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Jianbo Gao - Postdoc

Photo of Jianbo Gao
phone: 303-384-7688
email: Jianbo.Gao@nrel.gov
At NREL since 2009

Jianbo Gao received an M.Sc. from Jilin University, China, in 2000. He received a second M.Sc. and a Ph.D. from the Department of Physics at the University of Alberta, Canada, in 2009, with Prof. Frank A. Hegamnn as his thesis supervisor. His Ph.D. project is an investigatation of charge-carrier photogeneration and transport mechanisms in organic semiconductor thin films using sub-nanosecond transient and steady-state photoconductivity techniques.

Dr. Gao joined the Chemical and Nanoscale Sciences Group at NREL in August 2009. His research project at NREL involves developing nanocrystalline solar cells with the potential to exhibit high efficiency photoconversion.

Selected Publications

  1. J. Gao and F. A. Hegmann, “Bulk photoconductive gain in pentacene thin films,” Appl. Phys. Lett. 93, 223306 (2008).
  2. D. Lehnherr, J. Gao, F. A. Hegmann, and R. R. Tykwinski, “Synthesis and electronic properties of conjugated pentacene dimers,” Org. Lett. 10, 4779 (2008).
  3. D. Lehnherr, J. Gao, F. A. Hegmann, and R. R. Tykwinski, “Pentacene-based dendrimers: synthesis and thin film photoconductivity measurements of branched pentacene oligomers,” J. Org. Chem. 74, 5017 (2009).

Other Team Members

Arthur J. Nozik

Matthew C. Beard

Matt Bergren

Helen E. Chappell

Hsiang-Yu Chen

David C. Coffey

Smita Dayal

Randy J. Ellingson

Andrew J. Ferguson

Arthur J. Frank

Jianbo Gao

Brian A. Gregg

Alexander W Hains

Adam F. Halverson

Hugh W. Hillhouse

Roberta Hood

Barbara Hughes

Song-Rim Jang

Justin C. Johnson

Allison Kanarr

Soon Hyung Kang

Jae-Hun Kim

Jin Young Kim

Nikos Kopidakis

Ziqi Liang

Aaron Midgett

Nathan R. Neale

Matthew T. Rawls

Thomas H. Reilly III

Daniel Ruddy

Garry Rumbles

Octavi Escala Semonin

Danielle K. Smith

Eric Ryan Smith

Jao van de Lagemaat

Michael Woodhouse

Kai Zhu