Atwater Research Group

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

The A-team salutes Deep Jariwala and Prineha Narang, both named to the 2018 Forbes “30 under 30” list of scientists: https://www.forbes.com/30-under-30/2018/science/#389f32a93eac

3 present and former A team members are transitioning to new academic faculty positions: Deep Jariwala will start as an Assistant Professor of Electrical Engineering at the University of Pennsylvania, and Rebecca Saive will start as an Assistant Professor of Physics in the University of Twente in the Netherlands, both in January 2018. Prineha Narang […]

Harry Atwater has been named a 2017 Highly Cited Researcher by Web of Science/Clarivate Analytics. This distinction recognizes research that ranks among the top 1% most cited works in a field and during its year of publication, earning the mark of exceptional impact.” See the Web of Science Highly Cited Researchers list here: https://clarivate.com/hcr/2017-researchers-list/

Wen Hui “Sophia” Cheng is the winner, together with Mattias Richter, of the Grand Prize 2017 Sustainability Innovation Student Challenge Award from the Resnick Institute at Caltech. Cheng and Richter are cited for their results leading to record efficiency in hydrogen generation by photoelectrochemical water splitting. See more here: http://resnick.caltech.edu/sisca-winners.php

Kelly’s new paper on resonant thermoelectric nanophotonics appears – see paper in Nature Nanotechnology here: http://www.nature.com/nnano/journal/vaop/ncurrent/full/nnano.2017.87.html and Caltech press release here: http://www.caltech.edu/news/nanostructures-detect-colors-78861.