Atwater Research Group

Congratulations to Kelly Mauser for winning the Gold Award at the 2018 Fall MRS in Boston! Read more details here.

Atwater alumni Victor Brar and Prineha Narang were among five individuals to be named 2018 Moore Inventor Fellows. Read more at this link.

Thomas Russell has been named to Forbes’ 30 under 30 in Energy for his work as CEO and co-founder of ETC Solar. Read more about Thomas here, and see the full list of awardees at this link.

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.”

A-Team grad student Ghazaleh Kafaie Shirmanesh was recognized for her paper, “Reconfigurable beam steering metasurface at telecommunication wavelengths,” which proposes an active metasurface with a record-high phase shift that can be employed in beam steering metasurfaces in NIR regime.

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.