| Name | Graduation Year | Thesis Subject | Affiliation |
|---|---|---|---|
| Xinjing Huang | 2023 | Device Physics and Applications of Ternary Organic Photovoltaics | |
| Boning Qu | 2023 | Methods for roll-to-roll deposition of organic semiconductors | Applied Materials |
| Jihun (Joon) Lim | 2023 | Understanding and advancing thermophotovoltaics | Wolfspeed |
| Byungjun Lee | 2021 | Thin-film III-V devices for low-cost detection and energy conversion | Apple |
| Kan Ding | 2021 | Understanding the Photogeneration Process in Organic Photovoltaics | North Carolina State University |
| Jongchan Kim | 2021 | Understanding and Controlling the Morphology of Organic Thin Films | Yonsei University |
| Dejiu Fan | 2020 | Enabling High Performance III-V Thin-film Photodetectors on Unconventional Surfaces | Applied Materials |
| Yue Qu | 2019 | Cavity Optics in Organic Semiconductors | Apple |
| Caleb Coburn | 2019 | Charge and Exciton Dynamics in Organic Optoelectronic Devices | Apple |
| Xiao Liu | 2018 | Energy Transfer in Organics in 3D and Limited Dimensional Systems | Apple |
| Quinn Burlingame | 2018 | Reliability of Organic Photovoltaics | Princeton University |
| Xiaozhou (Amy) Che | 2018 | High Efficiency Single and Mulitjunction OPVs | Applied Materials |
| Anurag Panda | 2018 | Organic-Inorganic Heterojunctions | Harvard University |
| Jaesang Lee | 2017 | Lifetime and efficiency of blue phosphorescent organic-light emitting diodes | Seoul National University |
| Xin Xiao | 2015 | Small Molecule Heterojunction Solar Cells Employing Mixed Donor-Acceptor Active Regions and Buffer Layers | Coursera |
| Kevin Bergemann | 2015 | Energy and charge transport in organic thin films | Amazon |
| Kyusang Lee | 2014 | Epitaxial liftoff and thin film optoelectronics | University of Virginia |
| Michael Slootsky | 2014 | Manipulating Light in Organic Thin-Film Devices | Apple |
| Xiaoran Tong | 2014 | Reliability of Organic Solar Cells | Intel |
| Yifan Zhang | 2014 | Excited State Interactions and Management in Organic Light Emitting Diodes | Apple |
| Christopher K. Renshaw | 2013 | Organic/Inorganic hybrid heterojunctions | University of Central Florida, CREOL |
| Brian Lassiter | 2013 | Tandem Organic Photovoltaics | Aya Healthcare |
| Greg McGraw | 2012 | Organic Vapor Jet Printing | Universal Display Corporation |
| Guodan Wei | 2012 | Squaraine Organic Photovoltaic Cells | Tsinghua-Berkeley Shenzhen Institute |
| Xiangfei Qi | 2011 | High Intensity Organic Light Emitting Diodes | Capital One |
| Xuhuai Zhang | 2011 | Negative Index Metamaterials | McKinsey |
| Kuen-Ting Shiu | 2010 | InP materials for Photonic Integrated Circuits and Solar Cells | Argo AI |
| Richard Lunt | 2010 | Crystalline Organic Solar Cells | Michigan State University |
| Stephane Kena-Cohen | 2010 | Exciton polaritons and polariton lasers | Ecole Polytechnic of Montreal |
| Xin Xu | 2010 | Hemispherical focal plane arrays and imagers | Universal Display Corporation |
| Noel C. Giebink | 2009 | Excited States in Organic Semiconductors | University of Michigan |
| Yiru Sun | 2008 | High Efficiency White Light OLEDs | New York Life Insurance Company |
| Fan Yang | 2008 | Organic Solar Cells Grown by OVPD | Zoox |
| Shashank Agashe | 2007 | Integrated MUX & DEMUX | Infinera |
| Barry Rand | 2006 | Fundamentals and Applications of Organic Solar Cells | Princeton University |
| Russell Holmes | 2006 | Luminescent Properties of Organic Thin Films | University of Minnesota |
| Shubhashish Datta | 2005 | RF Analog Optical Heterodyne Links | Discovery Semiconductors |
| Changsoon Kim | 2005 | Patterning of Organic Electronic Devices | Seoul National University |
| Fengnian Xia | 2005 | Photonic integrated detectors and receivers | Yale University |
| Jiangeng Xue | 2004 | Organic Photodetectors and Photovoltaics | University of Florida |
| Max Shtein | 2004 | Organic Vapor Phase Deposition | University of Michigan |
| Brian D'Andrade | 2004 | White OLEDs | Exponent, Inc. |
| Peter Peumans | 2004 | Organic Photodetectors | IMEC |
| Hongsheng Wang | 2003 | Vertical Cavity and Twin Waveguide Lasers | Alphion, Inc. |
| Jian Wei | 2002 | Materials and Detectors for Long Wavelength Communications and Sensing | Thorlabs Quantum Electronics |
| Marc Baldo | 2001 | Optical and Electronic Properties of Amorphous Organic Semiconductors | MIT |
| Pavel Studenkov | 2001 | Asymmetric Twin Waveguide Photonic Integrated Circuits | Infinera |
| John Thomson | 2001 | Integrated Photodetectors and Receivers for Optical Communications | Cisco |
| Chris Dries | 1999 | Gas Source MBE of Lasers and Detectors Using Strained Semiconductor Layers | United Silicon Carbide, Inc |
| Gong Gu | 1999 | Multicolor Organic LEDs | University of Tennessee, Knoxville |
| Vladimir Bulovic | 1998 | Organic Light Emitters | MIT |
| Zilan Shen | 1998 | Organic Light Emitting Devices and the Theory of Excited States in Organic Nanostructures | Guy Carpenter |
| Robert Taylor | 1998 | High Performance Optical Links, Phased Array Receivers | Infinera |
| Song Yu | 1997 | Integrated Optical Receivers | Intel |
| Dong Su Kim | 1996 | Ultralow Switching Energy Smart Pixels | Samsung Ventures |
| Ligeng Xu | 1996 | Integrated Lasers and Phased Array Radar | Intel |
| Kian Beyzavi | 1995 | Smart Pixels | Kbeyzavi Associates |
| Yajiong Zhang | 1995 | Theory of Organic Thin Film Growth | Deceased |
| Madabusi Govindarajan | 1994 | High Band Optical Receivers | LuxN, Sunnyvale, CA |
| Eliav Haskal | 1994 | Excited States in Organic Nanostructures | Philips Labs, Eindhoven |
| Guang-Jye Shiau | 1993 | MBE Growth of InP-based Lasers | Applied Materials |
| Yun Kee Chung | 1992 | Integrated Optical Receivers | Megasonics, Inc. |
| Jim Gardner | 1992 | Integrated Smart Pixels | Good Karma Bikes |
| Yue Liu | 1992 | Long Wavelength Photodetectors for Optical Communications | Honeywell Research Labs |
| Franky F. So | 1992 | Properties of Organic Thin Films | North Carolina State University |
| Julie Brown | 1991 | Optically Powered Smart Pixels | Universal Display Corp. |
| Dennis Chun-Wen Lo | 1991 | Integrated Optical Receivers | Ralink Technology |
| Chia Di Lee | 1990 | Deep Levels in InGaAs and Related Materials, Liquid Phase Epitaxy | China Resources Microelectronics, Hong Kong |
| Len-Yi Leu | 1990 | Deep Levels in InGaAs and Related Materials | TSMC |
The graduates include those who graduated from the OCM groups at University of Southern California and Princeton University, which were also directed by Prof. Forrest before he moved to the University of Michigan. Alumni affiliations may not be current.
