People:

Current Members

Marc Baldo

Marc Baldo is the Dugald C. Jackson Professor of Electrical Engineering and the Director for the Research Laboratory of Electronics (RLE).  Marc received his B.Eng. from the University of Sydney in 1995 with first class honors and university medal, and his Ph.D. from Princeton University in 2001.   He pioneered phosphorescent OLEDs – now standard for high efficiency solid state lighting.  He has been at MIT since 2002.

Catherine Bourgeois

Cathy Bourgeois is the Program Manager for the Research Laboratory of Electronics (RLE).  Her key role is to support Professor Baldo in his role as director of the RLE and his research team.  Additionally, she manages the RLE’s Leading Excellence in Administration Program (LEAP) training program for RLE administrative assistants.   She also onboards new admin hires as well as junior faculty to help set-up best administrative practices early in their careers.

Kangmin Lee

Kangmin Lee is a Postdoctoral Scholar in the Research Laboratory of Electronics, Spin and Excitonic Engineering Group. He received a B.S. degree in Interdisciplinary School of Green Energy from Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology (UNIST), Rep. of Korea in 2014. He received a Ph.D. in the School of Energy and Chemical Engineering from UNIST in 2021. He was a post-doctoral researcher in the School of Energy and Chemical Engineering at the UNIST. He joined the Spin and Excitonics Engineering Group in 2023. His main research interests are transparent crystalline silicon (c-Si) photovoltaics, c-Si solar cells, and c-Si nano/micro-structure-based devices. Currently, he is working on transparent c-Si solar cells and c-Si solar cells combined with exciton fission materials and upconversion materials.

Jaekang Song

Jaekang Song is a graduate student at MIT in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science. He received his B.S. in Electrical and Electronic Engineering from Yonsei University, Seoul South Korea in 2020. He has worked on the fabrication and characterization of microelectronics. Currently, Jaekang’s research interests are on developing organic devices and computing devices.

Dooyong Koh

Dooyong Koh is a graduate student in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at MIT. He received his B.S. in Materials Science and Engineering/Electrical and Computer Engineering from Seoul National University in 2022. He joined Spin and Excitonics Engineering Group in Fall 2022. His current research interest lies on ferroic devices for probabilistic machine learning and energy-based models, ferroelectric negative capacitance for energy-efficient logic, and optoelectronics. 

Aaron Li

Aaron Li is a graduate student in the Department of Chemistry at MIT. He received his B.A. in Chemistry from Cornell University in 2022. His previous work focused on the characterization of singlet fission microcavity devices for triplet sensitization. He joined the Spin & Excitonic Engineering Group and the Bawendi Group in the fall of 2022. Currently, Aaron is interested in investigating charge transfer in perovskite photovoltaic devices.

Oliver Nix

Oliver Nix is a graduate student in the Department of Chemistry at MIT. He received his B.A. in Chemistry/Physics in 2022 from Bowdoin College. His previous research includes an investigating the role of the solid-electrolyte interphase layer in lithium metal batteries on battery performance, and probing the excited state dynamics of organic photoacids and photoswitches in solution. He joined the Spin & Excitonic Engineering Group and the Bawendi Group in the fall of 2022. Oliver’s current research interests lie in the engineering of photon upconversion and singlet fission materials for both existing and novel applications.

Janet Wang

Janet Wang  is a graduate student in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at MIT. She received her B.S.E. in Electrical and Computer Engineering from Princeton University in 2022 and worked as an engineer at Enphase Energy before joining the Spin & Excitonic Engineering Group in the fall of 2023. Her previous work focused on studying the doping of organic semiconductors for solar applications. Currently, Janet is working on singlet fission sensitized photovoltaic devices.

Jong Woong Park

Jong Woong Park is a graduate student in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at MIT. He received his B.S. and M.S. in Materials Science and Engineering from Yonsei University in 2022 and 2024, respectively. His previous work focused on ultrasound-responsive displays and multimode luminescent platforms with room-temperature phosphorescent materials. He joined the Spin & Excitonics Engineering Group and the Bawendi Group in Fall 2024. Currently, he is working on blue OLED stability and OLED patterning.

Alumni

David Ciudad Río-Pérez

Sumit Dutta

Dong-Gwang Ha

Ting-An Lin

Brian Joseph Modtland

Phil Reusswig

Jason Sussman

Mengfei Wu

Narumi Nagaya