The University of British Columbia

About

is a research laboratory focusing on the development of low cost and mechanically flexible photovoltaic (PV) devices and large area microelectronic systems. Flexible PV and electronic devices have the potential for roll-to-roll manufacturing that cut their costs significantly in near future. These devices go beyond today’s use of electronics in computers and mobile phones and to daily objects and materials such as clothes, car/building components, and health-monitoring systems. Similar to natural organisms, future electronic devices need to generate their own energy, sense their environment, and perform a designed function. At FEEL, we use novel electronic materials such as semioconductor nanowires and nanotubes for making low cost and flexible electronics.

Examples of our interests are: flexible solar cells that can be integrated onto clothes and vehicles, large-area organic/inorganic materials for energy scavenging, flexible transistors to process information and used for collecting data from health sensors.