Congratulations to Joe and Beth for their paper in NanoLetters, where they image the time-dynamics of the open-circuit voltage of perovskite solar cells with nanoscale resolution. This work was a collaboration between our group, the Leite group, and the Huang group.

Update: Paper was promoted by the Clark School in a press release and picked up by Phys.org .

Dakang’s work on electrically switchable solar sails is featured on the front cover of Advanced Optical Materials – Congratulations! The work was also highlighted in Advanced Science News in an article entitled “Travelling through Space with Solar Sails” and on the UMD ECE website.

Congratulations to Joe Murray, whose work is featured on the first issue of ACS Photonics of 2017!

Thanks to Peter and Naomi for the invitation and for putting together excellent sessions at the 2017 Winter Colloquium on the Physics of Quantum Electronics – PQE.

Congratulations to Dr. Ma, who successfully defended his thesis entitled, “Measurement of radiation pressure and tailored momentum transfer through switchable photonic devices.”

Jeremy presents an invited talk at the 2016 International Semiconductor Device Research Symposium (ISDRS), which focuses on exploratory research in electronic and photonic materials and devices.

Prof. Munday gives a presentation entitled, “Tunable photonic elements for solar energy” at the Fall meeting of the Materials Research Society fall meeting in Boston, MA. The talk was part of Symposium Symposium NM4: Nanomaterials-Based Solar Energy Conversion and described the lab’s recent work on switchable materials for smart windows, solar sails, and tunable photon recycling.

Joe Murray’s work on  solar smart windows that can power themselves is published online in ACS Photonics and is featured in the ACS pressroom. Accompanying video shows device operation. Great job!

December update: Work was also picked up by Chemical and Engineering News.

Jeremy gives an invited talk at the Southwest Regional Meeting of the American Chemical Society (ACS) in Galveston, TX. Thanks to Isabell Thomann for the invitation!

The Oct 28th cover of the Journal of Applied Physics features Joe Murray’s work on a generalized approached to calculating scattering and absorption solar cells. The image is a true-color photograph take from his experimental setup that shows the specular and diffuse components of reflectivity inside a material upon reflection from random nanoscale dielectric scatterers. The wavelength dependence of the scattering is used to model the absorption within multilayer stacks. Great job, Joe!

The Oct. 12 issue of ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces features our group’s work on microresonator coatings for PV on the front cover. A news story also appears on the UMD ECEwebsite and was issued a press release. Great job everyone!

Jeremy presented a talk entitled “Green Solutions for Next Generation Photovoltaics: Using Wood, Glass, and Aluminum” for the session “Photovoltaics for the 21st century” at the PRiME, ECS (electrochemical society) meeting. Thanks to Jung-Yong Lee for organizing the session!

Thanks to Wilson Ho and everyone at CaSTL (Center for Chemistry at the Space-Time Limit) for a great visit!

Prof. Munday attends the Frontiers of Engineering workshop in Irvine, CA sponsored by the National Academy of Engineering.

Congratulations to the latest doctor, Dr. Xu!