Joe Garrett receives APS travel award
Congratulations to Joe for receiving the APS Forum on Graduate Student Affairs Travel Award for Excellence in Graduate Research. Great job!
Students receive Goldhaber Travel Awards
Congratulations to Joe Garrett, Dakang Ma, and David Somers who each received the Goldhaber Travel Award to present their works at the 2105 APS March meeting in San Antonio, Texas, and to Yunlu Xu, Tao Gong, Joe Murray, and Dongheon Ha who also received Goldhaber Awards to present their work at the SPIE DSS meeting in Baltimore, MD. Great work!
Jeremy gives invited talk at the EMN Meeting on Photovoltaics
Thanks to Holly Wang, Zhiming Wang,and Wei David Wei for the invitation!
Tao’s hot carrier work published in Nano Letters
Tao’s recent experimental work shows how transparent conducting oxides can be used to effectively collect hot carriers. The work is published in Nano Letters.
Dongheon selected as 2015 Future Faculty Programs Fellow
Congratulation to Dongheon for being selected as a 2015 Future Faculty Programs Fellow. More information about the program can be found here.
Jeremy gives invited talk at OSA Incubator workshop
Jeremy gives an invited talk entitled, “Nanoscale Optics and the Shockley-Queisser Limit” at the OSA Incubator on the Fundamental Limits of Optical Energy Conversion. Thanks to Svetlana, Vivian, Jurgen, Alex, and Jonathan for putting together an excellent workshop!
Prof. Munday receives George Corcoran Award
Prof. Munday is the recipient of the 2013-2014 George Corcoran Memorial Award for faculty. This award is presented to a young Electrical and Computer Engineering faculty member who has shown exemplary contributions to teaching and educational leadership at the University of Maryland.
Jeremy gives invited talk at PIERS
Jeremy gives an invited talk at PIERS in Guangzhou, China entitled “PhotonicArchitectures for Beating Light Trapping and Efficiency Limits in Solar Cells.” Thanks to Chris Giebink for the invitation and excellent session!
New paper featured as inside Cover for Advanced Energy Materials
Dongheon’s recent work using paper-based anti-reflection coatings is published in Advanced Energy Materials and is featured on the inside cover. See press release here. Congratulations, Dongheon!
Carlos Biaou wins Jack Kent Cooke Foundation Graduate Scholarship
Undergraduate researcher Carlos Biaou wins Jack Kent Cooke Foundation Graduate Scholarship. Carlos will begin graduate studies at UC Berkeley in the Fall. Congratulations!
SPIE Newsroom article describes our work
Our work on photonic structuring of solar cells is featured in the SPIE Newsroom. The article describes our recent work on light trapping, anti-reflection coatings, and bandgap modification for solar cells.
David Somers wins IREAP Best Graduate Student Speaker Award
David Somers is the winner of the Best Graduate Student Speaker Award from the IREAP student seminar series for Spring 2014. His talk was entitled “Measuring Casimir Torque with Liquid Crystals.” Congratulations!
Yunlu’s poster receives honorable mention
Yunlu’s poster entitled “Light trapping in a polymer solar cell by tailored quantum dot emission” receives honorable mention at the 2014 UMD Optics Society poster competition. Congratulations!
Nature Photonics article features paper-based anti-reflection coatings
Two recent articles were published describing our collaborative work on paper-based anti-reflection coatings (Nano Letters and Advanced Energy Materials). This work was featured in a news and views article for Nature Photonics.
Jeremy Munday wins SPIE Early Career Achievement Award
Prof. Jeremy Munday is the 2014 recipient of the Early Career Achievement Award in recognition of his “innovative experimental and theoretical work on photonic engineering for solar energy devices and Casimir forces.” More information can be found here.
New papers published in Optics Express and J-PV
Yunlu’s work on quantum dot enhanced polymer solar cells is published in Optics Express. His work on using photonic crystals to effectively modify the bandgap of solar cells is also published in the IEEE Journal of Photovoltaics. Great job!
Jeremy gives an invited talk at the 2013 Fall MRS
Jeremy gives invited presentation at the 2013 Materials Research Society Fall meeting in Boston, MA. Many thanks to Kylie Catchpole, Yi Cui, and Hernán Míguez for an excellent symposium!
Jeremy gives two invited talks at OSA’s Renewable Energy and the Environment conference
Jeremy gives two invited talks at OSA’s Renewable Energy and the Environment conference in Tucson, Arizona. These talks were part of the sections on “Optics for Solar Energy (SOLAR)” and “Optical Nanostructures and Advanced Materials for Photovoltaics (PV).” Thanks to Alan Kost and Alexander Sprafke for the invitations!
Yunlu, Joe, and Jeremy publish chapter in a Springer Book entitled Quantum Dot Solar Cells
A link to the book can be found here.