ginger Gordon Conference July 20-25 Mount Holyoke College, South Hadley MA Liam Pingree, Obadiah Reid, Kevin Noone (posters) ICN+T 2008 (invited) July 21-25, 2008 Keystone, CO David Ginger ACS Colloid and Surface Science Symposium (invited--award presentation) June 17, 2008 Raleigh, NC David Ginger University of Pittsburgh May 16, 2008, Pittsburgh, PA David Ginger UC Riverside May 5, 2008, Riverside CA David Ginger University of Montreal, Physics Apr 13, 2008 Montreal, Quebec David Ginger University of Michigan, MSE Apr 10, 2008 Ann Arbor, MI David Ginger Spring ACS Meeting Apr. 6-9, 2008 New Orleans, LA David Ginger, Lee Park, Keiko Munechika University of Minnesota, Chem. Dept. Apr. 3, 2008 Minneapolis, MN David Ginger Georgia Tech, Chemistry Dept. Feb 28, 2008 Atlanta, GA David Ginger Claremont Colleges Nov. 13, 2007 Claremont, CA David Ginger Purdue University, Biomedical engineering Oct. 31, 2007 Claremont, CA David Ginger Reed College Oct. 11, 2007 Portland OR David Ginger American Vacuum Society 54th Mtg (invited) Oct. 14-19, 2007, Seattle, WA David Ginger Optical Society of America (invited) Sep. 16-20, 2007, San Jose, CA, Sep. 16-20, 2007, San Jose, CA, David Ginger Nanyang Technological University, Mat. Sci. & Eng. (invited) Sep. 7, 2007, Singapore, David Ginger Peking Univeristy, Physics Dept. (invited) Sep. 5, 2007, Beijing, China, David Ginger Materials Today Asia (invited) Sep. 3-5, 2007, Beijing, China, David Ginger Asylum Research (invited) Jun 18, Santa Barbara, CA, David Ginger E-MRS (invited, symp E) May 28-Jun. 1, Strasbourg, France, David Ginger FNANO'07 (invited) Apr. 9-13, 2007, San Francisco, CA David Ginger 2007 Spring MRS Meeting (invited) Apr. 9-13, 2007, San Francisco, CA David Ginger, Yeechi Chen, Keiko Munechika Univeristy of New Mexico Physics and Astronomy (invited) Mar. 30, 2007, Albuquerque, NM David Ginger UCSB Materials Research Lab (invited) March 9, 2007, Santa Barbara, CA David Ginger 2nd International Advanced Materials Forum (invited) Feb. 18-23, 2007, NIMS, Japan David Ginger 2006 Fall MRS Meeting Nov. 27-Dec. 1, 2006, Boston, Andrea Munro, Keiko Munechika, David Coffey and David Ginger 232nd ACS National Meeting (invited) Sept. 10-14, San Francisco, CA David Ginger Gordon Conference: Electronic Processes in Organic Materials (invited), Jul. 31-Aug 4, 2006, MA David Ginger 2006 ACS Northwest Regional Meeting (invited), Jun. 25-28, 2006 Reno, NV, David Ginger MDITR Photonics Retreat, Feb 22-25, 2006, Tucson, AZ, David Ginger, David Coffey, Andrea Munro Santa Clara University (invited) Feb 3, 2006, Santa Clara, CA, David Ginger 2005 MRS Fall Meeting, Nov. 2005, Boston, MA, David Ginger, David Coffey, Joseph Wei Nanoscale Science and Tech Workshop, Sept. 2005, Seattle, WA, David Coffey DigiFab 2005 (invited), Sept. 2005, Baltimore, MD, David Ginger 2005 MRS Spring Meeting, March 2005, San Francisco, CA, David Coffey 229th
ACS National Meeting, UW
Chemical Engineering Dept. Seminar (invited), Nanotechnology
Workshop, ACS
National Meeting (invited) Electronic
Proc. in Organic Mat. Gordon Conf., Jul. 25-30, David Coffey ASME 2004
“Nano Training Bootcamp (invited) Jun. 30- ACS Northwest/Rocky
Mountain Meeting, Mary Gates Undergraduate
Research Symposium, AFOSR DPN
Workshop: Jan. 26-27, Duck Key, Molecular
Electronics Workshop, Dec. 17-19, 2003 (invited) UW Physics: Nov. 18, 2003, 4pm Physics C421 Open Positions: PhD positions are available for graduate students who have been admitted to the University of Washington. Please contact Prof. Ginger directly to discuss potential research projects. Students who have not been admitted to UW should consult the application procedures Postdoctoral positions: no positions are immediately open. These pages are under construction. Please check back frequently and be sure to visit my departmental homepage. |
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