Faculty

Aharon and Rachel Dahan Nano-Energy Center

Main Research Areas 

• Light-matter interactions in molecular solids.
• Coherent excitonic coupling in semiconductor microcavity lasers.
• Formation of nanoscale, crystalline, organic thin films.
• Energy-transfer dynamics in J-aggregates and related light-harvesting materials.
• Organic optoelectronics: solar cells, switches, and OLEDs.

 

Awards 

• 1998 – Dean Scholar in Physics
• 1998 – Phi Beta Kappa Honors Society

 

Education 

• Ph.D – Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Electrical Engineering - 2007.
  Doctoral Dissertation: “Solid State Cavity QED: Practical Applications of Strong Coupling of Light and Matter” (Supervisor: Prof. V. Bulović).
• M.Sc – Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Electrical Engineering - 2003.
  Masters Thesis: “Electrically Pumped Polariton Emission in a J-aggregate Organic Light Emitting Device” (Supervisor: Prof. V. Bulović).
• B.Sc – University of Pennsylvania, Physics (Summa cum Laude) - 1999.

 

My Students 

 My Publications

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