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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December 16, 2015
National Academy of Inventors Names Three Caltech Fellows
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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October 27, 2015
Solving 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.
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September 21, 2015
Harry 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 […]
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August 24, 2015
Atwater 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 […]
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May 19, 2015
Dr. Katherine Fountaine
Congratulations to Dr. Katherine (Kate) Fountaine on her successful thesis defense!
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May 18, 2015
Dr. Prineha Narang
Congratulations to Dr. Prineha Narang on her successful thesis defense!
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April 28, 2015
JCAP 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 […]
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April 21, 2015
Caltech 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 […]
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