Group Members

Post-doctoral Associates

Byongkyu Lee

PhD institution and major: Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology (Ulsan, South Korea); Energy Engineering

PhD Adviser: Changduk Yang

Research Interests: Relationship between chemical structure and film morphology

Hobbies: Cooking

E-mail: blee27 [at] ncsu [dot] edu

Xinyun Dong

PhD institution and major: Wuhan National Laboratory of Optoelectronics, Huazhong University of Science and Technology (China); Optical Engineering

PhD Adviser: Yinhua Zhou

Research Interests: Printable organic electronics and organic photovoltaics

Hobbies: Traveling

E-mail: xdong25 [at] ncsu [dot] edu

Runqiao Song

PhD institution and major: North Carolina State University; Mechanical Engineering

PhD Adviser: Brendan O’Connor

Research Interests: Stretchable electronics, Mechanical behavior of polymer

E-mail: rsong3 [at] ncsu [dot] edu

Kan Ding

PhD institution and major: University of Michigan; Physics

PhD Adviser: Stephen R Forrest

Research Interests: Organic optoelectronic devices

Hobbies: Cat, hiking, video games

E-mail: djmdk2 [at] gmail [dot] com

Graduate Students

Somayeh Kashani

Ph.D. Candidate (Physics)

BS/MS Institution and major: University of Tehran; Physics

Research Interests: Opto-electronic properties of Organic Semiconductors

Hobbies: painting, DIY projects, cooking, traveling

E-mail: skashan [at] ncsu [dot] edu

Reece Henry

Ph.D. Candidate (Physics)

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 [dot] edu

Yash Dineshbhai Bharodiya

Ph.D. Candidate (Materials Science and Engineering)

M.S. Institution and Major: NCSU; Nanoengineering

B.S. Institution and Major: Gujarat Technological University (2019); B.E. Nanotechnology

Research Interests: Ultra-high efficiency flexible OPVs, Encapsulation barrier layers, Carbon nanomaterials

Hobbies: watch movies, go on track, cooking

E-mail: ybharod [at] ncsu [dot] edu

Ben Hines

B.S. Institution and Major: NCSU; Physics

Research Interests: Photodegradation of organic solar cells, automation

Hobbies: weight lifting

E-mail: bghines2 [at] ncsu [dot] edu
 
 
 

Undergraduate Researcher

Breanne Aiken

B.S. Institution and Major: NCSU; Physics

Research Interests: Photovoltaics

Hobbies: coding, video games, board games, darts

E-mail: baiken [at] ncsu [dot] edu

Alumni

Former post-doctoral Fellows

Long Ye – Tianjin University

Masrur Morshed Nahid – ASML

Huawei Hu – Donghua University

Omar Awartani – Meta

Joo-Hyun Kim – KIST

Subhrangsu Mukherjee  – ORaCEL

Adrian Hunt – Brookhaven National Lab

Wei Ma – Xi’an Jiaotong University

John Tumbleston – Carbon3D

Brian Collins – Washington State University

Benjamin Watts – Swiss Light Source
 

Former PhD students

Zhengxing Peng  – Advanced Light Source

Indunil Angunawela  – Intel

Samuel Stuard

Masoud Ghasemi – Penn State

Joshua Carpenter

Xuechen Jiao – NSRL, China

Terry McAfee  – ALS

Eliot Gann  – NIST (@ NSLS-II)

Hongping Yan  – SSRL

Cheng Wang  – ALS