Qiquan Qiao, Ph.D., Assistant Professor

Email: Qiquan.Qiao@sdstate.edu

Tel: 605-688-6965

Qiquan Qiao obtained an M.S. in Optics from the Shanghai Institute of Optics and Fine Mechanics at Chinese Academy of Sciences, and a Ph.D. in Organic Electronics from the Virginia Commonwealth University.  He spent two years as an Optics Engineer with Shanghai Institute of Optics and Fine Mechanics in Shanghai, China. While at the Virginia Commonwealth University, he received the ASME Solar Energy Division Graduate Student Research Award and the China Government Award to Outstanding Students Aboard.He joined the faculty at South Dakota State University in 2007 where he established the Organic Electronic Laboratory – a teaching and research lab devoted to studying various organic electronic materials and devices. Current research is in organic photovoltaics, organic light emitting diodes and organic transistors. 

Diane M. Hinkens, Ph.D. , Postdoc Research Associate

Email: Diane.Hinkens@sdstate.edu

Tel: 951-533-9657

Diane Hinkens obtained a Ph.D. in Organic Chemistry in 2006 from the University of California, Riverside under the direction of M. Mark Midland, where she worked on developing reactions of vinylorganoboranes. She also obtained an M.S. in Analytical Chemistry from Indiana University in 1999. Since graduating, she has worked as a postdoctoral research assistant for Dr. Brian Logue at South Dakota State University. She is currently an NSF Postdoctoral Fellow in Dr. Qiquan Qiao’s Lab where they have a collaboration with Seth Darling of the Center for Nanoscale Materials at Argonne National Laboratory to develop novel organic photovoltaics.
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Jing Li, Ph.D. , Postdoc Research Associate

Email: jingli@iccas.ac.cn

Tel: 605-688-6350

Jing Li obtained his Bachelor from Beijing Institute of Technology in Polymer Physics & Chemistry and his Ph.D. from the Institute of Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Science, where he worked on synthesizing and characterizing semiconducting conjugated polymers. Since graduating in 2006, he has worked as research associate at Hong Kong Polytechnic University. In Oct 16, he joined Dr. Qiao's group and currently he is working on the development of variable bandgap polymers for full spectrum light harvesting.

Prakash Joshi, Ph.D. candidate

Email: Prakash.Joshi@sdstate.edu

Tel: 605-651-1385

Prakash Joshi, a native of Nepal, obtained  an MS in physics from University of Minnesota, USA in 2007 and subsequently joined Dr. Qiao's group at South Dakota State University, USA as a doctoral student in the same year. His research interests include dye sensitized solar cell device fabrication and characterization, new NIR dye/quantum dots, and low cost counter electrode materials. His previous work include estimation of solar radiation over Nepal, and  characterization of quartz tuning fork for atomic force microscopy.

Yu Xie, Ph.D. candidate

Email: yxie@jacks.sdstate.edu

Tel: 605-688-6976

Yu Xie, a native of China, graduated from University of Science & Technology of China in organic chemistry.  In 2007, he joined the Professor Qiao's group at Department of Electrical Engineering & Computer Science, the South Dakota State University.  His research interests are focusing on fabricating photovoltaic devices based on DSSCs and polymer solar cells.

Mahbube K. Siddiki, Ph.D. candidate

Email: Mahbube.Siddiki@sdstate.edu

Tel: 605-688-6976

Awardee of the most prestigious scholarship in Europe the “Erasmus Mundus Fellowship”, Mahbube K. Siddiki was born and raised in a peaceful city of Bangladesh. He completed his Masters on Materials for Energy Storage and Conversion (MESC) and Energy Technology (ET) offered by a consortium of five leading research universities in Europe.  As a part of his study he has attended five leading research laboratories (Center of Excellent on Materials and Energy research) in Europe and in Asia.  He has joined Dr. Qiquan’s group in Fall 2008. His research interests include fabrication and characterization of Organic Semiconductor based photonic devices and investigation of their interfacial interaction by using Time Dependent Density functional Theory (TDDFT). His previous research works include synthesis and characterization of nano-structured oxide semiconductors, fabrication and characterization of hybrid solar cells, designing and fabrication of renewable energy systems.