Minjoo Lawrence Lee

For More Information

• Lee Group at ECE Illinois website

Education

• Ph.D., MIT, 2003
• Sc.B., Brown University, 1998

Academic Positions

• Director, HMNTL, 1/2023-present
• Professor, ECE Illinois, 8/2021-present
• Associate Professor, ECE Illinois, 8/2016-8/2021
• Assistant, Associate Professor, Yale University, Electrical Engineering, 1/2008-8/2016

Research Topics

• Beyond CMOS
• Electronics, Plasmonics, and Photonics
• Energy
• Photonics: optical engineering and systems
• Semiconductor devices and manufacturing
• Solar and renewable technology

Selected Articles in Journals

• Faucher, J., Y. Sun, D. Jung, D. Martin, T. Masuda and M. L. Lee (2016). "High-efficiency AlGaInP solar cells grown by molecular beam epitaxy." Applied Physics Letters 109(17): 172105.
• Jung, D., L. Yu, S. Dev, D. Wasserman and M. L. Lee (2016). "Room-temperature mid-infrared quantum well lasers on multi-functional metamorphic buffers." Applied Physics Letters 109(21): 211101.
• Yaung, K. N., M. Vaisman, J. Lang and M. L. Lee (2016). "GaAsP solar cells on GaP/Si with low threading dislocation density." Applied Physics Letters 109(3).
• Jung, D., J. Faucher, S. Mukherjee, A. Akey, D. J. Ironside, M. Cabral, X. Sang, J. Lebeau, S. R. Bank, T. Buonassisi, O. Moutanabbir and M. L. Lee (2017). "Highly tensile-strained Ge/InAlAs nanocomposites." Nature Communications 8: 14204.
• Vaisman, M., S. Fan, K. Nay Yaung, E. Perl, D. Martin-Martin, Z. J. Yu, M. Leilaeioun, Z. C. Holman and M. L. Lee (2017). "15.3%-Efficient GaAsP Solar Cells on GaP/Si Templates." ACS Energy Letters 2(8): 1911-1918.
• Yerino, C. D., B. Liang, D. L. Huffaker, P. J. Simmonds and M. L. Lee (2017). "Review Article: Molecular beam epitaxy of lattice-matched InAlAs and InGaAs layers on InP (111)A, (111)B, and (110)." Journal of Vacuum Science & Technology B, 35(1): 010801.
• S. Fan, Z. J. Yu, R.D. Hool, P. Dhingra, W. Weigand, M. Kim, E. D. Ratta, B.D. Li, Y. Sun, Z. C. Holman and M. L. Lee (2020). "Current-Matched III-V/Si Epitaxial Tandem Solar Cells with 25.0% Efficiency," Cell Reports Physical Science, 1(9), p.100208.
• P. Dhingra, S. Fan, Y. Sun, R. D. Hool, B. Eng, M. L. Lee (2020). "InP quantum dots for dislocation-tolerant, visible light emitters on Si," (Editor's Pick) Applied Physics Letters, 117:118102.
• P. Dhingra, P. Su, B.D. Li, R.D. Hool, A.J. Muhowski, M. Kim, D. Wasserman, J. Dallesasse, M. L. Lee (2021). "Low-threshold InP quantum dot and InGaP quantum well visible lasers on silicon (001)," Optica 8 (11), 1495-1500

Teaching Honors

• List of Teachers Ranked as Excellent by Their Students, ECE 444 IC Device Theory & Fabrication (Spring 2020, Spring 2021, Spring 2022)
• Engineering Council Outstanding Advisors List (Spring 2019)
• List of Teachers Ranked as Excellent by Their Students, ECE 329 Fields & Waves I (Spring 2017)
• Ackerman Award for Teaching and Mentoring (Yale) (2015)

Research Honors

• Dean's Award for Excellence in Research, Associate Professor (2021)
• Best student presentation award to advisee Ryan Hool for his talk, “Strategies to reduce threading dislocation density of relaxed n-type GaP on Si,” IEEE Photovoltaic Specialists Conference (2021)
• Best student presentation award to advisee Ryan Hool for his talk, "Electron irradiation study of metamorphic 1.7 eV GaAsP solar cells," IEEE Photovoltaic Specialists Conference (2020)
• Best student presentation award to advisee Pankul Dhingra for his talk, "InP Quantum Dots for Dislocation-tolerant, Visible Light Emitters on Si," North American Conference on Molecular Beam Epitaxy (2019)
• Best poster prize to advisee Yukun Sun for "2.0-2.2 eV AlGaInP solar cells grown by MBE," IEEE Photovoltaic Specialists Conference (2019)
• Best student presentation award to advisee Michelle Vaisman for her talk, "Record-efficiency GaAsP Solar Cells Grown by MBE on GaP/Si," North American Conference on Molecular Beam Epitaxy (2016)
• IBM Faculty Award (2016)
• Best student presentation award to advisee Joseph Faucher for his talk, "Initiation strategies for simultaneous control of antiphase domains and stacking faults in GaAs solar cells on Ge," North American Conference on Molecular Beam Epitaxy (2015)
• Best student presentation award to advisee Kevin Nay Yaung for his talk, "Towards high efficiency GaAsP solar cells on (001) GaP/Si," IEEE Photovoltaic Specialists Conference (2014)
• Best student presentation award to advisee Stephanie Tomasulo for her talk, "2.2 eV InGaP solar cells on GaP substrates," IEEE Photovoltaic Specialists Conference (2013)
• Best poster prize to advisee Jordan Lang for "GaAsP solar cells grown on GaP/Si by molecular beam epitaxy," IEEE Photovoltaic Specialists Conference (2013)
• Young Investigator Award, North American conference on Molecular Beam Epitaxy (2012)
• Best oral presentation award to advisee Joseph Faucher for his talk, "GaAsP solar cells on SiGe/Si virtual substrates with high open-circuit voltage," Materials Research Society Fall meeting (2012)
• Best student presentation to advisee Christopher Yerino for his talk, "Tensile strained III-V quantum dots on a (110) surface," Electronic Materials Conference (2012)
• Lange Lecturer in Materials (UCSB) (2012)
• DARPA Young Faculty Award (2011)
• Best student poster award to advisee Stephanie Tomasulo, "2.0 eV metamorphic InGaP solar cells grown by molecular beam epitaxy," North American Conference on Molecular Beam Epitaxy (2010)
• NSF CAREER Award (2010)
• George E. Smith Best Paper Award, IEEE Electron Device Society (2005)
• Gold Award Winner, MRS Spring Meeting (2003)