• 06/05/08: Congratulations to Davis Darvish for a successful candidacy exam!
  • 05/27/08: Congratulations to Ryan Briggs for a successful candidacy exam!
  • 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
  • 05/23/08: Congratulations to Dr. Luke Sweatlock on his successful thesis defense!
  • 05/21/08: Congratulations to Dr. Katsu Tanabe on his successful thesis defense!
  • 05/08/08: Congratulations to Dr. Melissa Archer on her successful thesis defense!
  • 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!
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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.