Professor Harry Atwater has been awarded the 2021 Von Hippel Award. The Von Hippel Award, the Materials Research Society’s highest honor, recognizes those qualities most prized by materials scientists and engineers—brilliance and originality of intellect, combined with vision that transcends the boundaries of conventional scientific disciplines.
Read MoreOur recent work on electro-optic polarization conversion with black phosphorus based van der Waals heterostructures is out now in Science (2021). Associated Caltech press release can be found here.
Read MoreCongratulations Prachi on winning the Facebook Fellowship Award 2021 under the category of AR/VR Optics and Photonics. https://research.fb.com/blog/2021/04/announcing-the-recipients-of-the-2021-facebook-fellowship-awards/
Read MoreCongratulations to Joeson Wong for winning an MRS Graduate Student Gold Award for the 2021 Materials Research Society Graduate Student Award competition! https://www.mrs.org/meetings-events/spring-meetings-exhibits/2021-mrs-spring-meeting/activities-events/awards/graduate-student-awards
Read MoreKudos to Komron Shayegan, recipient of the 2021 National Science Foundation graduate research fellowship! https://www.research.gov/grfp/AwardeeList.do
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