Burson Lab: People

Kristen Burson is an experimental condensed matter physicist. Her research group focuses on studies of organic photovoltaics and the atomic structure of 2D glasses using surface science techniques. Burson earned her bachelor's degree from Gustavus Adolphus College and her Ph.D. in physics from the University of Maryland-College Park. She was awarded an Alexander von Humboldt postdoctoral fellowship and conducted her postdoctoral research at the Fritz-Haber Institute of the Max Plank Society in Berlin, Germany. Burson has also served on the American Physical Society committee for the status of women in physics (CSWP). When she is not doing physics, Kristen enjoys cat-sitting, going for walks, and playing board games.

Project: Organic Solar Cells

Project: Organic Solar Cells

Project: LEED IV of Silica

Project: Organic Solar Cells

Project: LEED IV of Silica

Project: Establishing Monomer vs. Aggregate Composition of Squaraine-Based Organic Photovoltaics Using Atomic Force Microscopy.

Thesis Title: IV LEED Analysis of Silica Structures on an Oxygen Covered Ru(0001) Substrate; Other Projects: Squaraine-based organic photovoltaics

Thesis Title: Designing a Digital Collaborative Problem Solving Space for Introductory Physics

Thesis Title: Examining the Impact of Blend Ratio and Annealing Time on the Densities of Thin Squaraine Films

Project: Development of a python-based silica structure analysis code

Thesis Title: Developing In-House Organic Solar Cell Production to Assess Cell Degradation

Project: Structure of Germania Thin Films; Burson Lab Papers: Co-authored “The Atomic Structure of a Metal-Supported Two-Dimensional Germania File,” Phys. Rev. B and “Determination of Silica and Germania Film Network Structure of Ru(0001) at the Atomic Scale,” J Phys. Chem. C

Thesis Title: An Analysis of Surface Homogeneity and Efficiency Degradation of Direct and Inverted Organic Solar Cells; Post Hamilton: MS, Electrical Engineering, University of Michigan

Thesis Title: Improving a Python-Based Program to Assess Amorphousness Near Holes in 2D Silica and Bubble Raft Models

Thesis Title: Investigating the Effect of Active Layer Thickness on the Power-Conversion Efficiency of Organic Solar Cells

Thesis Title: Assessment of a-Quartz Preparation Using Atomic Force Microscopy Clare plans to pursue vet school!

Thesis Title: Automated Analysis for Atomic Positions in 2D Silicates; Post Hamilton: MS, Mechanical Engineering, Columbia University