The research areas in the lab include synthesis of functional organic and polymer materials, organic electronic device design and fabrication, and applications development for organic electronics. Our approach is multidisciplinary, involving concepts and expertise from chemistry, materials science and engineering, physics, and electrical engineering. The devices of current interest are organic photovoltaic cells, organic thin film transistors, etc. These devices are used as characterization tools for fundamental charge transport and photo-physics studies. They are also interested in deployment of advanced characterization tools, such as synchrotron based soft x-ray scattering and neutron scattering. Their applications focus primarily on determining the composition, morphology and structure of polymeric and electronic materials at the sub-micron spatial scale.