Education

Ph.D. Chemistry and Nanotechnology
University of Washington, Seattle, WA
Specializing in Materials and Physical Chemistry
2012

B.S. Electrical Engineering
University of Alaska Fairbanks, Fairbanks, AK
2005

Professional Experience

Characterization Scientist
AquaHydrex, Inc, Louisville, CO
March 2018 to 2020

Lead Scientist
International ThermoDyne, Golden, CO
January 2016 to November 2016

Research Scientist
International ThermoDyne, Golden, CO
April 2015 to December 2015

Postdoctoral Researcher
National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL), Golden, CO
March 2012 to March 2015

Research Assistant
University of Washington, Seattle, WA
July 2006 to March 2012

Engineering Intern
NANA/Colt Engineering, LLC, Anchorage, AK

Failure Analysis Engineer Co-op
IBM, Rochester, MN

Engineering Specialist
Siemens Building Technologies, Inc. Fairbanks, AK

Intern
Department of Transportation, State of Alaska, Anchorage, AK

Electrical Safety Inspections Intern
VECO Alaska, Anchorage and Prudhoe Bay, AK

Professional and Public Leadership

  • Remotely lead small team of research professionals (1 full-time lab technician and 2 part time staff scientists) at NREL to work on cooperative research and development agreement (CRADA) with International ThermoDyne, 2016
  • Mentored master’s student Jonas Boé general laboratory skills and organic photovoltaic device fabrication and characterization, NREL, 2014
  • Pacific Science Center Science Communication Fellow: developed and administered interactive demonstration for nontraditional science education, Seattle, WA, 2011 to 2012
  • Co-Director, web administrator, blogger, and book club organizer of The Forum on Science Ethics and Policy (FOSEP, https://seattlefosep.wordpress.com/), Seattle, WA, 2010 to 2012
  • Demonstrated biodiesel synthesis for local Seattle high school students, 2010
  • Developed online educational material for plastic electronics, including video demonstration, 2010
  • Presented poster and demonstrations at Shoreline SolarFest, Shoreline, WA, 2009
  • Presented poster “How do plastic solar cells work?” to the Seattle community leaders at Seattle Chamber Leadership Conference, 2009
  • Mentored honors undergraduate chemistry student Noah E. Horwitz, University of Washington, 2008 to 2011
  • Teaching Assistant for general chemistry, University of Washington, 2006 to 2007
  • Led the chapter of American Indian Science and Engineering Society (AISES) as Co-President, University of Alaska Fairbanks, 2004 to 2005
  • Led recitations and study sessions for the Alaska Native Science and Engineering Program (ANSEP), University of Alaska Anchorage, 2003

Skills

atomic force microscopy

computer-aided design

  • AutoCAD: design review
  • Autodesk Fusion: 3D print models
  • Solidworks: device testing chamber design
  • Sketchup: furniture design, woodworking, and landscaping

computer programming

  • data science
  • Igor Pro: modeling of optical field intensity in complex semiconductor devices (tandem photovoltaics) for optimization of layer thicknesses and current generation, programming for the control of the Asylum MFP3D atomic force microscope to perform custom experiments, routine use for data analysis and plotting for most experimental data
  • LabVIEW
  • Linux
  • Maple
  • Mathematica
  • MATLAB
  • scripting

cryostats and temperature control

electrochemistry

home lab

  • Containerization
  • Home Assistant
  • Linux
  • Networking
  • Proxmox VE
  • Self-hosted LLMs (Ollama)
  • Web hosting

instrumentation development

machining & fabrications

solar simulator

solution-processing

spectroscopy

thin film device fabrication & characterization

vacuum science

Peer-reviewed journal articles

Publications

Please see my Google Scholar profile for current citations.

Bradley A. MacLeod, Noah J. Stanton, Isaac E. Gould, Devin Wesenberg, Rachelle Ihly, Zbyslaw R. Owczarczyk, Katherine E. Hurst, Christopher S. Fewox, Christopher N. Folmar, Katherine Holman Hughes, Barry L. Zink, Jeffrey L. Blackburn, Andrew J. Ferguson. Large n– and p-type thermoelectric power factors from doped semiconducting single-walled carbon nanotube thin films. Energy Environ. Sci. 10 (2017), 2168-2179. DOI: 10.1039/C7EE01130J

Ryan W. Crisp, Gregory F. Pach, J. Matthew Kurley, Ryan M. France, Matthew O. Reese, Sanjini U. Nanayakkara, Bradley A. MacLeod, Dmitri V. Talapin, Matthew C. Beard, Joseph M. Luther. Tandem solar cells from solution-processed CdTe and PbS quantum dots using a ZnTe/ZnO tunnel junction. Nano Letters 17 (2017), 2, 1020–1027. DOI: 10.1021/acs.nanolett.6b04423

Bradley A. MacLeod, K. Xerxes Steirer, James L. Young, Unsal Koldemir, Alan Sellinger, John A. Turner, Todd G. Deutsch, Dana C. Olson. Phosphonic acid modification of GaInP2 photocathodes towards unbiased photoelectrochemical water splitting. ACS Appl. Mater. Interfaces 7 (2015), 21, 11346–11350. DOI: 10.1021/acsami.5b01814

Philip Schulz, Luisa L. Whittaker-Brooks,, Bradley A. MacLeod, Dana C. Olson, Yueh-Lin Loo, Antoine Kahn. Electronic alignment in Inverted organometallic perovskite solar cells. Accepted for publication in Adv. Mater. Interfaces 7 (2015), 21, 1400532. DOI: 10.1002/admi.201400532

Bradley A. MacLeod, Bertrand J. Tremolet de Villers, Philip Schulz, Paul F. Ndione, Hyungchul Kim, Anthony J. Giordano, Kai Zhu, Seth R. Marder, Samuel Graham, Joseph J. Berry, Antoine Kahn, Dana C. Olson. Stability of inverted organic solar cells with ZnO contact layers deposited from precursor solutions. Energy Environ. Sci. 8 (2015), 529-601. DOI: 10.1039/C4EE02488E

Bradley A. MacLeod, Philip Schulz, Sarah R. Cowan, Andres Garcia, David S. Ginley, Antoine Kahn, Dana S. Olson. Improved performance in bulk heterojunction organic solar cells with sol-gel MgZnO electro-collection layer. Adv. Energy Mater. 4 (2014), 13, 1400073. DOI: 10.1002/aenm.201400073

Sarah R. Cowan, Philip Schulz, Anthony J. Giordano, Andres Garcia, Bradley A. MacLeod, Seth Marder, Antoine Kahn, David S. Ginley, Erin L. Ratcliff, Dana C. Olson. Chemically controlled reversible and irreversible extraction barriers via stable interface modification of zinc oxide electron collection layer in polycarbazole-based organic solar cells. Adv. Func. Mater. 24 (2014), 4671–4680. DOI: 10.1002/adfm.201400158

Erin L. Ratcliff, Ronald C. Bakus II, Greg C. Welch, Tom van der Poll, Andres Garcia, Sarah R. Cowan, Bradley A. MacLeod, Guillermo C. Bazan, Dana C. Olson. Formation of interfacial traps upon surface protonation in small molecule solution processed bulk heterojunctions probed by photoelectron spectroscopy. J. Mater. Chem. C 1 (2013), 39, 6223–6234. DOI: 10.1039/c3tc31064g

Anuradha Bulusu, Sergio A. Paniagua, Bradley A. MacLeod, Ajaya K. Sigdel, Joseph J. Berry, Dana C. Olson, Seth R. Marder, Samuel Graham Jr. Efficient modification of metal oxide surfaces with phosphonic acids, by spray coating. Langmuir 29 (2013), 3935–3942. DOI: 10.1021/la303354t

Michael Salvador, Bradley A. MacLeod, Angela Hess, Abhishek P. Kulkarni, Keiko Munechika, Jennifer I. L. Chen, and David S. Ginger. Electron Accumulation on Metal Nanoparticles in Plasmon-Enhanced Organic Solar Cells. ACS Nano 6 (2012), 10024-10032. DOI: 10.1021/nn303725v

Bradley A. MacLeod, Noah E. Horwitz, Erin L. Ratcliff, Judith L. Jenkins, Neal R. Armstrong, Anthony J. Giordano, Peter J. Hotchkiss, Seth R. Marder, Charles T. Campbell, and David S. Ginger. Built-In Potential in Conjugated Polymer Diodes with Changing Anode Work Function: Interfacial States and Deviation from the Schottky–Mott Limit. J. Phys. Chem. Lett. 3 (2012), 9, 1202–1207. DOI: 10.1021/jz300283h

Kristina M. Knesting, Peter J. Hotchkiss, Bradley A. MacLeod, Seth R. Marder, David S. Ginger. Spatially Modulating Interfacial Properties of Transparent Conductive Oxides: Patterning Work Function with Phosphonic Acid Self-Assembled Monolayers, Adv. Mater. 24 (2011), 5, 642–646. DOI: 10.1002/adma.201102321

Andreas F. Tillack, Kevin M. Noone, Bradley A. MacLeod, Dennis Nordlund, Kenneth P. Nagle, Joseph A. Bradley, Steven K. Hau, Alex K.-Y. Jen, Gerald T. Seidler, David S. Ginger. Surface characterization of polythiophene:fullerene blends on different electrodes using near edge X-ray absorption fine structure, ACS Appl. Mater. Interfaces 3 (2011), 726–732. DOI: 10.1021/am101055r

Liam S. C. Pingree, Bradley A. MacLeod, David S. Ginger, The changing face of PEDOT : PSS films: Substrate, bias, and processing effects on vertical charge transport, J. Phys. Chem. C 112 (2008), 21, 7922–7927. DOI: 10.1021/jp711838h

Presentations

Talks 

  • “Stability of Inverted Organic Solar Cells with Sol-Gel-Deposited ZnO Electron Contact Layers” Materials Research Society Fall 2014 Meeting, Symposia U/P, December 2014
  • “Enhanced stability of ZnO-based inverted organic photovoltaic devices by phosphonic acid modification” American Physical Society March 2014 Meeting, Session D25, Denver, CO
  • “Electroabsorption spectroscopy: Finding your built-in potential” Center for Interface Science: Solar Electric Materials, a U.S. DOE EFRC, Tucson, AZ, October 2010
  • “Measuring electric fields in organic photovoltaics” The Center on Materials and Devices for Information Technology Research, a National Science Foundation Science and Technology Center, University of Washington, October 2009

Posters

  • “Stability of inverted organic solar cells with ZnO contact layers deposited from sol-gel precursors” Excitonic Photovoltaics 2014, Telluride, CO, August 2014
  • “Improved Performance in Bulk Heterojunction Organic Solar Cells with Sol-Gel MgZnO Electron-Collecting Layer” Materials Research Society Fall 2013 Meeting, Symposium Y, December 2013
  • “Improved Performance from Solution-processed Small Molecule Solar Cells by Hole-collection Optimization” Materials Research Society Spring 2013 Meeting, Symposium B, April 2013
  • “Probing nanometer-scale energetics and orientation of molecules at interfaces” U.S. Department of Energy: Energy Frontiers Research Center Summit, Washington D.C., May 2011
  • “Electroabsorption spectroscopy for screening electrode functionalization in organic solar cells” Materials Research Society Fall 2009 Meeting, Symposium D, December 2009
  • “Electrode functionalization in organic solar cells” National Science Foundation: The Center on Materials and Devices for Information Technology Research, University of Arizona, February 2009
  • “Space charge limited photocurrents and mobility measurement in bulk heterojunction solar cells” Gordon Research Conference: Electronic Processes in Organic Materials, July 2008