Atwater Research Group

Our recent work on electro-optic polarization conversion with black phosphorus based van der Waals heterostructures is out now in Science (2021). Associated Caltech press release can be found here.

Congratulations Prachi on winning the Facebook Fellowship Award 2021 under the category of AR/VR Optics and Photonics. https://research.fb.com/blog/2021/04/announcing-the-recipients-of-the-2021-facebook-fellowship-awards/  

Congratulations to Joeson Wong for winning an MRS Graduate Student Gold Award for the 2021 Materials Research Society Graduate Student Award competition! https://www.mrs.org/meetings-events/spring-meetings-exhibits/2021-mrs-spring-meeting/activities-events/awards/graduate-student-awards

Kudos to Komron Shayegan, recipient of the 2021 National Science Foundation graduate research fellowship! https://www.research.gov/grfp/AwardeeList.do

New Caltech project to efficiently capture carbon dioxide from ocean water. Details are available at the ARPA-E Blog link here, see Direct Removal of Carbon Dioxide from Oceanwater.

The Liquid Sunlight Alliance was founded in 2020, and is directed by Professor Harry Atwater. It is one of two projects in the Fuels from Sunlight Energy Innovation Hub funded by the U.S. Department of Energy, Office of Science, Basic Energy Sciences. The vision is to establish the science principles by which coupled microenvironments directly […]