Solid State Institute
The Team
Principal Investigator
Yehonadav Bekenstein
Assistant Professor
Academic Education
- Post doc. University of California, Berkeley, 2018.
- Ph.D. – Physics, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, 2015.
- M.Sc. – Physics, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, 2009.
- BSc. – Physics and chemistry (Exact Sciences Program), Hebrew University of Jerusalem, 2007.
Staff
Dr. Rotem Strassberg
Lab Manager
Kobi Cohen
Lab Manager
Avital Marshin Sterlin
Administrative Assistant
PhD Students
Betty Shamaev
Offir Zachs
Emma Massasa
Shai Levy
Rachel Lifer
MSc Students
Sapir Gur
Edi Maizenberg
Emil Braginsky
Dorel Koren
Alumni
Noam Veber
2026, Impact of Defects on the Electro-optical Properties of Vapor-grown Halide Perovskite Single Crystals
Saar Shaek
2026, Controlling the optical and structural characterizations of lead-free halide double perovskites nanoparticles by alloying and doping
Orr Beer
2025, Enhancing scintillator emission through nanoscale material engineering
Pallavi Singh
2024, Investigating stability and optical properties of (MA,AA)PbI3 films in heterostructures to be applied as 2 colour scintillator
Sasha Khalfin
2023, Study of optical activity in lead-free double perovskite nanocrystals
Nathan Rafisiman
2023, Liquid-liquid interface-based thiocyanate surface treatment for bright and stable CsPbBr3 nanocrystals, (Jointly with Lev Chuntonov, Chemistry)
Neta Lahav
2023, Study of Thin Film Photonic X-Rays Scintillators
Alina Nagel
2022, Engineering and Characterizing CsPbBr3 Quantum Dots for Single-Photon Emission Applications, Current employment GE Healthcare
Shaked Dror
2022, Engineering Structure and Stability of Cs2AgBiBr6 Monolayers, Bilayers and Nanoplatelets, Current employment Nova
Amit Vurgaft
2022 ,Inverse size-dependent Stokes shift in strongly quantum confined CsPbBr3 perovskite nanoplates
Eyal Cohen
2021, The Optical and Structural Properties of CsPbBr3 Perovskite and CsPbBr3/Cs4PbBr6 Heterostructures, Current employment KLA Tencor.
Reut Shechter
2021, Synthesis and Characterization of Cesium Lead Bromide Nanoplatelets, Current employment AlphaTau
Michael Svizher
2020, Experimental setup building, Current employment Tower SC