Recent Research Highlights
Perovskite Nanowire-Block Copolymer Composites with Digitally Programmable Polarization Anisotropy
(Jennifer Lewis group, Harvard and Paul Alivisatos group, LBL)
February 2018
High-performance Near-Field Electroluminescent Refrigeration Device
(Eli Yablonovitch group, LBL and Shanhui Fan group, Stanford)
December 2017
Semiconductor Solar Thermal Absorber
(Austin Minnich group, Caltech and Shanhui Fan groups, Stanford)
November 2017
Ultra-High Thermal Stability ReNi Inverse Opals
(Paul Braun group, UIUC and Shanhui Fan group, Stanford)
October 2017
Subwavelength Lateral Spectral Splitting
(Mark Brongersma and Shanhui Fan groups, Stanford)
September 2017
Electrochemical Etching of Square Microlenses
(Paul Braun and John Rogers group, UIUC; Mark Brongersma group, Stanford)
May 2017
Broadband and Omnidirectional AR Coatings for CPV
(Harry Atwater and Nat Lewis groups, Caltech & John Rogers and Ralph Nuzzo groups, UIUC)
April 2017
Daytime Radiative Cooling Using Glass Slides
(Austin Minnich group, Caltech and Shanhui Fan group, Stanford)
March 2017
Record efficiency in NIR-to-visible photon upconversion
(Jennifer Dionne group, Stanford and Paul Alivisatos group, LBL)
October 2016
Three-Dimensional Single Gyroid Photonic Crystals With a Mid-Infrared Bandgap
(Harry Atwater group, Caltech and Paul Braun group, UIUC)
September 2016
Laser-Assisted Direct Ink Writing of Metallic Architectures
(Jennifer Lewis group, Harvard)
May 2016
Conformal Flexible Dielectric Metasurfaces
(Andrei Faraon group, Caltech)
April 2016
Active Thermal Extraction of Near-Field Thermal Radiation
(Austin Minnich group, Caltech)
March 2016
Active Mixing of Complex Fluids at the Microscale
(Jennifer Lewis group, Harvard)
December 2015
Luminescent Concentration of Diffuse Light Achieving 30X Concentration
(Paul Alivisatos Group, LBNL and Ralph Nuzzo group, UIUC)
September 2015
Controlling Thermal Emission with Graphene Metasurfaces
(Harry Atwater group, Caltech)
August 2015
Engineering Light Absorption in Semiconductor Metafilms
(Brongersma group, Stanford)
June 2015
First free-standing 2D piezoelectric material experimentally demonstrated with MoS2
(Xiang Zhang group, LBL)
Feb 2015
Near-complete Violation of Detailed Balance
in Thermal Radiation
(Shanhui Fan group, Stanford)
Jan 2015
Higher Maximum Efficiencies for Multijunction Solar Cells Achieved Through Nontraditional Geometries
(Harry Atwater group, Caltech and Xiang Zhang group, LBL)
Dec 2014
Enhanced Photon Recycling in Multijunction Solar Cells
(John Rogers group, UIUC and Eli Yablonovitch group, LBL)
October 2014
Mechanically Stacked Quadruple-Junction Microscale
Solar Cells for High Efficiency Modules
(John Rogers and Ralph Nuzzo Groups, UIUC)
May 2014
High Temperature 3D-Structured Thermophotovoltaic Emitters
(Paul Braun Group, UIUC)
April 2014
Design of 3D Mesostructures via Phototropic Growth (Nate Lewis and Harry Atwater Groups, Caltech)
March 2014
(Paul Alivisatos Group, LBNL and Ralph Nuzzo group, UIUC)
February 2014
Computationally Designing Surface Textures for Ultrathin, Efficient Solar Cells
(Eli Yablonovitch Group, LBNL) October 2013
3D Printing of Li-Ion Microbattery Architectures
(Jennifer Lewis Group, UIUC and Harvard) July 2013
Double Power Output for GaAs Solar Cells Embedded in Luminescent Waveguides
(Ralph Nuzzo and John Rogers Groups, UIUC) April 2013
Enabling New Classes of Templated Materials
Through Mesoporous Carbon Colloidal Crystals
(Paul Braun Group, UIUC) March 2013
Magnetic Alignment of High-Aspect Ratio Microwires into Vertical Arrays
(Nate Lewis Group, Caltech) February 2013
Angle Restriction for High Single Junction Efficiency
(Harry Atwater Group, Caltech and Albert Polman, FOM-AMOLF) January 2013
New Electromagnetic Theory of Ultra-Thin Solar Cells
(Xiang Zhang Group, LBNL) October/November 2012
"Paintable" Polymer Photonic Crystals
(Harry Atwater and Bob Grubbs Groups, Caltech) September 2012
Dielectric Optical Antennas for Solar Absorption Enhancement
(Paul Alivisatos Group, LBNL) July/August 2012
Slap, Stick, & Peel: Soft Triangular Stamps for Nanotexturing
(Ralph Nuzzo and Paul Braun Groups, UIUC & Paul Alivisatos Group, LBNL) June 2012
Planar and 3D Printing of Conductive Inks
(Jennifer Lewis Group, UIUC) May 2012
Photonic design principles for ultrahigh-efficiency photovoltaics
(Harry Atwater, Caltech & Albert Polman, FOM-AMOLF) February 2012
Solar cell light trapping beyond the ray optic limit
(Harry Atwater group, Caltech) December 2011
Light-mediated pattern formation in chalcogenide nanostructures
(Nate Lewis and Harry Atwater groups, Caltech) November 2011
Broadband polarization independent light absorption using ultrathin plasmonic super absorbers
(Harry Atwater group, Caltech) October 2011
Three-dimensionally architectured optoelectronics
(Paul Braun & John Rogers groups, UIUC) September 2011
Photovoltaic performance of ultra-small PbSe quantum dots
(Paul Alivisatos group, LBNL & Harry Atwater group, Caltech) August 2011
Complete theory of down-conversion, and a comparison with carrier multiplication
(Xiang Zhang group, LBNL) July 2011
Transfer of preformed 3D photonoc crystals onto dye sensitized solar cells
(Paul Braun group, UIUC) June 2011
The physics of high-efficiency solar cells
(Eli Yablonovitch group, LBNL) May 2011
Luminescent waveguide concentrator photovoltaics
(John Rogers & Ralph Nuzzo groups, UIUC) April 2011.
Dielectric nanospheres for photovoltaics
(Harry Atwater group, Caltech) March 2011
Transparent conductive oxide microelectrodes
(Jennifer Lewis group, UIUC) February 2011
