People - MIT-Harvard Center for Excitonics
Faculty/Principal Investigators
Marc Baldo
baldo@mit.edu
phone: 617.452.5132
office: 13-3053
MIT
(Center Director) Baldo pioneered phosphorescent OLEDs - now standard for high efficiency solid state lighting.
Group Members:
Dong-Gwang Ha, Ting-An Lin, Brian Modtland, Collin Perkinson, Saima Siddiqui, Mengfei Wu
Alan Aspuru-Guzik
alan@aspuru.com
phone: (617) 384-8188
fax: (617) 496-9411
office: M113
Harvard University
Aspuru-Guzik pioneered the application of open quantum systems to understand energy transfer in natural and artificial antennas.
Group Members:
Doran Bennett, Samual Blau, David Glebwaser, Florian Hase, Christoph Kreisbeck, Thomas Markovich, Semion Saikin, Nicolas Sawaya, Dennis Sheberla, Tony Wu
Mark Bathe
mbathe@mit.edu
phone: 617-324-5685
office: 16-255
MIT
Bathe is developing computational procedures to design structured 3D biological assemblies. We use these as scaffolds for multichromophore complexes that form nanoscale synthetic excitonic antennas.
Group Members:
James Banal, William Bricker
Moungi Bawendi
mgb@MIT.EDU
phone: (617) 253-9796
fax: (617) 253-7030
office: 6-221
MIT
Bawendi pioneered the science and technology of colloidal semiconductor quantum dots and led the spectroscopy of quantum dots at the ensemble and single quantum dot scale.
Group Members:
Sophie Bertram, Justin Caram, Lea Nienhaus, Michel Nasilowski, Collin Perkinson, Timothy Sinclair, Katherine Shullenberger, Hendrik Utzat
Charles Black
ctblack@bnl.gov
phone: 631-344-3093
fax: 631-344-3093
Brookhaven National Laboratory
Black pioneered nanometer-scale self assembly in lithography.
Vladimir Bulovic
bulovic@mit.edu
phone: (617) 253-7012
fax: (617) 452-5110
office: 13-3138
MIT
Bulovic and colleagues demonstrated the first electroluminescence from an exciton polariton and also pioneered QD-LEDs.
Group Members:
Thomas Mahony, Mengfei Wu, Sihan Xie, Tony Zhu
Eric Dauler
edauler@ll.mit.edu
phone: 781-981-5707
office: LL-S3-132
MIT Lincoln Laboratory
Dauler and his colleagues are using superconducting nanowire single photon detectors to study the dynamics of lower energy excitons that emit in the short-wave infrared (SWIR). These detectors have enabled studying individual colloidal quantum dots at SWIR wavelengths.
Mircea Dincă
mdinca@mit.edu
phone: 617-253-4154
fax: (617) 258-7500
office: 6-335
MIT
The Dincă Lab is focused on challenges related to the storage and consumption of energy and global environmental concerns. Central to our efforts is the manipulation of electrochemical and photophysical processes in inorganic materials, with a current emphasis on microporous materials.
Group Members:
Bobby Day, Lei Sun
Dirk Englund
englund@mit.edu
phone: (617) 324-7014
office: 36-591
MIT
Englund's research focuses on controlling light-matter interactions at the scale of single photon and single emitters, leveraging light confinement in novel nanophotonic devices.
Group Members:
Hyeongrak Choi, Christopher Foy, Gabrielle Grosso, Cheng Peng
Pablo Jarillo-Herrero
pjarillo@mit.edu
phone: (617) 253-3653
office: 13-2017
MIT
Jarillo-Herrero's group works on the optoelectronic and energy harvesting properties of novel 2-dimensional materials, such as graphene and transition metal dichalcogenides. In the center, his work is focused on the fabrication of ultrathin van der Waals heterostructures made of 2D materials for novel photovoltaic and LED devices.
Group Members:
Yaqing Bie, Qiong Ma, Luiz Martins, Efren Navarro-Moratalla, Melis Tekant
Jing Kong
jingkong@mit.edu
phone: (617) 324-4068
office: 13-3065
MIT
Kong's group is designing new strategies to make graphene, MoS2, and other novel 2D materials with desired physical, chemical qualities. The in-depth understanding in how to make those materials is enabling us to develop brand new architectures for high-performance electronics and energy conversion.
Group Member:
Xiang Ji, Luiz Martins
Leonid Levitov
levitov@mit.edu
phone: (617) 253 6817
Fax: (617) 253 2562
office: 6C-345
MIT
Levitov's current interests include: quantum transport, solid-state quantum computing, cold atoms, exciton BEC, quantum noise, and growth and pattern formation.
Group Member:
Brian Skinner
Ju Li
liju@mit.edu
phone: 617-253-0166
office: 24-202
MIT
Ju Li is interested in the structure and excitonic properties of 2D materials, as well as electron microscopy characterizations.
Group Member:
Jian Zhou
Gabriela Schlau-Cohen
gssc@mit.edu
phone: 617-253-1478
office: 6-225
MIT
Schlau-Cohen studies the energetic and structural dynamics of biological and bio-inspired systems using ultrafast and single-molecule spectroscopy, with a particular focus on understanding nanoscale energy transport.
Group members:
Wei Jai Chen, Jesse Gordon
Eric Stach
stach@seas.upenn.edu
220 South 33rd Street, 107 Towne Building
Philadelphia, PA 19104-6391
UPenn, formerly at BNL
Stach's research interests focus on the development and application of electron microscopy techniques to solve materials problems in catalysis, energy storage, thin film, and nanostructure growth and materials deformation. The development and application of new instrumentation has been a critical component of his research focus.
Will Tisdale
tisdale@mit.edu
phone: 617-253-4975
office: 66-458
MIT
Will Tisdale studies charge and energy transfer in nanostructured materials using ultrafast and near-field scanning optical microscopy techniques, with particular emphasis on semiconductor nanocrystals.
Group Members:
Aaron Goodman, Elizabeth Lee, Watcharaphol Paritmongkol, Kris Williams
Troy Van Voorhis
tvan@mit.edu
phone: (617) 253-1488
office: 6-229
MIT
Van Voorhis pioneered the use of constrained density functional theory (DFT) for the description of electron transfer and exciton formation in OLEDs.
Group Members:
Nadav Geva, Zhou Lin, Alexandra McIsaac, Hongzhou Ye
Adam Willard
awillard@mit.edu
phone: 617-253-1480
office: 6-231
MIT
Willard studies the dynamics of excitons in environments that are disordered on nanometer length scales using statistical mechanics and numerical simulations of quantum dynamics.
Group Members:
Elizabeth M Lee, Chee Kong Lee
PostDocs
Doran Bennett
doranbennett@g.harvard.edu
office: M-112, 12 Oxford Street, Cambridge, MA 02138
Aspuru-Guzik Group
Bobby Day
rwday@mit.edu
phone: 617-253-6192
office: 2-316
Dinca Group
Zhou Lin
zhoulin@mit.edu
phone: 617-253-1539
office: 6-226
Van Voorhis Group
Kris Williams
kwil@mit.edu
office: 66-216
phone: 617-324-9637
Tisdale Group
Jian Zhou
jianzhou@mit.edu
phone: 617) 253-1930
office: NW14-2321
Li Group
Students
Chee Kong Lee
cheekong@mit.edu
phone: 617-253-1000
office: 2-221
Willard Group
Thomas Markovich
markovich@fas.harvard.edu
office: M-493, 12 Oxford Street, Cambridge, MA 02138
Aspuru-Guzik Group
Nicolas Sawaya
nicolassawaya@fas.harvard.edu
phone: (619) 850 4653
office: Cv-B21, 12 Oxford Street, Cambridge, MA 02138
Aspuru-Guzik Group
Hongzhou Ye
Van Voorhis Group
Staff
Catherine Bourgeois
Program Manager
cmbourg@mit.edu
phone: (617) 253-0085
fax: 617-324-5275
office: 13-3057
Semion Saikin
Research Associate
saykin@fas.harvard.edu
phone (617) 495-9676
12 Oxford Street, Cambridge, MA 02138
Aspuru-Guzik Group
Former Faculty
Alumni
Austin, TX
MIT
UCLA
The City College of New York (CUNY)
Kyoto University, Japan
Peking University
Berggren Group, MIT
Center for Functional Nanomaterials,
Brookhaven National Laboratory
PolyQolor Inc.
ICMol, The Institute of Molecular Science, Spain
Micro-Leads Inc.
Organic Semiconductors at the Technische Universität, Dresden
Dept. of Chemistry
University of California, Los Angeles
Analog Photonics, Boston
Bathe Group, MIT
Intellectual Ventures
Aspuru-Guzik Group, Harvard
Kimerling Group
Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry
University of California, San Diego
Nelson Group, MIT
