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Howard Hughes Professor/Professor of Applied Physics/Materials Science/California Institute of Technology
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About Harry Atwater
- Harry A.
- Atwater, Jr.
- is a Howard Hughes Professor and Professor of Applied Physics and Materials Science at the California Institute of Technology.
- Since 2014 he is the editor-in-chief of the journal ACS Photonics, published by the American Chemical Society.His research interests center around two interwoven research themes: photovoltaics and solar energy; and plasmonics and optical metamaterials.
- Atwater and his group have been active in photovoltaics research for more than 20 years.
- They have created new photovoltaic devices, including the silicon wire array solar cell, and layer-transferred fabrication approaches to III-V semiconductor III-V and multijunction cells, as well as making advances in plasmonic light absorber structures for III-V compound and silicon thin films.
- His research group’s developments in the solar and plasmonics field have been featured in Scientific American and in research papers in Science, Nature Materials, Nature Photonics and Advanced Materials. Atwater received his S.B.
- (1981), S.M.
- (1983), and Ph.D.
- (1987) in Electrical Engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
- He serves as Director of the DOE Energy Frontier Research Center on Light-Material Interactions in Solar Energy Conversion and was named Director of the Resnick Institute for Science, Energy and Sustainability, Caltech’s largest endowed research program focused on energy.
- Atwater is founder and chief technical advisor for Alta Devices, a venture-backed company in Santa Clara, CA developing a transformational high efficiency/low cost photovoltaics technology, and Aonex Corporation, a compound semiconductor materials company.
- He has also served an editorial board member for Surface Review and Letters.
- Professor Atwater has actively served the materials community in various capacities, including Materials Research Society Meeting Chair (1997), Materials Research Society President (2000), AVS Electronic Materials and Processing Division Chair (1999), and Board of Trustees of the Gordon Research Conferences.
- In 2008, he served as Chair for the Gordon Research Conference on Plasmonics. Atwater is an MRS Fellow and has been honored by awards including the 2012 ENI award for Renewable and Non-Conventional Energy; MRS Kavli Lecturer in Nanoscience in 2010; Popular Mechanics Breakthrough Award, 2010; Joop Los Fellowship from the Dutch Society for Fundamental Research on Matter in 2005, A.T.
- & T.
- Foundation Award, 1990; NSF Presidential Young Investigator Award, 1989; IBM Faculty Development Award, 1989-1990; Member, Bohmische Physical Society, 1990; IBM Postdoctoral Fellowship, 1987.
