Harald Ade

About

Professor Ade received his PhD in 1990 in Physics from SUNY at Stony Brook (now Stony Brook University) and joined the NCSU faculty in 1992. He has held appointments at NCSU ever since: Assistant Professor (1992-97), Associate Professor (1997-2001), and Full Professor (since 2001-2011), Distinguished Professor of Physics (2012-2017), and Goodnight Innovation Distinguished Professor (2017 – present).

Research interests

Prof. Ade developed a number of novel instruments and characterization methods, which include Near Edge X-ray Absorption Fine Structure (NEXAFS) microscopy, X-ray linear dichroism microscopy, X-ray photoemission microscopy, resonant x-ray reflectivity and resonant soft x-ray scattering (R-SoXS). Their applications focus primarily on determining the composition, morphology and structure of polymeric and organic electronic materials at the sub-micron spatial scale. R-SoXS has become a method de rigueur for the characterization of organic photovoltaic devices, as it affords high scattering contrast, sensitivity to molecular orientation, and a q-range that matches important lengths-scale of the device morphology. Instrumentation advanced in x-ray microscopy have lead to a commercial instrument by Accel (now Bruker). In general, his research interests span the following topics.

• Synchrotron-based soft X-ray characterization of polymer and carbon materials,
• Organic photovoltaic,
• Charge transport,
• Meso-scale morphology.

Select Publications

Complete List Of Publications

Visit ResearchGate to download many of the papers in pdf.

Honors & Awards

• 2016 NCSU Alumni Outstanding Research Award
• 2016 Election to NCSU Research Leadership Academy
• 2014 Sayers Lecture, Physics, NCSU
• 2013 Shirley Award for Outstanding Science at the Advanced Light Source
• 2013 Alumni Outstanding Research Award for 2011-2012
• 2011 Fellow, American Association for the Advancement of Science
• 2010 Fellow, American Physical Society
• 2002 Halbach Award for Innovative Instrumentation, Advanced Light Source, Berkeley
• 2000 K. F. J. Heinrich Award, Microbeam Analysis Society
• 1995 Proctor & Gamble Presidential Faculty Fellow Support Program
• 1995 Sigma Xi Research Award, North Carolina State University Chapter
• 1994 NSF Young Investigator Award
• 1994 DuPont Young Professor Grant
• 1994 Finalist, Proctor & Gamble University Exploratory Research Program
• 1991 R&D 100 Award