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.
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June 25, 2018
A-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.
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June 15, 2018
Siying 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.
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May 30, 2018
Cora 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 […]
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May 29, 2018
ETC 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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December 1, 2017
Michelle Sherrott wins Gold Award at Fall MRS in Boston
Michelle Sherrott was a Gold Winner at the 2017 fall MRS meeting in Boston. A list of winners can be found here.
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November 30, 2017
Postdoc Deep Jariwala and PhD graduate Prineha Narang both named to the 2018 Forbes “30 under 30” list of scientists
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
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November 30, 2017
A-team researchers head for the academy
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 […]
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November 30, 2017
Harry Atwater named a 2017 Highly Cited Researcher
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/
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November 30, 2017
Wen Hui “Sophia” Cheng wins Grand Prize 2017 Sustainability Innovation Student Challenge Award
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
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June 30, 2017
Kelly Mauser’s Paper Appears in Nature Nanotechnology and on Caltech’s Website
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.
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June 13, 2017
Dr. Siying Peng
Congratulations to Dr. Siying Peng on her successful thesis defense!
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May 19, 2017
A-Team Is Visited By Polman Group
The Polman group visits A Team on Monday May 15 for a rousing workshop and dinner!
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May 9, 2017
Dr. Erik Verlage
Congratulations to Dr. Erik Verlage on his successful thesis defense!
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May 8, 2017
Dr. John Lloyd
Congratulations to Dr. John Lloyd on his successful thesis defense!
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May 2, 2017
Ghazaleh wins NKT Photonics Student Award at the Spring 2017 MRS Meeting!
Congrats Ghazaleh on your award!
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April 25, 2017
The Advanced Light Source Profiles Will and Michelle’s Research on Black Phosphorus
Read about it here.
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March 23, 2017
The promise of 2D tunable materials
See: http://spie.org/newsroom/atwater-harry-graphene-photonics-west-2017
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February 28, 2017
Georgia Papadakis Placed 1st in Best Student Paper Competition at the Metamaterials’ 2016 International Conference
Congratulations to Georgia Papadakis for placing 1st in the Student Paper Competition at the Metamaterials’ 2016 International Conference. See here.
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January 31, 2017
Dr. Raymond Weitekamp Made Forbes 30 Under 30 List For Energy
Weitekamp founded polySpectra based on his PhD work at Caltech investigating new ways of fabricating materials called “functional lithography.” His startup is working to reduce the amount of energy lost through windows. Get the full profile on Raymond here. To see the full list, go here.
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