• 01/18/09: Professor Atwater is interviewed on CNN Local Edition News. Watch.
  • 11/21/08: Students from the Atwater Group help install a solar panel array on the roof of Watson. Read article.
  • 07/16/08: The Atwater Group welcomes postdoc Koray Aydin!
  • 07/09/08: Congratulations to Andrew Leenheer on his Applied Materials Fellowship Award!
  • 07/09/08: Congratulations to Anna Hiszpanski on her Kavli Nanoscience Insititute Undergraduate Fellowship!
  • 07/09/08: The Atwater Group welcomes Emily Warmann, Dan Turner Evans and Natali Alster!
  • 05/27/08: Melissa Archer wins the 2008 Caltech Demetriades-Tsafka-Kokkalis Prize in Environmentally Benign Renewable Energy Sources for her PhD thesis
  • 05/24/08: Katsu Tanabe wins the Outstanding Student Paper award at the 33rd IEEE Photovoltaics Specialists Conference for his paper on plasmonic solar cells
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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.