Dr. Kurt Pernstich

Work at ZHAW

Position

Senior Lecturer and Head Optoelectronic Materials and Devices Team

Focus

• Organic Electronics
• Organic Light-Emitting Diodes (OLEDs)

Teaching

Senior Lecturer

Experience

• PostDoc
  NIST Gaithersburg, Physical Measurement Laboratory, Nanoelectronics Group
  2009 - 2012
• PostDoc
  ETH Materials Department, Polymer Technology
  2007 - 2009

Education and Continuing education

Education

• Dr. / Physics
  ETH Zurich
  2002 - 2007
• MSc / Electrical Engineering
  Graz University of Technology
  1995 - 2002

Projects

• Advanced Materials and Characterization Tools for Quantum-Dot enhanced Displays / Project leader / Project ongoing
• Investigating charge transport in organic semiconductors with electrochemical methods and modelling / Project leader / Project ongoing
• LED-basierte Wasseraufbereitung / Project leader / Project completed
• In-Mold Electronics-Project for OLED-Integration in plastics / Project leader / Project completed

Publications

• Kissling, Gabriela P.; Ruhstaller, Beat; Pernstich, Kurt P.,

  2023.

  Measuring frontier orbital energy levels of OLED materials using cyclic voltammetry in solution.

  Organic Electronics.

  122(106888).

  Available from: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.orgel.2023.106888

• Regnat, Markus; Moon, Chang-Ki; Jenatsch, Sandra; Ruhstaller, Beat; Pernstich, Kurt P.,

  2022.

  Pinpointing the origin of the increased driving voltage during prolonged operation in a phosphorescent OLED based on an exciplex host.

  Organic Electronics.

  108(106570).

  Available from: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.orgel.2022.106570

• Regnat, Markus; Pernstich, Kurt P.; Kim, Kwon‐Hyeon; Kim, Jang‐Joo; Nüesch, Frank; Ruhstaller, Beat,

  2019.

  Routes for efficiency enhancement in fluorescent TADF exciplex host OLEDs gained from an electro‐optical device model.

  Advanced Electronic Materials.

  6(2), pp. 1900804.

  Available from: https://doi.org/10.1002/aelm.201900804

• Regnat, Markus; Pernstich, Kurt; Ruhstaller, Beat,

  2019.

  Influence of the bias-dependent emission zone on exciton quenching and OLED efficiency.

  Organic Electronics.

  70, pp. 219-226.

  Available from: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.orgel.2019.04.027

• Regnat, Markus; Pernstich, Kurt P.; Züfle, Simon; Ruhstaller, Beat,

  2018.

  Analysis of the bias-dependent split emission zone in phosphorescent OLEDs.

  ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces.

  10(37), pp. 31552-31559.

  Available from: https://doi.org/10.1021/acsami.8b09595

• Elliott, Lindsay C. C.; Basham, James I.; Pernstich, Kurt; Shrestha, Pragya R.; Richter, Lee J.; DeLongchamp, Dean M.; Gundlach, David J.,

  2014.

  Probing charge recombination dynamics in organic photovoltaic devices under open-circuit conditions.

  Advanced Energy Materials.

  4(15).

  Available from: https://doi.org/10.1002/aenm.201400356

• Li, Wei; Liang, Yiran; Yu, Dangmin; Peng, Lianmao; Pernstich, Kurt; Shen, Tian; Hight Walker, A. R.; Cheng, Guangjun; Hacker, Christina A.; Richter, Curt A.; Li, Qiliang; Gundlach, David J.; Liang, Xuelei,

  2012.

  Ultraviolet/ozone treatment to reduce metal-graphene contact resistance.

  Applied Physics Letters.

  102(18).

  Available from: https://doi.org/10.1063/1.4804643

• Regnat, M.; Pernstich, K. P.; Jenatsch, S.; Ruhstaller, B.,

  2021.

  Detailed explanation of the increased driving voltage in a TADF exciplex host OLED during prolonged operation via a quantitative device model [poster].

  In:

  13th Asian Conference on Organic Electronics (A-COE 2021), Online, 2-4 September 2021.

• Pernstich, Kurt; Messenzehl-Kölbl, Lisa,

  2023.

  Wie integrieren wir KI in die berufliche und akademische Schreibpraxis?.

  In:

  LeLa Webinar-Reihe «AI or what the ChatGPT?» Implikationen für die Gestaltung der Lehre an Hochschulen, online, 6. Juni 2023.

  Available from: https://www.lela.ch/detail/agenda/kiwebinar

• Regnat, M.; Jenatsch, S.; Züfle, S.; Pernstich, K. P.; Ruhstaller, B.,

  2021.

  Advanced characterization and device simulation towards better understanding of OLED degradation mechanisms.

  In:

  21st International Meeting on Information Display (IMID 2021), Seoul, Korea, 25-27 August 2021.

• Pernstich, Kurt,

  2020.

  Eine App zur Gamification der Übungen in MINT-Fächern.

  In:

  Bürgenstock-Konferenz der Schweizer Fachhochschulen und Pädagogischen Hochschulen, Luzern, Schweiz, 10. - 11. Januar 2020.

  Available from: https://www.buergenstock-konferenz.ch/images/pdf/13_ZFH_ZHAW_Pernstich_Gamification.pdf

• Pernstich, Kurt,

  2019.

  Gamification der Physikübungen mit tguishiny/e-Exercise.

  In:

  Digital Learning Day, ZHAW-IDP Retreat, Winterthur, Schweiz, Juni 2019.

• Pernstich, Kurt,

  2019.

  Game-based Learning für MINT-Fächer mit e-Exercises.

  In:

  E-Learning Café, ZHAW Wädenswil, Schweiz, Mai 2019.

Publications before appointment at the ZHAW

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