Organic Semitransparent Photovoltaic Energy Converter (OSPEC)

Ye Zhang is a Ph.D. candidate in Z.V. Vardeny's group at the University of Utah. He is currently doing research on solution-based polymer/fullerene photovoltaic devices with enhanced power conversion efficiency. He will receive his Ph.D. degree by Feb 2010. His past research experiences include organic matter computer modeling and organic IR detector. He received his M.S. and B.S. degrees in Materials Science from Missouri State University and Fudan University, China respectively

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