Brendan O'Connor boconnor@umich.edu Materials Science and Engineering Mechanical Engineering PhD Student

Personal Website
http://www-personal.umich.edu/~boconnor/

Research Focus
Fiber based organic optoelectronic devices have potential for low-cost reel-to-reel fabrication with the ability to be woven into textiles for large area energy interactive fabrics. Research includes device fabrication and optimization. For example, the non-planar fiber geometry open up opportunities for increased incident light absorption enhancing organic solar cell conversion efficiency.  

Publications

"Enhanced Optical Field Intensity Distribution in Organic Photovoltaics," submitted to Applied Physics Letters, (2006)

"Organic light-emitting device on a scanning probe cantilever," Applied Physics Letters, Vol. 89, pp. 111117 (2006).

"Fiber Shaped Light Emitting Device," Advanced Materials, Volume 19, Issue 22, Date: November, 2007, Pages: 3897-3900.

Awards

2008- MMPEI Graduate Fellowship

2008- MRS Silver Medal Award