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LMI Director Harry Atwater and LMI Collaborator Albert Polman are awarded the Eni Award in Renewable and Nonconventional Energy
Harry A. Atwater, Jr., Howard Hughes Professor and Professor of Applied Physics and Materials Science at Caltech as well as Director of the LMI-EFRC and of the Resnick Institute, and LMI international collaborator Albert Polman of the Dutch Research Institute AMOLF have been awarded the 2012 Eni Award in Renewable and Nonconventional Energy. The prize-giving ceremony took place on Friday, June 15, 2012 in the Salone delle Feste del Quirinale, in the presence of Italian President Giorgio Napolitano, the Chairman of Eni Giuseppe Recchi and the CEO of Eni Paolo Scaroni. Congratulations to Prof. Atwater and Prof. Polman on receiving this prestigious recognition of their research on high-efficiency solar cells based on nanophotonic design!
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