I am interested in Science Writing, Physics Education, and Condensed Matter. If you're interested in how I got here, look at my Who am I? page.

I completed my PhD in December 2005 after 4 years as a graduate student in Physics at the University of CA at Santa Cruz.  I worked with Dr. Sue Carter on polymer photovoltaics (solar cells).  My dissertation was on time-resolved photoluminescence studies of heterojunctions of electron- and hole-transporting materials for photovoltaics. My goal was to understand how certain canonical electron-transporters affect the excited state dynamics in a popular hole-transporting PPV polymer.

You want proof?

You can download my dissertation here: .

Or, for those who are short of attention span, here is my abstract.

You can download my publications by visiting my professional site, at http://www.exo.net/~drsteph.

 

You want to know more?

I talk more about the promise of organic photovoltaics, and how they work, on my professional site:

• Photovoltaic education and outreach activities
• More about my dissertation research