Professor Vladimir Bulović
bulovic [at] mit.edu | RLE Biography
Office: 13-3138
Phone: 617.253.7012

Vladimir Bulović joined the faculty of MIT in July 2000 where he is now a Professor of Electrical Engineering, leading the Organic and Nanostructured Electronics Laboratory, co-directing the MIT-ENI Solar Frontiers Center.  As the MIT Energy Initiative council member Bulović is co-heading the Energy Education Task Force and co-directing the MIT Energy Studies Minor.  In 2008 he was named the Class of 1960 Faculy Fellow in recognition of his contributions to the energy education, and in 2009 he was named the Van Buren Hansford (1937) - Margaret MacVicar Faculty Fellow, MIT's highest teaching honor.

Bulović received electrical engineering B.S.E. in 1991 from Princeton University, M.S. in 1993 from Columbia University and Ph.D in 1998 from Princeton University. Just prior to joining MIT, he was a Senior Scientist and Project Head of Strategic Technology Development at Universal Display Corporation (UDC). At UDC he worked on the application of organic materials to LEDs for full color flat panel displays and thin film photovoltaics for solar cell and detector applications. Prior to UDC he worked in Princeton's POEM Center as a graduate researcher (1993-1998) and research associate (1998-1999) participating in a series of projects examining the optical and electrical properties of vacuum deposited amorphous and crystalline molecular organic thin films and devices. For his M.S. degree, Prof. Bulović worked at Columbia University's Microelectronics Sciences Laboratory (1991-1993), where he examined image-potential states and resonances on metal surfaces utilizing nonlinear two-photon photoemission spectroscopy.

At MIT his research interests include studies of physical properties of organic and organic/inorganic nanocrystal composite thin films and structures, and development of novel optoelectronic organic and hybrid nano-scale devices. His papers and patents cover the areas of organic and nanostructured light emitting diodes, lasers, photovoltaics, photodetectors, chemical sensors, and programmable memories, majority of which have been licensed and utilized by both start-up and multinational companies.

Together with ONE Lab alum Dr. Seth Coe-Sullivan, Bawendi group alum Dr. Jonny Steckel, and Sloan school graduate Greg Moeler, in 2004 Prof. Bulović founded QD Vision, Inc. of Watertown MA which is focused on development of quantum dot optolectronics.  Together with ONE Lab alums Dr. Conor Madigan and Dr. Jianglong (Gerry) Chen, Prof. Marty Schmidt and Dr. Valerie Leblanc, in 2007 Bulović founded Kateeva, Inc. (formerly named TJet Technologies, Inc.) of Menlo Park CA which is focused on development of printed organic electronics.

Prof. Bulović is a recipient of the U.S. Presidential Early Career Award for Scientist and Engineers, the National Science Foundation Career Award, The Ruth and Joel Spira Award for Distinguished Teaching, Eta Kappa Nu Honor Society Award for Outstanding Teaching, and was named to Technology Review TR100 List.

Prof. Bulovic's RLE video profile at MIT TechTV | Hi-Resolution Photo of Prof. Bulovic

Gleb Akselrod
akselrod [at] mit.edu
Office: 13-3146
Phone: 617.452.3210

Gleb joined ONE Lab in the Spring of 2008 as Ph.D. candidate in Physics. He earned his B.S. in Engineering Physics with honors from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 2007. During his sophomore and junior years he worked as an undergraduate researcher studying laser-guided assembly of living bacterial microarrays in the lab of Professor Gregory Timp. During his senior year he switched topics and began theoretical work in quantum optics under Professor Paul Kwiat modeling the quantum state of entangled photon sources. In 2007 he received the Hertz Fellowship and the NSF Graduate Research Fellowship to study physics at MIT. In ONE Lab he is currently studying the regime of strong coupling between organic materials and optical microcavities, which could lead to ultra energy efficient lasers and all-optical switches.

Trisha Andrew

trishala [at] mit.edu | MIT website

Office: 13-3153

Phone: 617.314.2974

Trisha L. Andrew joined ONE Lab in the beginning of 2011 as a postdoctoral fellow. She earned her B.S. with honors in chemistry from the University of Washington in 2005 and received her doctorate degree in organic chemistry from MIT in 2010. While working as a graduate researcher with Timothy M. Swager at MIT (2005-2010), she focused on designing and synthesizing organic chromophores and polymers for explosives detection, biological imaging, lithography and organic electronics. She is interested in demonstrating the synergistic relationship between synthetic organic chemists and device engineers. In ONE Lab, her current work focuses on studying polymer-fullerene interfaces in and designing fullerene alternatives for bulk-heterojunction solar cells. She is also interested in studying covalently-bonded organic chromophore/quantum dot composites. Trisha is a 2011 L'Oreal USA Fellow.

Patrick Brown
prbrown [at] mit.edu
Office: 13-3146
Phone: 617.452.5403

Patrick Brown joined the group in September 2009 as a first-year graduate student in Physics. While earning his B.S. in Physics and Chemistry at the University of Notre Dame, Patrick investigated the use of carbon nanostructures for optimizing charge collection and transfer in dye-sensitized and quantum dot solar cells. In the summer of 2008, Patrick participated in a research internship at the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) in Golden, CO, where he studied the growth of carbon nanotubes on conductive metal substrates for supercapacitors and hydrogen storage. He returned to NREL in the summer of 2009 to investigate the use of semiconducting and metallic single-walled carbon nanotube networks for transparent electrodes in organic photovoltaics. Patrick’s current work at ONE Lab focuses on understanding the physics of charge transport in multijunction quantum dot photovoltaics (QD PVs) and the development of novel all-inorganic QD PV architectures.

Wendi Chang

wchang7 [at] mit.edu

Office: 13-3149

Phone: 617.253.0830

Wendi Chang joined ONE lab in August 2011 as a Ph.D candidate in Electrical Engineering. She received her B.S. in Optics and B.A. Physics in from University of Rochester (2011). Her current research focuses on optical properties of J-aggregate materials and possible device applications, with broader interest in optoelectronic devices. Her past research experience includes building automated RF pulse-shaping system for superconducting qubit testing and reliability study for high voltage SiC VJFET at Northrop Grumman Corporation.

Ronny Costi

costi [at] mit.edu | MIT Website

Office: 13-3082

Phone: 617.253.0388

Costi joined ONE Lab in the spring of 2011 as a post-doctoral associate. He holds a B.Sc. in chemistry and an M.Sc. and a Ph.D. in Physical Chemistry from from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel. As a graduate student in Professor Uri Banin's research group, Costi studied light induced electronic processes in hybrid metal-semiconductor nanoparticles.
In ONE Lab his work focuses on heterogeneous catalytic processes on surfaces and interfaces.

Eletha Flores

ejflores [at] mit.edu

Office: 13-3146

Phone: 617.452.3181

Read more about Eletha in EECS-newsletter

Eletha joined ONE Lab in the spring of 2011 as a Master's of Engineering candidate in EECS. She holds a B.S. in Electrical Engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. As an undergraduate, she worked under Professor Joel Schindall on carbon nanotube-based ultracapacitors to improve energy storage capability. She continued this work as an engineer at a spin-off start-up company in Boston (2010-2011). In the ONE Lab, her work focuses on light-trapping methods to enhance the efficiency of organic photovoltaic cells.

Yu Gu

guyu [at] mit.edu

Office: 13-3082

Phone: 617.253.8520

Yu Gu joined ONE lab in the summer of 2011 as a post-doctoral associate. She received a B. S. in Engineering Physics from Cornell University in 2005, and her Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from MIT in 2011. During her Ph.D. study, she spent three semesters as an overseas scholar in the Department of Physics at Milan Polytechnic University in Milan, Italy. Her thesis topic was femtosecond laser materials processing for applications in photonics and Lab-On-Chip technologies. She is now adding a strong focus to undergraduate education.

Joel Jean

jjean [at] mit.edu

Office: 13-3146

Phone: 617.452.5403

Joel Jean joined ONE Lab in August 2011 as a Ph.D. candidate in Electrical Engineering at MIT. His current work focuses on the development of quantum dot photovoltaics (QD-PV), while his broader research interests include nanoelectronics, semiconductor device physics, and solid-state devices for logic and energy applications. Joel graduated from Stanford University in June 2011 with a B.S. in Electrical Engineering. As an undergraduate at Stanford, he worked on a new solar energy conversion technique called photon-enhanced thermionic emission (PETE). He developed a Monte Carlo simulation of electron dynamics in nanostructures with Dr. Igor Bargatin and Professor Roger Howe, and later used the simulation to investigate photoemission from nanostructured surfaces and to optimize PETE converters. He also characterized and tested nanoelectromechanical (NEM) relays—a low-power mechanical alternative to silicon MOSFETs—as a member of Stanford's NEM Logic team. Joel is currently supported by a Siemens-MIT Energy Fellowship and by a National Science Foundation (NSF) Graduate Research Fellowship.

Dong Kyun 'Ko'

dkyunko [at] mit.edu

Office: 13-3078

Phone: 617.253.6893

Ko joined ONE Lab in September 2011 as a post-doctoral associate. He received a B.S. in Materials Science and Engineering from Yonsei University, South Korea in 2005 and his M.S. and Ph.D in Materials Science and Engineering from University of Pennsylvania. As a graduate student in Chris Murray's group, Ko studied electronic transport and thermoelectric power generation in semiconductor nanocrystal assemblies. Joint with Moungi Bawendi's Lab, his work focuses on quantum dot solar cells.

Hsinyi 'Katey' Lo

katey [at] mit.edu

Office: 36-497

Phone: 617.324.2249

Katey received her B.S. from National Taiwan University (2004), and her M.S. and Ph.D. degrees from Carnegie Mellon University (2005, 2009), all in Mechanical Engineering. She also interned at the IBM Zurich Research Laboratory, Switzerland for the summer in 2008. The research focus was on probe-based study on phase change material films. While at CMU, Katey worked on phase change materials and conductive atomic force microscopy for reconfigurable RF circuits. Her current research includes study of thermoelectric materials using thermoreflectance technique and energy harvesting for medical applications.

Andrea Maurano

maurano [at] mit.edu

Office: 13-3145

Phone: 617.324.8110

Andrea joined ONE lab in the fall of 2011 as postdoctoral associate. He earned his Master degree in Physics at the Federico II University in Naples, Italy in 2005 to then receive his PhD in Physical Chemistry from Imperial College London in the groups of Profs James Durrant and John deMello. During his PhD he investigated recombination mechanisms that limit performances of polymer solar cells. He then joined as a postdoc Merck Chemicals research labs in UK to study inverted structures for polymer solar cells. In ONE lab he is investigating fabrication of nanostructured photovoltaic devices consisting of molecular and polymeric thin films and colloidal quantum dots.  

Apoorva Murarka

apoorva [at] mit.edu

Office: 13-3146

Phone: 617.452.5403

Read more about Apoorva in EECS-newsletter

Farnaz Niroui

fniroui [at] mit.edu

Office: 13-3145

Phone: 617.324.8110

Farnaz joined ONE Lab in August 2011 as a first-year graduate student in Mechanical Engineering. She received her B.ASc in Honours Nanotechnology Engineering from University of Waterloo in 2011. While completing her undergraduate studies she worked on synthesis of ZnO nanostructures, utilizing them in development of flexible glucose sensors. She also focused on developing multimodal contrast agents with imaging and therapeutic capabilities. In 2009, Farnaz worked as a research assistant in Professor Robert Langer’s lab at MIT focusing on development of biomaterials and nanoscale systems for efficient DNA and siRNA delivery. During her senior years of undergraduate studies, she investigated various methods of fabricating MEMS-based supercapacitors for integration with micropower generators. Her undergraduate thesis focused on designing a system for aptamer-based multiple cancer detection using magnetic quantum dots coupled with magnetophoretic separation and fluorescence detection. Farnaz’s current work at ONE lab focuses on developing low power electronic switches and circuits using polymer nanocomposites.

Tim Osedach
osedach [at] mit.edu
Office: 13-3157
Phone: 617.452.4778

Tim is an Applied Physics Ph.D. candidate at Harvard University working as a graduate research assistant in ONE Lab at MIT. His work is in the area of solar cells and photodetectors that incorporate organic semiconductors and nanocrystal quantum dots. In particular, he is interested in exploring exciton dissociation at organic/nanocrystal heterointerfaces. He holds a Bachelor of Science degree in electrical and computer engineering from Rowan University (2005) and a Master of Science degree in Applied Physics from Harvard University (2007).

Sarah Paydavosi
sarap [at] mit.edu
Office: 13-3154
Phone: 617.452.3210

Read more about Sarah in EECS-newsletter

Sarah Paydavosi joined ONE Lab in 2008 as a Ph.D. candidate. Sarah received electrical engineering B.S. in 2005, M.S. in 2007 from University of Tehran. For her Master research thesis project, Sarah worked on low temperature silicon crystallization and thin-film transistors on plastic substrates. Her current research focuses on using molecules as segmented charge storage elements in floating gate flash memories.

Sulinya Ramanan

sulinya [at] mit.edu

Office: 13-3153

Phone: 617.258.9139

Read more about Sulinya in EECS-newsletter

Sulinya joined ONE Lab in the summer of 2009 as an undergraduate research assistant. She received dual Bachelor's degrees in Electrical Engineering and Physics from MIT, and is currently pursuing her Master of Engineering degree in Electrical Engineering. Sulinya's research interests focus on developing nanoscale patterning of organics using a novel contact-printing mechanism.

Jill Rowehl
jillar [at] mit.edu
Office: 13-3150
Phone: 617.452.3181

Jill joined ONE Lab in Spring 2007 as an undergraduate researcher studying photo-generated charge recombination at organic semiconductor interfaces with the objective of enhancing responsivity of organic heterojunction photoconductors.  She received her S.B. from MIT Course 3 in Spring 2008 and continued within ONE Lab as a PhD candidate in Course 3.  Her current research works to develop cost-effective, power-efficient nanostructured solar cells via novel fabrication methods, materials, and device structures, with strong collaborations through MITEI.  She focuses on understanding and manipulating processes occurring at the photoactive interface in organic photovoltaics through modification of the nanostructure.

Yasuhiro Shirasaki
yshir [at] mit.edu
Office: 13-3154
Phone: 617.452.3194

Read more about Yasuhiro in EECS-newsletter

Yasuhiro Shirasaki joined the group in September 2006 after receiving a B.S. in Electrical Science and Engineering and a B.S. in Physics from MIT.  He received a Master of Engineering in February 2008 and is currently in the Ph.D. program of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science department.  His research interest is in understanding the physics of J aggregates of small organic molecules and quantum dots and applying them to novel optoelectronic devices.

Katherine Song
kwsong [at] mit.edu
Office: 13-3157

Phone: 617.452.4778

Katherine joined ONE Lab in August 2011 as a Ph.D. candidate in electrical engineering. She received a B.S.E. with highest honors in electrical engineering from Princeton University in 2011. At Princeton, she conducted research with Professors Sigurd Wagner and Naveen Verma in the area of flexible electronics, designing and fabricating amorphous silicon thin film transistors and large area circuits. During the summer of 2010, she was also a visiting researcher at Palo Alto Research Center, where she worked with Dr. Bob Street on characterizing bulk heterojunction organic solar cells and amorphous silicon nanowire solar cells. With funding from MIT’s Henry Ford II Fellowship and NSF's Graduate Research Fellowship, Katherine’s current interest is in the development of novel fabrication techniques for quantum dot LEDs.

Katherine Stone
kawstone [at] mit.edu
Office: 13-3146

Phone: 617.452.5403

Kathy Stone joined ONE Lab in 2009 as a joint post-doctoral researcher with Vladimir Bulovic and Keith Nelson (MIT Department of Chemistry) after completing her Ph.D. in physical chemistry with Professor Nelson. During her Ph.D. work, she pioneered the use of spatiotemporal femtosecond pulse shaping for coherent multidimensional Fourier Transform electronic spectroscopy of multi-exciton dynamics in inorganic semiconductors. She is currently interested in the nonlinear optical properties of J-aggregates and how single and multi-exciton dynamics play a role in the physics of strong coupling of J-aggregate excitons to cavity-confined photons and surface plasmon polaritons. These studies will guide the fabrication of J-aggregate microcavity devices for applications in "inversionless" polariton lasing and ultrafast optical switching. Kathy is also interested in probing the transfer ofexciton coherence and population through the layers of organic thin-film devices and organic-inorganic composite materials. Kathy is also member of the Center for Excitonics at MIT.

Geoffrey Supran

gjsupran [at] mit.edu

Office: 13-3153

Phone: 617.452.3194

Geoffrey Supran matriculated as a Ph.D. candidate in the department of Materials Science & Engineering at MIT and joined ONE Lab in September 2009. He obtained a First Class Honours degree (B.A.) in Natural Sciences (physics) from Trinity College, University of Cambridge, in 2009. As an undergraduate and high-school student Geoffrey was fortunate to participate in a number of optoelectronics summer research projects. In 2005, under the supervision of Professor Richard Friend at the Cavendish Laboratory, Cambridge, he investigated phase separation in polyfluorene-based electroluminescent spin-cast thin films, with particular emphasis on incorporation of random copolymers into organic LEDs. In the Alivisatos Group at UC Berkeley in 2006, he investigated morphological control in all-inorganic solar cells comprising tetrapod shaped nanocrystals. In 2008 he investigated injection and transport mechanisms of the recombination region of high-efficiency polymer tandem solar cells in the Heeger Group at UC Santa Barbara. Geoffrey’s current work focuses on understanding the photo-physics of quantum dot LEDs and applying these underlying principles to the development of novel device structures.

William Tisdale

tisdale [at] mit.edu | Website

Office: 66-458

Phone: 617.253.4975

Read more about Will in EECS-newsletter

Will joined ONE Lab in the summer of 2010 after completing his Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering at the University of Minnesota. There, he studied fundamental properties of quantum dots (QDs) for use in next-generation solar cells. His doctoral work addressed the dynamics of electron transfer and relaxation in QDs and near semiconductor surfaces using ultrafast photoelectron and nonlinear optical spectroscopies. Now with ONE Lab, he is currently investigating exciton diffusion and energy transfer in QD and molecular thin film structures, with an eye toward applications including fluorescence enhancement, energy concentrators, optical switching, lasers, and large area light-emitting devices. Through funding from the MIT Institute for Soldier Nanotechnologies, Will is also engaged in development of a new type of near-field scanning optical microscope (NSOM) for chemical mapping of surfaces with unprecedented spatial resolution.
In January 2012, Will joined the faculty at MIT as an Assistant Professor of Chemical Engineering.

Annie Wang

aiwang [at] mit.edu

Office: 13-3153

Phone: 617.258.9139

Annie joined ONELab in 2011 as a joint postdoctoral researcher with Prof. Bulovic and Prof. Jeffrey Lang after completing her Ph.D. in electrical engineering at MIT. Her graduate work in Prof. Tayo Akinwande's group (EECS, MIT Microsystems Technology Laboratory) focused on developing organic and oxide semiconductor thin film transistors (TFTs) for large area flexible electronics, particularly a low-temperature-budget, scalable fabrication process for oxide TFT circuits. Now in ONELab, her research interests will focus on the design and fabrication of polymer nanocomposites for ultra low power electronic switches and circuits.

Mun Ee 'Mandy' Woo

mandywoo [at] mit.edu

Office: 13-3157

Phone: 617.452.4778

Mandy joined the group in June 2011 as a first-year graduate student in Materials Science and Engineering. She earned her B.S. in Materials Science and Engineering with High Distinction from the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities, in May 2010. During her Junior and Senior years, she worked with Professor C. Daniel Frisbie, focusing on the identification of microstructure-property relationships in pentacene, a benchmark semiconductor used in organic field effect transistors (OFET). She employed a novel variant of scanning probe microscopy, termed Transverse Shear Microscopy (TSM), to study the microstructure and growth mechanism of vapor deposited pentacene films on polystyrene, poly(alpha-methylstyrene), poly(methyl methacrylate), and SiO2. Her current project involves the development and fabrication of sensor arrays that are made up of polymer/nanoparticle composites.