Kate joined the Atwater Group in July 2010 to pursue her Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering as an NSF Fellow after receiving her B.S. in Chemical Engineering from the University of California, Santa Barbara in June 2010. The main focus of her research is on mesoscale (um-cm) design of photoelectrochemical devices for the efficient production of renewable fuels with the Joint Center for Artificial Photosynthesis (JCAP). She is primarily interested in the remarkable optical phenomena that arise in nanostructured semiconductors and how to best utilize their light trapping properties to maximize device efficiency.
Available Publications
Toward high laser power beam manipulation with nanophotonic materials: evaluating thin film damage performance
T.U. Tumkur, R. Sokhoyan, M.P. Su, A. Ceballos-Sanchez, G. Kafaie Shirmanesh, Y. Kim, H.A. Atwater, E. Feignbaum, and S. Elhadj
Optics Express (2021)
- Nanophotonic Materials and Devices Nanophotonics
Design of efficient radiative emission and daytime cooling structures with Si3N4 and SiO2 nanoparticle laminate films
Parker R. Wray, Magel P. Su, and Harry A. Atwater
Vol. 28, No. 24 / 23 November 2020 / Optics Express 35786 (2021)
- Nanophotonic Materials and Devices Nanophotonics
Array-Level Inverse Design of Beam Steering Active Metasurfaces
Prachi Thureja, Ghazaleh Kafaie Shirmanesh, Katherine T. Fountaine, Ruzan Sokhoyan, Meir Grajower, and Harry A. Atwater
ACS Nano (2020)
- Metasurfaces
High Broadband Light Transmission for Solar Fuels Production Using Dielectric Optical Waveguides in TiO2 Nanocone Arrays
Sisir Yalamanchili, Erik Verlage, Wen-Hui Cheng, Katherine T. Fountaine, Philip R. Jahelka, Paul A. Kempler, Rebecca Saive, Nathan S. Lewis, and Harry A. Atwater
Nano Letters (2020)
- Nanophotonics Photovoltaics
High Broadband Light Transmission for Solar Fuels Production Using Dielectric Optical Waveguides in TiO2 Nanocone Arrays
Sisir Yalamanchili, Erik Verlage, Wen-Hui Cheng, Katherine T. Fountaine, Philip R. Jahelka, Paul A. Kempler, Rebecca Saive, Nathan S. Lewis, and Harry A. Atwater
NANO Letters, Nano Lett. 2020, 20, 502−508 (2020)
- Nanophotonic Materials and Devices Nanophotonics Photovoltaics