- Sewing an operating Organic Light Emitting Diode (OLED) into a cotton fabric
- Supercapacitor nanofiber electrodes made from lignin, an abundant wood bio-material
Research Experience
Research areas include:
- Flexible solar cells that can be integrated onto clothing and vehicles
- Large-area organic/inorganic materials for energy scavenging
- Flexible transistors to process information over large-area
- Sensors and readout systems for 'electronic skin'
Background
Focused on the development of low cost and flexible electronics, smart textiles, and renewable energy generation and storage systems.
Miscellany
Affiliated with the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department at UBC, and is a member of the Institute for Computing, Information and Cognitive Systems (ICICS), Microsystems and Nanotechnology (MiNa) Group, Advanced Materials and Process Engineering Laboratory (AMPEL), and Clean Energy Research Centre (CERC).