• 2/13/2013: Congratulations to Dr. Davis Darvish on his successful thesis defense!
  • 2/13/2013: Congratulations to Dr. Michael Deceglie on his successful thesis defense! We wish him well as he starts his new position at NREL!
  • 12/11/2012: Congratulations to Dr. Andrew Leenheer on his successful defense!
  • 12/3/2012: Congratulations to Dr. Min Seok Jang on his successful thesis defense! We wish him the best of luck at Seoul National University.
  • 6/20/2012: The Light-Material Interactions in Energy Conversion EFRC and the Resnick Sustainability Institute are offering a one-day workshop focused on new materials and processes for overcoming the Shockley-Queisser limit of solar energy conversion efficiency. The workshop will be held on Sunday, July 29th at Caltech.
  • 5/17/2012: Congratulations to Dr. Harry Atwater and Dr. Albert Polman for receiving the 2012 Eni Award in "Renewable, Non-conventional Energy" for their outstanding contribution to solar energy technology by creating highly efficient, ultra-thin solar cells at reduced construction costs! Learn More Here!
  • 2/21/2012: New paper in Nature Materials maps the path forward for ultrahigh efficiency photovoltaics!
  • 2/15/2012: Congratulations to Dr. Krista Langeland on her successful thesis defense!
  • 1/12/2012: Paper on light trapping beyond the ray optic limit is out! It's described here at Nature.com
  • 1/12/2012: Jonathan Grandidier wins the SPIE Photonics West Green Photonics Award 2012!
  • 11/2/2011: Koray Aydin's work on ultrathin broadband plasmonic super absorbers is published in Nature Communications and is also reported in Technology Review!
  • 9/30/2011: Congratulations to Dr. Gerald Miller on his successful thesis defense!
  • 9/30/2011: Congratulations to Dr. Greg Kimball on his successful thesis defense!
  • 8/10/2011: Congratulations to Andrew and Becky Leenheer on the birth of their son!
  • 8/10/2011: Congratulations to the A-team on their historic softball championship win!
  • 6/8/2011: Congratulations to Dr. Imogen Pryce on her successful thesis defense!
  • 6/1/2011: Congratulations to Dr. Vivian Ferry on her successful thesis defense!
  • 6/1/2011: Congratulations to Dr. Ryan Briggs on his successful thesis defense!
  • 6/1/2011: Congratulations to Vivian Ferry and Imogen Pryce on both receiving the MRS 2011 Gold Student Award!
  • 5/31/2011: Professor Atwater was interviewed on MSNBC's "The Dylan Ratigan Show"
  • 4/26/2011: The Light-Material Interactions in Energy Conversion EFRC's video was selected as one of five winners of the Life at the Frontiers of Energy Research video contest! Watch on YouTube.
  • 4/25/2011: Congratulations to Kate Fountaine, 2011 NSF Graduate Research Fellowship winner!
  • 4/25/2011: Congratulations to Carissa Eisler, 2011 NDSEG Fellowship winner!
  • 4/25/2011: Harry A. Atwater, Jr., Howard Hughes Professor and Professor of Applied Physics and Materials Science; and Director of Resnick Institute, has been elected a 2011 Materials Research Society (MRS) Fellow. The title of MRS Fellow honors those MRS members who are notable for their distinguished research accomplishments and their outstanding contributions to the advancement of materials research, world-wide.
  • 2/7/2011: Professors Atwater and Lewis were interviewed by the LA Times about the Joint Center for Artificial Photosynthesis, which was referenced by President Obama in his State of the Union address!
  • 2/2/2011: Professor Atwater and Alexandra Boltasseva describe approaches to achieving Low-Loss Plasmonic Metamaterials in their January 21st Science perspectives article.
  • 1/27/2011: Professor Atwater was interviewed on KFI's "The Bill Carroll Show," the #1 rated midday news talk show in Southern California.
  • 1/7/2011: High-performance silicon microwire photovoltaics published in Energy & Environmental Science
  • 11/2/2010: A-Team wins Popular Mechanics 2010 Breakthrough Innovation Award for Si Wire Solar Cells.
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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.