Atwater Research Group

Cora Went, Joeson Wong and Artur Davoyan designed the cover for the October 2018 volume of Nature Materials, which features the A-team publication, “Materials challenges for the Starshot lightsail.”

On June 28, Caltech’s ETC Solar team won first prize among 23 national competitors at the 2018 National Cleantech University Prize in Houston Texas. Read the full report here.

The California Institute of Technology officially conferred the degree of Doctor of Philosophy upon Atwater alumnae Siying Peng (Physics), Michelle Sherrott (Materials Science) and Georgia Papadakis (Applied Physics) at Caltech’s 124th commencement ceremony, held on Beckman Mall, June 15, 2018.

Atwater graduate student Cora Went was named a Thomas Tombrello Scholar and will be honored alongside other awardees at the Physics Year-End Celebration and Awards Banquet on May 31. Prof Tombrello was a Robert H. Goddard Professor of Physics and the Physics, Math and Astronomy Division Chair before he passed in 2014. The Thomas Tombrello Scholar […]

The FLOW DOE Cleantech competition serves as a regional gateway for entry into the DOE’s Cleantech national competition. ETC Solar (comprised of Thomas Russell, Staff Researcher in the Atwater group and Rebecca Saive, Assistant Professor at the University of Twente, the Netherlands, and former Atwater postdoc and senior research scientist) was awarded the DOE grand prize of $50K […]

Michelle Sherrott was a Gold Winner at the 2017 fall MRS meeting in Boston. A list of winners can be found here.