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Kate Gerth received a B.A. in Chemistry from Northwestern University in
2004. Her major undergraduate research involved using nonlinear
spectroscopy to study environmentally relevant surface interactions under
the direction of Franz Geiger. Other research projects performed during
her undergraduate years include synthesizing novel organic-inorganic
polymers at the University of South Carolina, analyzing hydrothermal
formations at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, and doing some
physical oceanography through a program at Woods Hole Oceanographic
Institution. She began her graduate studies in Physical Chemistry at the
University of Colorado at Boulder in the fall of 2004 and performed
various lab rotations there before joining Arthur Nozik’s group in the
summer of 2005. She is currently working on fabricating and characterizing
third-generation photovoltaic devices incorporating both polymers and
quantum dots. Higher efficiencies can be realized using materials that
exhibit multiple exciton generation—a carrier multiplication process by
which one high-energy photon can create as many as three electrons. Other
projects include four-wave mixing experiments with which to study the
process of multiple-exciton generation.
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