• 04/01/08: Congratulations to Stanley Burgos, 2008 NSF Graduate Fellowship recipient!
  • 03/26/08: Nature features wire arrays in solar fuels news article
  • 03/04/08: Congratulations to MRS Student Award Finalists Melissa Archer and Jennifer Dionne!
  • 12/19/07: Nanowire arrays for photovoltaic applications featured in MIT Technology Review
  • 11/30/07: Congratulations to Brendan Kayes on his MRS Graduate Student Award!
  • 11/15/07: Welcome to our new post-doc, Deirdre O'Carroll!
  • 10/12/07: Work on silicon nanowire solar cells highlighted in Science
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Rotating Atwater Images - Hit F5 to change The Atwater research group is engaged in interdisciplinary materials and device research, spanning photonics and electronics and with applications in Si-based photonics, plasmonics, renewable energy and mechanically active thin film devices.

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Device materials research is interdisciplinary, involving challenges in applied physics, physics, materials science, chemistry, electrical and chemical engineering. The members of the Atwater group includes graduate students, research fellows and undergraduates from each of these departments. We also maintain comprehensive experimental facilities for growth, fabrication and analysis.