About me
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A bit about me
Graduate student in Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering at Princeton University.
Thesis: Next generation silver nanowire network transparent conductors.
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Joshua A. Spechler
Get in touch:
spechler [at] princeton [dot] edu
My Doctoral Thesis
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The gist of it:
My thesis attempts to solve and study some of the issues with silver nanowire network transparent conductors, keeping them from widespread adoption in electronic devices.
Some Issues we have studied/solved:
*High resistance at nanowire-nanowire junctions can be mitigated with a laser process
*Poor adhesion and surface roughness can be mitigated by embedding the nanowires in the right polymer
*Poor thermal stability can be mitigated with the addition of a solution processed thin titania shell
Through addressing these issues we have made some impressive devices
*Hybrid organic-inorganic solar photovoltaic
*OLEDs (phosphorescent and fluorescent, green and white)
*Transparent Microphone from PvDF coated with AgNW
*Transparent heating elements
Employment
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2008-2010
Optical Engineer @ Jet Propulsion Labs
NASA/California Institute of Technology Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, CA. Member of section 383, optics. Wavefront sensing and control for the James Webb Space Telescope. Optical metrology integration and test.
Education
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2010-Now
Princeton University@Masters and Ph.D
Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering. General Examination topic: Applied Physics. Thesis Advisor: Prof. Craig B. Arnold.
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2004-2008
Brown University @Bachelors of Science
cum laude. Major: Engineering Physics.
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