Michael McGehee

Abstract

The opportunities for making low cost solar cells by printing organic semiconductors in roll to roll coating machines will be discussed. The design of the molecules and solar cell architecture, current state of the art performance and remaining challenges will all be covered.

Biography

Michael McGeheeMichael D. McGehee is an Associate Professor in the Materials Science and Engineering Department and  Director of the Center for Advanced Molecular Photovoltaics at Stanford University.  His research interests are patterning materials at the nanometer length scale, semiconducting polymers, large area electronics and renewable energy. He has taught courses on nanotechnology, organic semiconductors, polymer science and solar cells.

He received his undergraduate degree in physics from Princeton University and his PhD degree in Materials Science from the University of California at Santa Barbara, where he did research on polymer lasers in the lab of Nobel Laureate Alan Heeger.  He did postdoctoral research with Galen Stucky and Brad Chmelka at the University of California at Santa Barbara on the self-assembly of organic-inorganic mesostructures. 

He has won an MRS Graduate Student Gold Medal Award, an NSF CAREER Award, a Dupont Young Professor Award, a Henry and Camille Dreyfus New Faculty Award, the 2007 Materials Research Society Outstanding Young Investigator Award and the Mohr Davidow Innovators Award.