Jeremy visits NASA for solar sail demo and presentation
Thanks to Tiffany Russell Lockett and all of the solar sailers for a great visit! Looking forward to seeing the craft in space!
Dan defends Masters Thesis
Congratulations to Dan Goldman, who successfully defended his Masters thesis entitled Design of nanophotonic antireflection coatings for III-V thin-film photovoltaics. Good job, Dan!
Nanotechnology cover features our recent KPFM work
Congratulations to Joe Garrett, whose recent work on a fast, high-resolution KPFM is featured on the cover of Nanotechnology!
Jeremy give ECE Photonics seminar at Rice University
Jeremy delivers ECE Photonics Seminar at Rice University. Thanks to Isabell for organizing the visit – thoroughly enjoyed!
Two recent papers: a new KPFM technique and nanophotonic solar cells
Joe G. recently developed an improved method for nanoscale mapping of the electrostatic surface potential, which was published in Nanotechnology, and Dan published his work on Mie resonant structures on InP solar cells in Optics Express. Congratulations!
Munday Lab welcomes 2 new postdocs
Tarun Narayan joins our group after finishing up at Stanford to help kick off a new project with Joe Murray. Welcome to the team!
Dongheon and Joe M. successfully defend their theses
Congratulations to Dongheon and Joe! Apparently you can have your cake and eat it too!
Jeremy give invited talk at conference in Hong Kong
Jeremy presents the group’s latest work on Casimir forces and torques at the conference on Casimir and van der Waals Physics: Progress and Prospects at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology. Thanks to Ho Bun, Diego, Daniel and George for the invitation!
Taqiyyah receives NDSEG fellowship
Congratulations to Taqiyyah, who was awarded a NDSEG fellowship!
Munday Lab well-represented at APS March Meeting
With the APS March meeting in Baltimore this year, the Munday Lab is out in full force with presentations by nearly all group members. Here’s a brief breakdown of the presentation schedule (in order of appearance):
Monday: Lisa and Tao
Tuesday: Sean and Dakang
Wednesday: Dan, Dongheon, Taqiyyah, Yunlu, and Joe M.
Friday: Joe G. and David
Munday wins ONR YIP Award
Munday is named a 2016 Office of Naval Research (ONR) Young Investigator Program (YIP) recipient. The award will enable Prof. Munday to expand his research in novel optoelectronic materials.
Jeremy delivers seminar on scanning probe research at Rutgers University
Jeremy gives a talk at the Laboratory for Surface Modification (LSM) at Rutgers University. Thanks to Phil Batson for hosting me!
Jeremy gives invited talk at SPIE’s Photonics West
Jeremy gives invited talk on hot carrier effects at Photonics West as part of the session on Physics, Simulation, and Photonic Engineering of Photovoltaic Devices. Many thanks to Alexandre Freundlich and Laurent Lombez for the invitation!
Munday wins NSF CAREER Award
Jeremy wins NSF CAREER award for project integrating research and education with the potential to improve the functionality of plasmonic devices while simultaneously increasing access to alternative energy education.
Jeremy gives CNAM Colloquium on “The Physics and Photonics of Next Generation Solar Cells”
Jeremy gives talk entitled “The Physics and Photonics of Next Generation Solar Cells” for the Center for Nanophysics and Advanced Materials (CNAM) Colloquium. Thanks to Victor Yakovenko and Chris Lobb for hosting me!
Tao’s work highlighted as Top Downloads in Optical Materials Express
Our recent paper “Materials for hot carrier plasmonics [Invited]” is listed in Top Downloads from December 2015 from Optical Materials Express.
New paper on light trapping experiments published
Joe Murray’s paper on experimentally determining internal light scattering and trapping within a material is published in the Journal of Applied Physics. Good job Joe!
Phys Org: Diagnosing better efficiencies for solar cells
Recent collaborative work on nanoscale metrology for solar cells published in Advanced Energy Materials was picked up by phys.org.com.
Collaborations with Leite lab featured on two Covers this week
Our recent work work with the Leite lab was featured on the covers of Advanced Energy Materialsand ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces. The works separately discuss (1) a new method to resolve the open circuit voltage of solar cells on the nanoscale and (2) the stability of Al electrodes for an all-solid-state battery. The papers have also been highlighted online (in UMD Right Now and IREAP). Congratulations to all envolved!
