Brendan O'Connor
Professor
- Phone: (919) 515-5282
- Email: btoconno@ncsu.edu
- Office: Engineering Building III (EB3) 3312
- Website: http://www.mae.ncsu.edu/oconnor
Dr. O’Connor is interested in fabrication, characterization, and modeling of organic electronic devices. Organic semiconductors have enormous potential to transform how we interact with electronics, with wide-ranging application opportunities including low-cost solar power, biocompatible electronics, and ubiquitous integration of electronics into our surroundings (the internet of things). Current research interests in Dr. O’Connor’s group include the development of robust flexible and stretchable devices, producing devices with unique capabilities, and establishing scalable processing methods. Devices of interest include solar cells, photodetectors, transistors, and thermoelectrics.
Dr. O’Connor teaches MAE 589 Direct Energy Conversion, MAE 421 Solar Energy, MAE 412 Design of Thermal Systems, MAE 310 Heat Transfer Fundamentals, and MAE 301 Thermodynamics 1.
Publications
- Exceptional Alignment in a Donor-Acceptor Conjugated Polymer via a Previously Unobserved Liquid Crystal Mesophase
- Schrickx, H. M., Kashani, S., Buck, L., Ding, K., Rech, J. J., Flagg, L. Q., … Brendan T. O'Connor. (2024, April 8), ADVANCED FUNCTIONAL MATERIALS, Vol. 4. https://doi.org/10.1002/adfm.202315183
- Flexible Self-Powered Organic Photodetector with High Detectivity for Continuous On-Plant Sensing
- Schrickx, H. M., Gyurek, S., Moore, C., Hernandez-Pagan, E., Doherty, C. J., Kudenov, M. W., & Brendan T. O'Connor. (2024, February 8), ADVANCED OPTICAL MATERIALS, Vol. 2. https://doi.org/10.1002/adom.202400005
- All Electrohydrodynamic Printed Flexible Organic Thin Film Transistors
- Ren, P., Song, R., Zhu, Y., O'Connor, B., & Dong, J. (2023, June 21), ADVANCED MATERIALS TECHNOLOGIES, Vol. 6. https://doi.org/10.1002/admt.202300410
- Emergent molecular traits of lettuce and tomato grown under wavelength-selective solar cells
- Charles, M., Edwards, B., Ravishankar, E., Calero, J., Henry, R., Rech, J., … Sederoff, H. (2023), FRONTIERS IN PLANT SCIENCE, 14. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpls.2023.1087707
- Molecular interactions that drive morphological and mechanical stabilities in organic solar cells
- Siddika, S., Peng, Z., Balar, N., Dong, X., Zhong, X., You, W., … OConnor, B. T. (2023), JOULE, 7(7), 1593–1608. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.joule.2023.06.002
- Rubber-Toughened Organic Solar Cells: Miscibility-Morphology-Performance Relations
- Al Shafe, A., Schrickx, H. M., Ding, K., Ade, H., & Brendan T. O'Connor. (2023, August 8), ACS ENERGY LETTERS, Vol. 8. https://doi.org/10.1021/acsenergylett.3c01124
- Strategic Incorporation of Cleavable Side Chains Improves Thermal Stability of PffBT-T4-Based Polymer Solar Cells
- Shanahan, J., Oh, J., Son, S. Y., Siddika, S., Pendleton, D., Brendan T. O'Connor, & You, W. (2023), CHEMISTRY OF MATERIALS, 35(23), 10139–10149. https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.chemmater.3c02181
- Stretchable Organic Transistor Based Pressure Sensor Employing a Porous Elastomer Gate Dielectric
- Song, R., Ren, P., Liu, Y., Zhu, Y., Dong, J., & Brendan T. O'Connor. (2023, April 28), ADVANCED MATERIALS TECHNOLOGIES, Vol. 4. https://doi.org/10.1002/admt.202202140
- Cephalopod-inspired snapshot multispectral sensor based on geometric phase lens and stacked organic photodetectors
- Altaqui, A., Schrickx, H., Gyurek, S., Sen, P., Escuti, M., Brendan T. O'Connor, & Kudenov, M. (2022), OPTICAL ENGINEERING, 61(7). https://doi.org/10.1117/1.OE.61.7.077104
- Curvilinear soft electronics by micromolding of metal nanowires in capillaries
- Liu, Y., Zheng, M., O'Connor, B., Dong, J., & Zhu, Y. (2022), SCIENCE ADVANCES, 8(46). https://doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.add6996
