Dongheon gave two presentations and received a poster award nomination at the 2015 Fall Materials Research Society Conference. Good job!

Our recent paper on the Shockley-Queisser limit for nanostructures was highlighted by Phys.org and the Diamondback.

Yunlu and Tao’s new paper describing the Shockley-Queisser limit for nanostructured solar cells was published in Scientific Reports and is highlighted here. Great job!

Thanks to a grant from the National Science Foundation, the Munday Lab will begin experiments to measure a torque due to quantum fluctuations.

The Munday Lab was selected as one of 8 partnerships funded through NASA’s 2015 Smallsat Technology Program. They will be developing reflective control devices for propellentless attitude control of solar sails.

Taqiyyah is first author of a paper in a special issue of Optics Express on “Control of Radiative Processes for Energy Conversion and Harvesting.” Her paper is entitled, “Improving photovoltaic performance through radiative cooling in both terrestrial and extraterrestrial environments.” Great job, Taqiyyah!

As part of an NSF funded undergraduate research program at the University of Maryland’s Institute for Research in Electronics and Applied Physics, Jeremy presented a seminar describing the importance and excitement of undergraduate research to students participating the the TREND (Training and Research Experiences in Nonlinear Dynamics) program.

Jeremy co-organizes a session on Light Management in Photovoltaics for the IEEE Photovoltaics Specialist Conference in New Orleans. The session was part of Area 1: Fundamentals and New Concepts for Future Technologies. Thanks to Seth for inviting me join the team!

Thanks to Jacob Krich for the invitation and excellent program!

The June 2015 issue of the Journal of Physics: Condensed Matter, is a special issue on Casimir Physics. Joe Garrett’s paper on the use of KPFM to determine artifacts in Casimir force measurements was chosen as an IOP Select article and was also featured on the cover of the issue. Congratulations!

As part of the University of Maryland’s Earth Day Celebration, Jeremy participated in the Clark School’s 2015 Sustainability Workshop on “Engineering Grid Resiliency for a Changing Climate.” Slides from his presentation, entitled “High Efficiency PV for Distributed Generation,” can be found here.

Jeremy delivers an invited presentation at the Spring 2015 meeting of the Materials Research Society. Thanks to Joshua Caldwell, Stephane Larouche, and Gennady Shvets for an excellent symposium.

Congratulations to Lisa Krayer, who is a recipient of the 2015 NSF Graduate Research Fellowship. Over 16,000 applications were received, and Lisa was one of only 12% selected to receive this prestigious award. Congratulations, Lisa!

Jeremy Munday was selected to receive the 2015 OSA Adolph Lomb Medal for “pioneering contributions to plasmonic and photonic light-trapping in solar cells.” The OSA press release can be found here. See also press releases from ECE and IREAP .

Jeremy presented recent work from the group at the 2015 TMS meeting in Orlando, FL. Thanks to Jung-Kun Lee and Behrang Hamadani for the invitation!

Our paper entitled “Silver nanowire transparent conducting paper-based electrode with high optical haze” has been selected as a Most Accessed Article for 2014 and as such it has been included in the Most Accessed Articles 2014 web collection for the Journal which can be viewed here.

Congratulations to Joe Garrett, who was selected for the summer Thomas Mason Interdisciplinary Physics Fellowship to work on a collaboration with the Leite lab. Great job, Joe!

Dakang’s latest experiment measuring the radiation pressure on a micro-cantilever is published in Applied Physics Letters, and Dongheon’s work on paper-based anti-reflection coatings on Si solar cells is published in the IEEE Journal of Photovoltaics. Good work! Papers can be found on the publications page.