Prof Harry Atwater is one of 88 SPIE members selected to become Fellows of SPIE in 2019. This honor will be celebrated on February 4, 2019 at a luncheon at Photonics West in San Francisco. You can read more here.
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Kelly Mauser wins Gold Award at Fall MRS in Boston
Congratulations to Kelly Mauser for winning the Gold Award at the 2018 Fall MRS in Boston! Read more details here.
Read MoreAtwater Alumni named 2018 Moore Inventor Fellows
Atwater alumni Victor Brar and Prineha Narang were among five individuals to be named 2018 Moore Inventor Fellows. Read more at this link.
Read MoreCongratulations to Thomas Russell of Caltech and ETC Solar who has been named to Forbes 30 under 30 in Energy!
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.
Read MoreA-Team lightsail research featured in Nature Materials cover article
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.”
Read MoreGhazaleh Kafaie Shirmanesh wins best paper award at 2018 SPIE Optics and Photonics meeting in San Diego
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.
Read MoreA-Team’s very own ETC Solar Wins 2018 National DOE Cleantech University Prize Competition!
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.
Read MoreA-Team publishes record-setting >19% efficiency water splitting photoelectrochemical results
Sophia Cheng, et. al.’s paper, “Monolithic photoelectrochemical device for direct water splitting with 19% efficiency” was published in ACS Energy Letters, detailing this record-setting water splitting photoelectrochemical device. Find the full publication here.
Read MoreSiying Peng, Michelle Sherrott and Georgia Papadakis participate in 2018 commencement
The California Institute of Technology officially conferred the degree of Doctor of Philosophy upon Atwater alumnae Siying Peng (Physics), Michelle Sherrott (Materials Science) and Georgia Papadakis (Applied Physics) at Caltech’s 124th commencement ceremony, held on Beckman Mall, June 15, 2018.
Read MoreCora Went named Thomas Tombrello Scholar
Atwater graduate student Cora Went was named a Thomas Tombrello Scholar and will be honored alongside other awardees at the Physics Year-End Celebration and Awards Banquet on May 31. Prof Tombrello was a Robert H. Goddard Professor of Physics and the Physics, Math and Astronomy Division Chair before he passed in 2014. The Thomas Tombrello Scholar […]
Read MoreETC Solar wins grand prize for the FLOW DOE Cleantech business plan competition and DOD award
The FLOW DOE Cleantech competition serves as a regional gateway for entry into the DOE’s Cleantech national competition. ETC Solar (comprised of Thomas Russell, Staff Researcher in the Atwater group and Rebecca Saive, Assistant Professor at the University of Twente, the Netherlands, and former Atwater postdoc and senior research scientist) was awarded the DOE grand prize of $50K […]
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