LMI - Key Persons
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- Director and Scientific Group Leader
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- Assistant Professor of Applied Physics and Material Science
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- Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering
Austin Minnich is an Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering and Applied Physics at the California Institute of Technology. He received his Bachelor's degree from UC Berkeley in Engineering Science in 2006, followed by a Masters and PhD from MIT in Mechanical Engineering in 2011. His thesis focused on creating new tools to measure the microscopic transport properties of phonons in crystals. In particular, he developed a technique that enables the first direct measurements of phonon mean free paths in solids.
After receiving his PhD, Prof Minnich started his position at Caltech in Fall 2011. His group now consists of 7 students and 2 postdocs. The group's research is centered around exploring nanoscale heat transfer by phonons, electrons, and photons using novel experimental and computational methods, with a particular focus on optical methods. In the EFRC, Prof. Minnich's research investigates how nanophotonics may be used to control thermal radiation for solar thermal energy conversion. Prof. Minnich has been recognized for his work with a 2013 NSF CAREER Award.
Azhar Carim is a graduate student in the Lewis group at Caltech. His research focuses on the photoelectrochemical deposition of nanostructured semiconductors wherein the applied electrical waveform and illumination are being studied as means to excercise control over composition, crystallinity and morphology.
Brent Koscher is a graduate student in the Alivisatos Group at UC-Berkeley. He is currently working on quantum dot based luminescent solar concentrators.
Corey Richards University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Corey Richards is a graduate student in the Braun Group at UIUC.
Daniel Bacon-Brown is a graduate student in the Braun research group at the University of Illinois, currently working on design and fabrication of periodic photonic nanostructures.
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- Senior Development Engineer at Xerion Advanced Battery
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- Senior Research Engineer at Intel
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- Research Scientist, Harvard University
Dr. Carissa Nicole Eisler is a postdoc in the Alivisatos group at UC Berkeley. She is currently researching passivation schemes for carrier recombination sites in small (≤ mm 2), high efficiency GaAs cells, as well as other III-V compound cells. She has been investigating simple chemical treatments that can passivate exposed edges, making both small cells and larger cells that are damaged improve in performance and durability.
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- Assistant Director
- Member of the Executive Committee
- Assistant Director of the LMI - EFRC at Caltech
Carrie Hofmann is the Assistant Director of the LMI-EFRC at Caltech. She received her Ph.D. in Materials Science from Caltech with a thesis entitled "Optics at the Nanoscale: Light Emission in Plasmonic Nanocavities" in 2010. She also received her M.S. in Materials Science at Caltech in 2006 and her B.S. in Materials Science and Engineering at the University of Florida in 2003. Dr. Hofmann is responsible for coordinating team communications, cross-institutional collaborations, and center activities and events.
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- Senior Process Engineer, Intermolecular
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- Assistant Professor of Chemical Engineering and Materials Science at the University of Minnesota
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- Process Engineer at Intel
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- Senior Development Engineer at Philips Lumileds Lighting Company
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- Associate in the Rogers Research Group at the University of Illinois
Dr. Luyao Lu is a postdoctoral associate in the Rogers research group at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. His current research focuses on the design and fabrication of photometer for measuring neuron activities. He obtained his PhD from University of Chicago for developing high performance organic photovoltaics.
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- Researcher in the Lewis Lab at the Harvard University School of Engineering
Dr. Mark Scott is a postdoctoral researcher in the Lewis Lab at the Harvard University School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, working on developing 3D printed silver electrodes using in-line laser sintering.
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- Fellow in Jennifer Lewis Group at Harvard
- Harvard University
Dr. Nanjia Zhou is a Dreyfus postdoctoral fellow in Jennifer Lewis group at Harvard. His research focuses on 3D direct ink writing of photovoltaics and integrated circuits. He obtained his PhD from Northwestern University for developing solution-processable photovoltaics and electronics.
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- Argyros Professor of Chemistry
- George L. Argyros Professor of Chemistry
Dr. Nathan Lewis, the George L. Argyros Professor of Chemistry, has been on the faculty at the California Institute of Technology since 1988 and has served as Professor since 1991. He has also served as the Principal Investigator of the Beckman Institute Molecular Materials Resource Center at Caltech since 1992, and is the Scientific Director of the Joint Center for Artificial Photosynthesis, the Energy Innovation Hub in Fuels from Sunlight. From 1981 to 1986, he was on the faculty at Stanford, as an assistant professor from 1981 to 1985 and as a tenured Associate Professor from 1986 to 1988. Dr. Lewis received his Ph.D. in Chemistry from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Dr. Lewis has been an Alfred P. Sloan Fellow, a Camille and Henry Dreyfus Teacher-Scholar, and a Presidential Young Investigator. He received the Fresenius Award in 1990, the ACS Award in Pure Chemistry in 1991, the Orton Memorial Lecture award in 2003, the Princeton Environmental Award in 2003 and the Michael Faraday Medal of the Royal Society of Electrochemistry in 2008. He is currently the Editor-in-Chief of the Royal Society of Chemistry journal, Energy & Environmental Science. He has published over 400 papers and has supervised approximately 60 graduate students and postdoctoral associates.
His research interests include artificial photosynthesis and electronic noses.
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- Postdoctoral Researcher at NREL
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- Director of Lawrence Berkeley National
- Director of the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
- Samsung Distinguished Professor of
Dr. Paul Alivisatos is Director of the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) and is the University of California (UC) Berkeley's Samsung Distinguished Professor of Nanoscience and Nanotechnology. He also directs the Kavli Energy Nanosciences Institute (ENSI), and holds professorships in UC Berkeley's departments of materials science and chemistry. In addition, he is a founder of two prominent nanotechnology companies, Nanosys and Quantum Dot Corp, now a part of Life Tech.
Groundbreaking contributions to the fundamental physical chemistry of nanocrystals are the hallmarks of Dr. Alivisatos's distinguished career. His research breakthroughs include the synthesis of size- and shape-controlled nanoscrystals, and forefront studies of nanocrystal properties, including optical, electrical, structural and thermodynamic. In his research, he has demonstrated key applications of nanocrystals in biological imaging and renewable energy. He played a critical role in the establishment of the Molecular Foundry, a U.S. Department of Energy's Nanoscale Science Research Center; and was the facility's founding director. He is the founding editor of Nano Letters, a leading scientific publication in nanoscience.
Dr. Alivisatos has been recognized for his accomplishments, with awards such as the Wolf Prize in Chemistry, the Linus Pauling Medal, the Ernest Orlando Lawrence Award, the Eni Italgas Prize for Energy and Environment, the Rank Prize for Optoelectronics, the Wilson Prize, the Coblentz Award for Advances in Molecular Spectroscopy, the American Chemical Society Award for Colloid and Surface Science, the Von Hippel Award of the Materials Research Society, and most recently, the 2014 ACS Materials Chemistry Award. He is a member of the National Academy of Sciences and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
Dr. Alivisatos received a Bachelor's degree in Chemistry in 1981 from the University of Chicago and Ph.D. in Chemistry from UC Berkeley in 1986. He began his career with UC Berkeley in 1988 and with Berkeley Lab in 1991.
Soo Jin Kim Stanford University Dr. Soo Jin Kim is a postdoc in the Brongersma Group at Stanford.
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- Fellow in the Alivisatos Group at UC Berkeley
Dr. Stefan Fischer is a postdoctoral fellow in the Alivisatos Group at UC Berkeley. His current research is focused on photon up- and downconversion using semiconductor and lanthanide nanocrystals as well as photonic concepts to improve their optical properties for solar energy harvesting.
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- Professor of Electrical Engineering at Tsinghua University
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- Member of the Executive Committee
- Director of the NSF Center for Energy Efficient Electronics Science ( E 3S )
- Fellow of the Optical Society of America
- RG1 Leader
Eli Yablonovitch is the RG1 Leader in the LMI-EFRC. After a career in industry and in Universities, he is now Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences at UC Berkeley, where he holds the James & Katherine Lau Chair in Engineering. He is also Director of the NSF Center for Energy Efficient Electronics Science (E3S), a multi-University Center based at Berkeley.
Prof. Yablonovitch is a Fellow of the Optical Society of America, the IEEE, and the American Physical Society. He was elected a Member of the National Academy of Engineering, the National Academy of Sciences, the American Academy of Arts & Sciences, and as Foreign Member of the Royal Society of London. He has been awarded the Adolf Lomb Medal, the W. Streifer Scientific Achievement Award, the R.W. Wood Prize, the Julius Springer Prize, the IET Mountbatten Medal (UK), the IEEE Photonics Award, the Harvey Prize (Israel), and the Rank Prize (UK). He also has an honorary Ph.d. from the Royal Inst. of Tech., Stockholm Sweden, and from the Hong Kong Univ. of Sci. & Technology
Ethan Simonoff is a graduate student in the Lewis research group at Caltech. His research focuses on controlling the photoelectrochemical growth of semiconductors on micro- and nanostructures.
Gregg Scranton is a graduate student in the Yablonovitch group at UC Berkeley. He is currently working on light trapping structures for solar cells through computational optimization.
Hanyu Zhu is a graduate student in the Zhang group at UC Berkeley. He is currently working on the electro-mechanical engineering of light-matter interaction in two-dimensional materials.
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- Member of the Executive Committee
- Howard Hughes Professor and Professor of Applied Physics and Materials Science Director, Joint Center for Articificial Photosynthesis
- Howard Hughes Professor and Professor of Applied Physics and Materials Science Director, Joint Center for Artificial Photosynthesis
- Professor of Applied Physics and Materials Science
Professor Harry Atwater is the Howard Hughes Professor of Applied Physics and Materials Science at the California Institute of Technology. Professor Atwater currently serves as Director of the Joint Center for Artificial Photosynthesis. He served as Director of the LMI-EFRC from 2009-2014. He is also the founding Editor-in-Chief for ACS Photonics, and the Co-founder and Chief Technical Advisor for Alta Devices, a company that has developed a low cost GaAs photovoltaics technology with world record cell efficiency. His research interests center around two interwoven research themes: photovoltaics and solar energy; and plasmonics and optical metamaterials. Atwater and his group have been active in photovoltaics research for more than 20 years. Recently they have created new photovoltaic devices, including the silicon wire array solar cell, and layer-transferred fabrication approaches to III-V semiconductor III-V and multijunction cells, as well as making advances in plasmonic light absorber structures for III-V compound and silicon thin films. He is a pioneer in surface plasmon photonics; he gave the name to the field of plasmonics in 2001. Atwater has been honored by awards, including: (2015) Induction into National Academy of Engineering, (2014) Julius Springer Prize in Applied Physics, (2014) ISI Highly Cited Researcher, (2013) Fellowship from the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences, (2012) ENI Prize for Renewable and Non-conventional Energy, SPIE Green Photonics Award (2012), MRS Kavli Lecturer in Nanoscience (2010), and the Popular Mechanics Breakthrough Award (2010). He has authored or co-authored over 200 publications, and his group's developments in the solar and plasmonics field have been featured in Scientific American and in research papers in Science, Nature Materials, Nature Photonics and Advanced Materials.
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- Member of the Executive Committee
- Hansjörg Wyss Professor of Biologically Inspired Engineering / Harvard University
Jennifer A. Lewis joined the faculty of the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences and the Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering at Harvard University in 2013. Prior to her appointment at Harvard, she served as the Director of the Frederick Seitz Materials Research Laboratory and the Hans Thurnauer Professor of Materials Science and Engineering at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Her research focuses on directed assembly of functional and biological materials. She recently co-founded two companies to commercialize technology from her lab. Her work on microscale 3D printing was highlighted as one of the "10 Breakthrough Technologies" by the MIT Technology Review in 2014.
Lewis is the recipient of the NSF Presidential Faculty Fellow Award (1994), the Brunaeur Award from the American Ceramic Society (2003), and the Langmuir Lecture Award from the American Chemical Society (2009), and the MRS Medal Award (2012). She is a Fellow of the American Ceramic Society (2005), the American Physical Society (2007), the Materials Research Society (2011), and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (2012). She serves on the Editorial Advisory Boards of Advanced Materials, Advanced Functional Materials and Soft Matter.
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- Assistant Professor in the Department of Materials Science
- Assistant Professor of Materials Science and Engineering
Jennifer Dionne is an assistant professor in the department of Materials Science and Engineering at Stanford University. In 2009, she received her Ph. D. in Applied Physics at the California Institute of Technology, working with Professor Harry Atwater. In 2010, Dionne served as a postdoctoral research fellow in Chemistry, working with Professor Paul Alivisatos at the University of CA, Berkeley and Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory.
Professor Dionne's research develops new optical materials for applications ranging from high-efficiency solar energy conversion to bioimaging and manipulation. This research has led to demonstration of negative refraction at visible wavelengths, development of a subwavelength silicon electro-optic modulator, development of quantum plasmonic materials, design of new optical tweezers for nano-specimen trapping, and demonstration of a metamaterial fluid.
Recently, Prof. Dionne was awarded the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (2014), the inaugural Kavli Nanoscience Early Career Lectureship from MRS (2013), and was also named one of Technology Review's TR35 - 35 international innovators under 35 tackling important problems in transformative ways (2011). She was also awarded the Outstanding Young Alum award from Washington University in St. Louis (2012), the CAREER Award from the National Science Foundation (2012), an Air Force Office of Scientific Research Young Investigator Grant (2010), the Clauser Prize for best Caltech thesis (2009), and the Materials Research Society Gold Award for outstanding graduate student (2008). In addition, Dionne has received several best paper awards at international conferences and holds patents on upconverting materials, optical tweezers, nano-optical tomography, plasmonic modulators, and plasmonic display technologies. Dionne's work been featured in Nature, Science, and other major scientific journals, as well as on PBS and in Michio Kaku's book "Physics of the Impossible."
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- Member of the Executive Committee
- Professor
- Swanlund Chair, Professor of Materials Science and Engineering, Professor of Chemistry, Director, F. Seitz Materials Research Laboratory
Professor John A. Rogers obtained BA and BS degrees in chemistry and in physics from the University of Texas, Austin, in 1989. From MIT, he received SM degrees in physics and in chemistry in 1992 and the PhD degree in physical chemistry in 1995. From 1995 to 1997, Rogers was a Junior Fellow in the Harvard University Society of Fellows. During this time he also served as a founder and Director of Active Impulse Systems, a company that commercialized technologies developed during his PhD work. He joined Bell Laboratories as a Member of Technical Staff in the Condensed Matter Physics Research Department in 1997, and served as Director of this department from the end of 2000 to 2002. He currently holds a Swanlund Chair, the highest chaired position at the University of Illinois at Urbana/Champaign. He has a primary appointment in the Department of Materials Science and Engineering, with joint appointments in the Departments of Chemistry, Bioengineering, Mechanical Science and Engineering, and Electrical and Computer Engineering. He served as the Director of a Nanoscale Science and Engineering Center on nanomanufacturing, funded by the National Science Foundation, from 2009-2012. He is currently Director of the Seitz Materials Research Laboratory.
Rogers' research includes fundamental and applied aspects of nano and molecular scale fabrication as well as materials and patterning techniques for unusual electronic and photonic devices, with an emphasis on bio-integrated and bio-inspired systems. He has published more than 450 papers, and is an inventor on over 80 patents and patent applications, more than 50 of which are licensed or in active use by large companies and startups that he has co-founded. His research has been recognized with many awards including, most recently, the A.C. Eringen Medal of the Society for Engineering Science (2014), the Smithsonian Award for American Ingenuity in the Physical Sciences (2013), the Robert Henry Thurston Award from the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (2013), the Mid-Career Researcher Award from the Materials Research Society (2013), the Lemelson-MIT Prize (2011), a MacArthur Fellowship from the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation (2009), the George Smith Award from the IEEE (2009), the National Security Science and Engineering Faculty Fellowship from the Department of Defense (2008), the Daniel Drucker Eminent Faculty Award from the University of Illinois (2007) and the Leo Hendrick Baekeland Award from the American Chemical Society (2007). Rogers is a member of the National Academy of Engineering (NAE; 2011) and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (AAAS; 2014), a Fellow of the Institute for Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE; 2009), the American Physical Society (APS; 2006), the Materials Research Society (MRS; 2007), the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS; 2008) and the National Academy of Inventors (NAI; 2013).
Jonathan Thompson is a graduate student in the Lewis group at Caltech. He is working on using surface modifications of randomly dispersed silicon microwires to control their alignment and aggregation.
Junwen He is a graduate student in the Nuzzo group focusing on spectrum splitting with dispersive optics and concentration photovoltaics. He is employing the epitaxial liftoff technique on III-V solar micro-cells.
Kaifeng Chen is a graduate student in Shanhui Fan's research group at Stanford University. He has broad research interests in near-field optoelectronic devices, such as TPV and solid-state cooling devices.
Ki Jun Yu University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Ki Jun Yu is a postdoc in the Rogers Group at UIUC.
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- Nanoscience and Nanotechnology and Professor of Chemistry and Materials Science & Engineering
Lu Xu is a graduate student in the Nuzzo research group at the University of Illinois currently working on design and fabrication of quantum dot based luminescent solar concentrators.
Lyann Lau is the LMI EFRC Administrator, providing administrative support to Director Ralph Nuzzo and Assistant Director Carrie Hofmann. She is also responsible for conference and meeting coordination, report assembly, and website maintenance.
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- Professor of Materials Science and Engineering
Mark Brongersma is a Professor in the Department of Materials Science and Engineering at Stanford University. He received his PhD from the FOM Institute in Amsterdam, The Netherlands, in 1998. From 1998-2001 he was a postdoctoral research fellow at the California Institute of Technology. His current research is directed towards the development and physical analysis of nanostructured materials that find application in nanoscale electronic and photonic devices. Brongersma received a National Science Foundation Career Award, the Walter J. Gores Award for Excellence in Teaching, the International Raymond and Beverly Sackler Prize in the Physical Sciences (Physics) for his work on plasmonics, and is a Fellow of the Optical Society of America, the SPIE, and the American Physical Society.
Michael Wisser is a graduate student in the Dionne and Salleo Groups at Stanford University. His research is primarily focused on lanthanide ion-based upconverting materials in the context of solar energy applications.
Michelle Sherrott is a graduate student in the Atwater Group. She is currently working on tunable graphene plasmonics for infrared radiation control.
Michelle Solomon is a graduate student in the Dionne group at Stanford. Her current research focuses on harnessing the energy of hot plasmonic carriers, as well as dynamic optical materials.
Mikayla Anderson is a graduate student in the Nuzzo group working on spectrum splitting in III-V photovoltaic devices, utilizing epitaxial lift-off to fabricate solar micro-cells.
Nate Thomas is a graduate student in the Minnich Group at Caltech. He is currently working to design and fabricate spectrally selective solar absorbers for use in solar thermophotovoltaics.
Osman Safa Cifci is a graduate student in the Braun group at UIUC. He is working on spectrum splitting devices for solar cell applications.
Dr. Parthiban Santhanam is a postdoc working under Prof. Shanhui Fan at Stanford. His work is primarily geared toward the experimental demonstration of LED refrigeration at practical power density. His broader focus is on thermally- and electrically-driven semiconductor diodes.
Patrick Xiao is a graduate student working in the Yablonovitch group at UC Berkeley. He is investigating novel approaches to solar spectral splitting and computational design of spectral splitting structures.
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- Ivan Racheff Professor of Materials Science and Engineering
Professor Paul V. Braun is the Ivan Racheff Professor of Materials Science and Engineering, and an affiliate of the Frederick Seitz Materials Research Laboratory, the Beckman Institute forAdvanced Science and Technology, the Department of Chemistry, the Micro and Nanotechnology Laboratory and the Mechanical Science and Engineering Department at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Prof. Braun's research focuses on the synthesis and properties of 3D architectures with a focus on materials with unique optical, electrochemical, thermal, and mechanical properties. Prof. Braun received his B.S. degree with distinction from Cornell University in 1993, and his Ph.D. in Materials Science and Engineering from Illinois in 1998. Following a postdoctoral appointment at Bell Labs, Lucent Technologies, he joined the faculty at Illinois in 1999. Prof. Braun has co-authored a book, authored over 100 peer-reviewed publications, and has been awarded multiple patents. He is the recipient of the Young Alumnus Award (2011), the Friedrich Wilhelm Bessel Research Award (2010), the Stanley H. Pierce Faculty Award (2010), Beckman Young Investigator Award (2001), a 3M Nontenured Faculty Award, the 2002 Robert Lansing Hardy Award from TMS, the Xerox Award for Faculty Research (2004, 2009), and multiple teaching awards. In 2006, he was named a University Scholar by the University of Illinois , and in 2011 was named the Ivan Racheff Professor of Materials Science and Engineering.
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- Director
- Member of the Executive Committee
- Clark Professor of Chemistry Director, LMI - EFRC Visiting Associate in Applied Physics and Materials Science, California Institute of Technology
- Clark Professor of Chemistry Director, LMI - EFRC Visiting Associate in Applied Physics and Materials Science, Caltech
- Director of the LMI - EFRC
Ralph G. Nuzzo is the Director of the LMI-EFRC, appointed in 2015. He is the G. L. Clark Professor of Chemistry at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, a faculty he joined in 1991 and where he also holds an appointment as a Professor of Materials Science and Engineering. He also is a Visiting Associate in Applied Physics and Materials Science at the California Institute of Technology. Dr. Nuzzo received an AB degree with High Honors and Highest Distinction in Chemistry from Rutgers College in 1976 and earned a Ph.D. in Organic Chemistry from The Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1980. He accepted the position of Member of Technical Staff in Materials Research at Bell Laboratories in Murray Hill, NJ in 1980, where he was named a Distinguished Member of the Staff in Research in 1987. He joined the Illinois faculty in 1991. He is a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the American Chemical Society, the World Innovation Foundation, and the American Vacuum Society. He awards include the Forschungspreis of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation in 2011, co-recipient of the George E. Smith Award of the IEEE in 2008, the Wall Street Journal Innovators Award for Semiconductors in 2006, and the Adamson Award of the American Chemical Society in 2003 for original discoveries leading to the development of self-assembled monolayers. He currently serves as a Senior Editor of Langmuir as well as a member of numerous advisory boards for both public and private entities. He is a cofounder of Semprius-a company developing new forms of high performance electronics.
Seyedeh Mahsa Kamali is a graduate student in the Faraon group at Caltech, currently working on conformable and tunable flexible dielectric metasurfaces.
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- Member of the Executive Committee
- Professor of Electrical Engineering
Shanhui Fan is a Professor of Electrical Engineering, and the Director of the Edward L. Ginzton Laboratory, at the Stanford University. He received his Ph. D in 1997 in theoretical condensed matter physics from MIT. His research interests are in nanophotonics. He has published over 350 refereed journal articles and has given over 270 invited talks, and was granted 53 US patents. Prof. Fan received a NSF Career Award, a David and Lucile Packard Fellowship, the National Academy of Sciences Award for Initiative in Research, and the Adolph Lomb Medal from the Optical Society of America. He is a Fellow of APS, OSA, SPIE, and IEEE.
Sisir Yalamanchili California Institute of Technology Sisir Yalamanchili is a graduate student in Lewis and Atwater Group at Caltech.
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- Kuh Endowed Chaired Professor of Mechanical Engineering and LBNL Materials Sciences Division Director
Professor Xiang Zhang is the inaugural Ernest S. Kuh Endowed Chaired Professor at UC Berkeley and Director of NSF Nano-scale Science and Engineering Center. He is the Director of the Materials Sciences Division at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, and a member of the Kavli Energy Nano Science Institute. He is an elected member of US National Academy of Engineering, Academia Sinica (National Academy in PR China), and Fellow of five scientific societies: APS, OSA, AAAS, SPIE, and ASME. Zhang received Ph.D from UC Berkeley, MS from University of Minnesota and MS/BS from Nanjing University, PR China. He was an assistant professor at Pennsylvania State University (1996-1999), and associate professor and full professor at UCLA (1999-2004) prior to joining Berkeley faculty in 2004. Professor Zhang's current research focuses on nano-scale science and technology, materials physics, photonics and bio-technologies.
Xin Ning University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Xin Ning is a graduate student in the Rogers Group at UIUC.
Ying Wang Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory Ying Wang is a graduate student in the Zhang group at UC Berkeley.
Yuan Yao is a graduate student in the Nuzzo group working on 3-D integration of flexible photovoltaics based on silicon.
Zoila Jurado is a graduate student in Minnich Group at Caltech. Zoila's current research focuses on selective thermal emission for energy applications.