| Name | Graduation Year | Thesis Subject | Affiliation |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jeffrey Horowitz | 2025 | Patterning of organics and metal oxides | ASM |
| Claire Arneson | 2025 | Controlling Photons in Organic Light Emitting Diodes | Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy (ARPA-E) |
| Hafiz Sheriff, Jr. | 2025 | Semitransparent OPVs and reliability | NEXT Energy |
| Haonan Zhao | 2025 | Light-matter interactions in organics and low-dimensional materials | Apple |
| Xinjing Huang | 2023 | Ternary organic photovoltaics | Applied Materials |
| Boning Qu | 2023 | Roll-to-roll vapor deposition | Applied Materials |
| Jihun Lim | 2023 | Air-bridge photovoltaic devices | Jeonbuk National U. |
| Byungjun Lee | 2021 | Thin-film III-V optoelectronics | Apple |
| Kan Ding | 2021 | Understanding degradation of OPVs | Apple |
| Jongchan Kim | 2021 | Controlling organic-film morphology | Yonsei University |
| Dejiu Fan | 2020 | Semiconductor devices on unusual substrates | Applied Materials |
| Yue Qu | 2020 | Cavity Optics in Organic Semiconductors | Apple |
| Caleb Coburn | 2019 | Exciton and charge dynamics in organics | Apple |
| Xiao Liu | 2019 | Organic and hybrid heterojunctions | Apple |
| Quinn Burlingame | 2018 | Reliability of Organic Photovoltaics | Princeton University |
| Xiaozhou Che | 2018 | High-efficiency multijunction OPVs | Applied Materials |
| Anurag Panda | 2017 | Organic-Inorganic Heterojunctions | Harvard University |
| Jaesang Lee | 2017 | Reliability of blue PHOLEDs | Seoul National University |
| Xin Xiao | 2015 | Organic photovoltaics using mixed regions | |
| Kevin Bergemann | 2015 | Energy and charge transport in organics | Amazon Robotics |
| 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 |
| C. Kyle Renshaw | 2013 | Organic/Inorganic hybrid heterojunctions | University of Florida, CREOL |
| Brian Lassiter | 2013 | High-efficiency tandem OPVs | Tandem Diabetes Care |
| Gregory McGraw | 2012 | Organic Vapor Jet Printing | Universal Display Corp. |
| Guodan Wei | 2012 | Squaraine Organic Photovoltaic Cells | Tsinghua University |
| Xiangfei Qi | 2011 | High intensity white OLEDs | Capital One |
| Xuhuai Zhang | 2011 | Optical metamaterials | McKinsey, Inc. |
| Kuen-Ting Shiu | 2010 | InP for PICs and solar cells | Sterne Kessler |
| Richard Lunt | 2010 | Growth of crystalline organic thin films | Michigan State University |
| Stephane Kena-Cohen | 2010 | Microcavity polaritons and polariton lasers | Ecole Polytechnique |
| Xin Xu | 2010 | Hemispherical focal plane arrays and imagers | |
| Noel C. Giebink | 2009 | Organic lasers and OLED lifetime | University of Michigan |
| Yiru Sun | 2008 | Ultrahigh efficiency white OLEDs | NY Life Insurance |
| Fan Yang | 2008 | Nanocrystalline organic solar cells | Zoox |
| Shashank Agashe | 2006 | Integrated optical multiplexers | Infinera, Corp. |
| Barry Rand | 2006 | Fundamentals and Applications of Organic Solar Cells | Princeton University |
| Russell Holmes | 2006 | Organic electroluminescence | University of Minnesota |
| Shubhashish Datta | 2005 | RF Analog Optical Heterodyne Links | Discovery Semicond. |
| 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 Corp. |
| 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 | Thor Labs, Inc. |
| 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 | |
| Gong Gu | 1999 | Multicolor Organic LEDs | University of Tennessee |
| Vladimir Bulovic | 1998 | Organic Light Emitters | MIT |
| Zilan Shen | 1998 | Theory of organic excited states | Guy Carpenter & Co. |
| 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 | LG Tech Ventures |
| Ligeng Xu | 1996 | Integrated Lasers and Phased Array Radar | Coherent |
| Kian Beyzavi | 1995 | Smart Pixels | Kbeyzavi & Assoc. |
| 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. |
| James Gardner | 1992 | Integrated Smart Pixels | Good Karma Bikes |
| Yue Liu | 1992 | Long Wavelength Photodetectors for Optical Communications | Honeywell Res. 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 Corp. |
| Chia Di Lee | 1990 | Deep Levels in InGaAs and Related Materials, Liquid Phase Epitaxy | China Resources Microelectronics, HK |
| 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.
