Caltech professors Harry Atwater, Mark Davis, and Ali Hajimiri have been named as fellows of the National Academy of Inventors (NAI). According to the NAI press release, fellows are “academic inventors who have demonstrated a prolific spirit of innovation in creating or facilitating outstanding inventions that have made a tangible impact on quality of life, […]
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Dr. Hal Emmer
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Read MoreSiying Peng Wins NKT Photonics Student Award
Congratulations to Siying Peng for winning the Student Award for Symposium HH “Optical Metamaterials – From New Plasmonic Materials to Metasurface Devices” at the 2015 Fall Materials Research Society Meeting!
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Congratulations to Dr. Matt Shaner on his successful thesis defense!
Read MoreHarry Atwater Will Be On Live Twitter Chat
Harry will be participating in a live Twitter debate on Thursday, November 19th, @ 7 am. It is part of Reuter’s coverage of the COP21 Sustainable Innovation Forum in Paris (http://www.cop21paris.org/) that is taking place on Dec 7-8. The Twitter debate is centered around: “Who are the people who will pull our planet from the […]
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Read MoreSolving the World’s Greatest Sustainability Challenges
Caltech’s Resnick Sustainability Institute focuses on developing solutions to the world’s most important sustainability challenges across research, education and communication. See video here.
Read MoreHarry Atwater Receives APS David Adler Lectureship Award
Harry A. Atwater, Jr., Howard Hughes Professor of Applied Physics and Materials Science as well as the Director of the Joint Center for Artificial Photosynthesis, has been awarded the 2016 David Adler Lectureship Award in the Field of Materials Physics by the American Physical Society. The Award recognizes “an outstanding contributor to the field of […]
Read MoreHarry Atwater named as 2015 Thomson Reuters Highly Cited Researcher
Highly Cited Researchers 2015 represents some of world’s most influential scientific minds. About three thousand researchers earned this distinction by writing the greatest number of reports officially designated by Essential Science Indicators as Highly Cited Papers — ranking among the top 1% most cited for their subject field and year of publication, earning them the […]
Read MoreAtwater Group Receives Funding From DOE’s Clean Energy Summit
Today in Las Vegas, President Obama and Energy Secretary Moniz announced at the Clean Energy Summit $24 million in innovation funding of 11 new solar technologies, including the Caltech-led team project, as part of ARPA-E’s newest program, MOSAIC (short for Micro-scale Optimized Solar-cell Arrays with Integrated Concentration). The Caltech-led team seeks to develop a new […]
Read MoreHarry Atwater Interview on KPCC’s Take Two
Prof. Atwater is speaking on KPCC’s Take Two program tomorrow morning (August 25th) at 9am PDT. Listen in on the radio or online at scpr.org
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Congratulations to Naomi Coronel on her successful thesis defense!
Read MoreDr. Katherine Fountaine
Congratulations to Dr. Katherine (Kate) Fountaine on her successful thesis defense!
Read MoreDr. Prineha Narang
Congratulations to Dr. Prineha Narang on her successful thesis defense!
Read MoreHarry Atwater featured in KPCC Article
KPCC recently covered Governor Jerry Brown’s executive order to drastically reduce California’s greenhouse gas emissions. The order states that California must shrink its heat-trapping pollution levels to 40% below what the state reported in 1990 by the year 2030. Professor Atwater commented on the work that scientists at the Joint Center for Artificial Photosynthesis are doing to discover breakthrough technologies in […]
Read MoreHarry Atwater Speaks on KNX 1070 Radio
Professor Atwater joined KNX 1070 News Radio this morning to speak about JCAP’s recent 5-year, $75 million renewal grant from the Department of Energy. He overviewed how JCAP scientists are developing artificial photosynthesis techniques to create solar fuels for future energy use. Hear the interview now! KNX 1070 News Radio (click the space to the left […]
Read MoreJCAP RECEIVES $75M from DOE
The Department of Energy issued a press release today detailing its official $75 million renewal for the Joint Center for Artificial Photosynthesis over the next five years. As quoted in the press statement, Under Secretary for Science and Energy Lynn Orr, remarked, “JCAP’s work to produce fuels from sunlight and carbon dioxide holds the promise of a potentially […]
Read MoreCaltech Receives Northrop Grumman $17.5M Grant
Northrop Grumman recently signed a 3-year, $17.5 million sponsored research agreement with Caltech for the Space Solar Power Initiative (SSPI) project. Professors Harry Atwater, Sergio Pellegrino, and Ali Hajimiri serve as the project’s three principal investigators and plan to build out a team of 50 researchers. The SSPI project aims to solve the renewable energy challenge by producing a […]
Read MoreHarry Atwater and the Resnick Sustainability Institute featured on Altenergymag.com
Professor Atwater discusses the mainstream adoption of solar energy, its existing hurdles, and how the Resnick Sustainability Institute is bridging the gap between renewable energy research and industry implementation. Read the article here.
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