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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On Tuesday, March 10th, Professor Atwater spoke at the Crawford Family Forum event, “NEXT: Solar Power – Energy of the Future?” with host, Mat Kaplan. Dr. Atwater served on a panel of solar energy experts alongside Paul Basore, Director of the Materials Applications and Performance Center at the National Renewable Energy Laboratory, and J.R. DeShazo, […]
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TIME Magazine published an article in its March 2015 edition featuring quotes from Professor Atwater. The article, “A Burst of Energy: Inside the World’s Largest Solar Power Plant”, discusses the future of utility-scale solar power plants in America. Anyone with an online subscription to TIME Magazine can read the article by Josh Sanborn now.
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Professor Kylie Catchpole from ANU is joining the Atwater Group during her sabbatical. Welcome to our group!
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Congratulations to Chris Chen on receiving the “Best Student Talk” award at the Southern California Society for Microscopy and Microanalysis 2015 Meeting for his presentation on “Heteroepitaxial growth of GaP on Si (001) and Si (112) for photovoltaic applications.”
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Professor Atwater is one of only 67 engineers elected into the National Academy of Engineering (NAE) for 2015. This honor is given to individuals who “have made outstanding contributions to ‘engineering research, practice, or education, including, where appropriate, significant contributions to the engineering literature,’ and to the ‘pioneering of new and developing fields of technology, […]
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January’s issue of Nature Nanotechnology featured Stan Burgos and Sozo Yokogawa’s research on plasmonic color filters and CMOS imaging. As mentioned in the article, “Colouring at the Nanoscale” by Nicky Dean, plasmonic color pixels offer a solution for creating high resolution displays as pixel sizes are diminishing and screen sizes are expanding. Read the article […]
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President Barack Obama mentioned Caltech’s Joint Center for Artificial Photosynthesis in his sixth State of the Union address! See it here (starts at 30:15).
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Congratulations to Siying Peng, who was awarded with the the John Stager Stemple Memorial Prize! Each year one Caltech Physics graduate student is recognized for his/her outstanding progress in research as well as his/her excellent performance on the Oral Candidacy Exam.
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Congratulations to Dr. Samantha Wilson on her successful thesis defense!
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