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Michael McGehee graduated from Princeton University with a degree in physics (1994) after researching mesostructure self assembly with Sol Gruner and Ilhan Aksay. He received a PhD (1999) from the University of California-Santa Barbara for his research with Alan Heeger on the use of semi conducting conjugated polymers as materials for lasers and light-emitting diodes. After graduating, he studied the co-assembly of block-copolymer/metal-oxide nanostructures in the research groups of Galen Stucky and Brad Chmelka. In the spring of 2000, he joined the faculty of Stanford University’s Materials Science and Engineering Department. McGehee won the MRS Graduate Student Gold Medal Award (1999), A Dupont Young Professor Award (2001), and an NSF CAREER Award (2001). He was a Gilbreth Lecturer at the National Academy of Engineering’s 2006 Annual Meeting. In 2007 McGhee won the MRS Outstanding Young Investigator Award.
At Stanford, McGehee has led a group of students who make ordered organic-inorganic bulk heterojunction solar cells, studying the electronic processes that occur in them. His group also studied the effects of molecular packing on charge transport in polymer field effect transistors, and developed methods for improving light extraction from polymer light-emitting diodes. He teaches classes on nanotechnology, polymer science, organic electronics, and solar cells. | 