Prof. Gitti Frey

Gitti received her Ph.D. from the Department of Materials and Interfaces at the Weizmann Institute in 1999. She spent the following three years as a Marie Curie Postdoc Fellow in the Optoelectronics Group of the Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics, Cambridge, UK. Since September 2002 she is in the Department of Materials Science & Engineering at the Technion, leading the Hybrid Materials and Devices Research Group. In 2009/2010 she spent a sabbatical year as Visiting Professor in the Department of Physics, Colorado School of Mines, Golden CO, and as Visiting Scientist in The National Renewable Energy Lab (NREL), Golden CO, USA. In 2017, she was a Visiting Professor in the Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry and the Center for Organic Photonics and Electronics (COPE) in Georgia Tech, Atlanta GA.

• PhD, Weizmann Institute, Department of Materials and Interfaces
• MSc, Hebrew University, Chemistry
• BSc, Hebrew University, Chemistry

• Visiting Professor, Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Center for Organic Photonics and Electronics (COPE), Georgia Tech, Atlanta GA (7/2017 – 2/2018)
• Professor, Department of Materials Science & Engineering, Technion – Israel Institute of Technology (2016 – )
• Associate Prof., Department of Materials Science & Engineering, Technion – Israel Institute of Technology (2009 – 2016)
• Visiting Professor, Department of Physics, Colorado School of Mines, Golden CO, USA, and Visiting Scientist, NREL National Renewable Energy Lab, Golden CO, USA. (9/2009 – 8/2010)
• Senior Lecturer, Department of Materials Science & Engineering, Technion – Israel Institute of Technology (2002 – 2009)
• Postdoctoral research associate, Department of Physics, University of Cambridge, UK (1999-2002)

• The Morton and Beverley Rechler Excellence in Research Award (2020)
• MRSC of the Royal Society of Chemistry (2015)
• Kavli Fellow, Kavli Foundation USA academy of Sciences (2013)
• Yanai Award for Excellence in Academic Education (2012)
• Colorado School of Mines Teaching excellence (2009)
• The Henri Gutwirth Award for the Promotion of Research, Technion (2008)
• Salomon Simon Mani Excellence in Teaching Award, Technion (2006)
• Milton & Lillian Edward for Academic Lectureships U.S.A. (2005)
• Alon Fellowship (2003)
• Landau “Leaders in Science and Technology” Fellowship, Technion (2002)
• Marie Curie Individual Postdoctoral Fellowship (1999)

• Organic Electronics – Graduate course
• Introduction to materials engineering for civil engineers – Undergraduate course
• Science and technology of polymers – Undergraduate course
• Optical processes in materials – Undergraduate course
• Advanced Laboratory in Materials Engineering I Undergraduate Laboratory – Technion
• Advanced Laboratory in Materials Engineering II – Undergraduate Laboratory

Tuning Intra and Intermolecular Interactions for Balanced Hole and Electron Transport in Semiconducting Polymers
Tanmoy Sarkar, Sebastian Alexander Schneider, Guy Ankonina, Arthur D. Hendsbee, Yuning Li, Michael F. Toney, and Gitti L. Frey
Chemistry of Materials 32, 17, 7338-7346 , 2020

Towards fast screening of organic solar cell blends
Artem Levitsky, Giovanni Maria Matrone, Aditi Khirbat, Ilaria Bargigia, Xiaolei Chu, Oded Nahor, Tamar Segal-Perez, Adam J. Moulé, Lee J. Richter, Carlos Silva, Natalie Stingelin and Gitti L. Frey
Advanced Science  7, 2000960, 2020

Tuning Contact Resistance in Top‐Contact p‐Type and n‐Type Organic Field Effect Transistors by Self‐Generated Interlayers 
Tanmoy Sarkar, Basel Shamieh, Roy Verbeek, Auke Jisk Kronemeijer, Gerwin H. Gelinck and Gitti L. Frey
Advanced Functional Materials, 30, 1805617, 2020

Fully Solution‐Processed Photonic Structures from Inorganic/Organic Molecular Hybrid Materials and Commodity Polymers 
Stefan Bachevillier, Hua‐Kang Yuan, Andrew Strang, Artem Levitsky, Gitti L. Frey, Andreas Hafner, Donal D. C. Bradley, Paul N. Stavrinou and Natalie Stingelin
Advanced Functional Materials, 1808152, 2019

Augmenting n-type Performance of ambipolar Top-Contact Organic Thin-film Transistors by Self-generated Interlayers 
Tanmoy Sarkar, Jane Vinokur, Basel Shamieh, Victoria Savikhin, Michael F. Toney and Gitti L. Frey
Chemistry of Materials  31, 17, 7046-7053 2019

Little probe, big data
Gitti L. Frey and Yaron Kauffmann
Nature Materials News & Views, 18, 776–777 2019

Interlayers Self-Generated by Additive-Metal Interactions in Organic Electronic Devices
Jane Vinokur, Igal Deckman, Tanmoy Sarkar, Liza Nuzman, Basel Shamieh, and Gitti L Frey
Advanced Materials 30 (41), 1706803 2018

Dynamics of Additive Migration to Form Cathodic Interlayers in Organic Solar Cells
Jane Vinokur, Stas Obuchovsky, Igal Deckman, Lishai Shoham, Tom Mates, Michael L. Chabinyc, Gitti L. Frey
Applied Materials & Interfaces 9 (35), 29889–29900 2017

The mechanism of metal oxide deposition from ALD inside non-reactive polymer matrices: Effects of polymer crystallinity and temperature
Stas Obuchovsky, Hadar Frankenstein, Jane Vinokur, Anna K. Hailey, Yueh-Lin Loo and Gitti L. Frey
Chemistry of Materials 28 (8), 2668–2676 2016

Mechanisms for Spontaneous Generation of Interlayers in Organic Solar Cells
Jane Vinokur , Basel Shamieh , Igal Deckman , Avni Singhal , and Gitti L Frey
Chemistry of Materials 28 (24), 8851–8870 2016

Organic electronics, conjugated polymers, organic semiconductors, processing organic devices: OLEDs, OSCs and OFETs, structure characterization of functional organic films, structure-property relations in organic devices, charge injection and collection in organic devices, metal/organic interfaces, metal oxide/organic interfaces, synthesis and assembly of hybrid organic/inorganic materials, electronic and optical processes across organic/inorganic interfaces