Spin & Excitonic Engineering Group
Prof. Marc Baldo

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Marc Baldo

office: 36-419
phone: 617-452-5132
email: baldo[at]mit.edu

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

office: 36-417
phone: 617-253-0085
email: cmbourg[at]mit.edu

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.

Dooyong Koh

office: 13-3061
phone: 617-324-3608
email: dooyong[at]mit.edu

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. His previous work mainly focused on neuromorphic computing using Spiking Neural Networks. He joined Spin and Excitonics Engineering Group and Spintronic Material and Device Group in Fall 2022. His current research interest lies on spintronic devices and their applications in next-generation computing.

Kangmin Lee

office: 13-3061
phone: 617-201-4045
email: kangmin[at]mit.edu

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.

Aaron Li

Email: aaronl46[at]mit.edu

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.

 

Brooke McGoldwick

office: 13-3041
email: bcmcgold[at]mit.edu

Brooke McGoldrick is a graduate student in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at MIT. She received her B.S. and M.Eng. in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from MIT in 2020 and 2021. She joined the Spintronic Material & Device group in 2019 and the Spin & Excitonic Engineering Group in 2022. She has experience fabricating magnetic tunnel junction devices, and her current research interests include using these devices for unconventional computing applications.

Oliver Nix

email: onix22[at]mit.edu

Oliver Nix is a graduate student in the Department of Chemistry at MIT. He received his B.A. in Chemistry/Physics in 2022. 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.

Cole Perkinson

office: 2-216 and 13-3029
phone: 617-452-2326
email: perkinsc[at]mit.edu

Cole Perkinson is a sixth-year graduate student at MIT in the Department of Chemistry. He received a B.A. in Physics/Chemistry from Reed College in 2013 and an M.Phil. in Physics from the University of Cambridge in 2015. His work at Cambridge focused on characterization of exciton dynamics in hybrid polymer/quantum dot thin films and nanocrystalline solar cells. He joined the Spin and Excitonics Engineering Group and the Bawendi Group in Fall 2015. Cole’s current research interests are on photophysical dynamics in excitonic systems, singlet fission, photon upconversion, and materials for third-generation photovoltaic devices.

Jaekang Song

office: 13-3041
phone: 617-460-3617
email: jaekang[at]mit.edu

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.

Jan Tiepelt

office: 13-3029
phone: 617-452-2326
email: jtiepelt[at]mit.edu

Jan Tiepelt is a fourth year graduate student in the Spin and Excitonics Engineering group. He received his his B.S. Materials Science from RWTH Aachen in 2013. After a six-month research stay at Princeton University in 2014, he attended ETH Zurich, where he earned his M.S. in Materials Science in 2017. Part of his M.S. research was carried out at MIT as a visiting student. His investigations are focused on efficiency roll-off and degradation phenomena in OLEDs as well as the improvement of light-outcoupling via surface plasmon modes.

Narumi Nagaya

office: 13-3061
phone: 617-324-3608
email: naruminw[at]mit.edu

Narumi Nagaya is a graduate student at MIT in the Department of Chemical Engineering. At Imperial College London, she received a MEng in Chemical Engineering with a Year Abroad in Columbia University in 2019. She has also spent time abroad at Kyoto University and at EPFL, working on a variety of projects including OPVs and quasi-2D perovskites. She joined the Spin and Excitonics Engineering Group and the Tisdale Lab in Spring 2020. Currently, she is working on investigating charge transfer across interfaces in photovoltaic devices.

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