One reason many teams of researchers are working to make electrical components from organic, or carbon-based, materials is these materials are inexpensive to manufacture. more

Current research areas include the following: Organic transistors and circuits including nano-scale device and materials phenomena; conjugated organic and polymer semiconductor based chemical and biological sensors and sensor circuits; organic displays; organic laser and photonic crystal laser physics; organic memories and hybrid organic-silicon circuits and systems.

I am a third year physics graduate student at UT, and my main focus in Dr. Dodabalapur's group is organic photovoltaics. I actually joined Dr. Dodabalapur's group specifically to work on this project. I'm very excited about the potential for doing some interesting research and making progress in the field of renewable energies. I moved to Austin from Conway, Arkansas, where I got my B.A. in physics at Hendrix College. I've conducted research as an undergrad at Hendrix, the University of Arkansas at Little Rock, the University of Florida, and the University of Chicago. Some of my interests are traveling, bicycling, and playing golf and tennis.

Yeon Taek Jeong is a Material Science & Engineering graduate student. I am from Korea and joined Dr. Dodabalapur's group fall 2003. My current research area is organic sensing, which is very attractive with lots of things to be done. It is expected that I will complete my master's thesis this semester (spring 2005) and will continue to PhD. I am very happy to study here in Austin, the best city in America.

I am a third year graduate student in the Department of Electrical Engineering at UT. I graduated with a bachelor's degree in Electronics and Telecommunications Engineering from the University of Pune, India, before commencing my graduate studies at UT in the fall of 2002. I joined Dr. Dodabalapur's group in summer 2003 and was involved in research on organic transistors. I earned my master's degree in May 2004 and am currently working towards a PhD. My area of research is microfluidics. Some of my other interests are star-gazing, traveling and music. I enjoy playing cricket and following other sports such as Formula 1, American Football and tennis.

Byungwook Yoo received the B.S. degree in ceramic engineering from the Yonsei
University, Seoul, Korea, in 2000, and the M.S. degree in material engineering
from the University of Texas, Austin in 2003. He is currently pursuing the
Ph.D. degree in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering,
University of Texas, Austin. His current research interests are focused on the
process integration and device characteristics of organic thin-film transistors
as well as self-assembled monolayer.

Dan Fine

Alumni:

Liang Wang, Ph.D., 2005

Brenton Buxton (2003)
Cynthia Burham (2003)
Brian Cline (2003)
Ted Deden (2002)