Group Members
Research Assistant Professor
PhD institution and major: Institute of Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences (ICCAS), Beijing; Polymer Physics and Chemistry
E-mail: lye4 at ncsu.edu
Birthday: July 12th
Post-doctoral Associates
Masrur Morshed Nahid
PhD institution and major: Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Monash University, Australia
PhD Adviser: Chris McNeill
MSc: Department of Physics, Umea University, Sweden
MSc Advisor: Ludvig Edman
BSc: Department of Physics, University of Dhaka, Bangladesh
Research Interests: Investigation of charge transport in organic (Opto-)/electronic materials e.g. polymers, small molecules and perovskites by implementing them in various devices e.g. field effect transistors, sensors and photovoltaics, and studying their structure-property relationships in thin-films with a range of synchrotron based X-ray techniques such as Near Edge X-ray Absorption Spectroscopy (NEXAFS), Resonant Soft X-ray Scattering (RSoXS), Small/Wide Angle X-ray Scattering (SAXS/WAXS).
Hobbies: watching movies, reading/listening books and Astrobiology
E-mail: mnahid at ncsu.edu
Huawei Hu
PhD institution and major: Chemistry, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
PhD Adviser: Henry Yan
Research Interests: Synthesis of polymers for organic electronics, investigating structure-property-performance of organic solar cells, X-ray Scattering
Hobbies: Soccer, fishing, traveling
E-mail: hhu14 at ncsu.edu
Graduate Students
Indunil Angunawela
Ph.D Candidate: 2015-present
BSc Institution and major: University of Peradeniya, Sri Lanka
Research Interests: Morphological studies on semiconductor materials and carbon electronics
Hobbies: Playing games,Reading and travelling
E-mail: ianguna at ncsu.edu
Zhengxing Peng
Ph.D Candidate: 2015-present
BS Institution and major: University of Science and Technology of China, Nuclear Science and Technology
Research Interests: The performance of organic solar cell with the tool of X-ray scattering
Hobbies: Reading and travelling
E-mail: zpeng6 at ncsu.edu
Samuel Stuard
B.S. Institution and Major: The Ohio State University, Engineering Physics
Research Interests: electronic and magnetic materials, device physics
Hobbies: soccer, ultimate disc, games, history
E-mail: sjstuard at ncsu.edu
Reece Henry
B.S. Institution and Major: University of Washington, Seattle; Physics
Research Interests: Electron diffraction studies of organic materials, thermal properties of OPV materials, physics of polymer side-chains
Hobbies: Video games, reading, philosophy, Socratic debate
E-mail: rlhenry at ncsu.edu
Undergraduate Researchers
Noah Wolfe
High School: Lake Norman High School, Mooresville, NC
Declared Major: Physics
Research Interests: Organic photovoltaics, simulating the optical properties of tandem cell OPVs
Hobbies: Astronomy, Programming, Hiking
Email: newolfe at ncsu.edu
Thomas Steckmann
High School: Raleigh Charter High School
Declared Major: Physics
Research Interests: Analyzing the electron and hole mobility of organic semiconductors in field effect transistors in order to evaluate the effects of polymer morphology on device performance.
Hobbies: Board and card games, programming, and working at Habitat for Humanity
Email: tmsteckm at ncsu.edu
Alumni
Former post-doctoral Fellows
Long Ye
Masrur Morshed Nahid
Huawei Hu
Subhrangsu Mukharjee (left 2016) – NIST
Adrian Hunt (left 2016) – Brookhaven National Lab
John Tumbleston – Carbon3D
Wei Ma – Xi’an Jiaotong University
Brian Collins – Washington State University
Benjamin Watts – Swiss Light Source
Omar Awartani (left 2017) -Intel
Joo-Hyun Kim (left 2017)
Former PhD students
Joshua Carpenter
Masoud Ghasemi
Cheng Wang
Hongping Yan
Eliot Gann
Terry McAfee
Xuechen Jiao
Former MS students