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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Congratulations to Dr. Hal Emmer on his successful thesis defense!
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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!
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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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Congratulations to Dr. Carissa Eisler on her successful thesis defense!
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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.
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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 […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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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 Dr. Chris Chen on his successful thesis defense!
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Congratulations to Naomi Coronel on her successful thesis defense!
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Congratulations to Dr. Katherine (Kate) Fountaine on her successful thesis defense!
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Congratulations to Dr. Prineha Narang on her successful thesis defense!
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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 […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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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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