page_title: David Ginger
section_title: Scanning probe microscopy
hierarchical_section_title: David Ginger / Research / Scanning probe microscopy
caption_attribution_description: English: Final installation and layout of Uni-Solar Ovonic’s thin Film Flexible Solar PV panels
context_page_description: David S. Ginger is an American physical chemist. He is the Alvin L. and Verla R. Kwiram endowed professor of chemistry at the University of Washington. He is also a Washington Research Foundation distinguished scholar, and Chief Scientist of the University of Washington Clean Energy Institute. In 2018 he was elected to the Washington State Academy of Sciences for his work on the microscopic investigation of materials for thin-film semiconductors.
context_section_description: Ginger has used scanning probe microscopy to examine the properties of nanoparticles. Research is conducted using a variety of different microscopy techniques, primarily Atomic Force Microscopy methods. He hopes to make analyses of condensed phase nano materials as common as analyses using optical microscopy techniques. The lab has used these microscopy techniques primarily for the study of voltaic and ionic transport materials such as those used in batteries. Microscopy is also useful for studying nanoscale properties of organic photovoltaic systems such as injection, transport, and trapping. Ginger's group at the University of Washington has unique imaging capabilities that are used to better understand the electronic geometry and charge mechanics of semiconducting materials to create theory based products.
caption: Example of a solar panel with thin film semiconductors.
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