Taein Lee
Taein’s research activity is focused on design optimization of devices based on organic electrical materials using processing techniques for structural identification/analysis (using SEM/EDS, XRD, optical laser microscope, film thickness measurements) and electrical property analysis (using probe station in various environmental settings).
Materials being researched include organic oligomers composed of amino acid side chains with chromophoric central cores and growth of organic electric nanocrystallites in dielectric films for investigating potential applications.
Research Interests: Dielectrics, Organic oligomers, Structural analysis
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Yunjia Song
Yunjia Song joined the Katz research group in 2018. After graduating from Johns Hopkins in 2020 as a Masters student, she continued as a PhD student. She has a Bachelors degree in polymer materials science and engineering, and continues her research in the biomaterials and electronic device fields.
Research interest: Biosensors, Electrochemical sensors.
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Andrew Lippe
Andrew graduated from the University of Maryland in the spring of 2018 with his B.S. in Bioengineering. He previously worked at Loccioni USA on robotic automation solutions for two years. He began pursuing a M.S. in Electrical and Computer Engineering at Johns Hopkins in the fall of 2020 and became part of the Katz group shortly after. His research focuses on organic transistor-based biosensors and chemical sensors, specifically fabricating circuit configurations for improved performance.
Research Interests: Sensor circuits, biosensors, chemical vapor sensors, fabrication and optimization.
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Louise Nan Chen
Louise graduated from New York University in May 2020 with a B.S/M.S degree in Chemical Engineering and a minor in Business Study. She has previous experience with fabricating thermoelectric devices using sustainable metal chalcogenides in her undergraduate research. She joined Prof. Katz’s lab in Fall 2020 and she is currently a first-year PhD student. Her research focuses on inorganic-organic hybrid materials and their applications in electronic devices. She also works with polyelectrolytes and studying strategies to improve their ionic Seebeck coefficients in order to enhance their thermoelectric performance.
Research Interests: Ionic Seebeck coefficient, ionic polymers, polyelectrolytes, inorganic-organic hybrid materials, thermoelectrics, vapor sensing
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Riley Bond
Riley graduated from the University of Minnesota – Twin Cities in May 2020 with a B.S. in Materials Science & Engineering and a minor in Chemistry. His undergraduate research experience includes polymer processing and characterization research performed both at the University of Minnesota and 3M. He joined the Katz research group in Fall 2020 as a PhD student in the Materials Science & Engineering program. His current research focuses on electrical property analysis and structural characterization of organic field-effect transistor (OFET) devices that utilize organic dielectric and semiconducting materials.
Research Interests: Organic dielectrics, organic semiconductors, OFET fabrication and characterization, chemical synthesis.
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