Harry Atwater

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Harry Atwater
Born
Harry Albert Atwater, Jr.
Alma materMassachusetts Institute of Technology
Scientific career
Fields
InstitutionsCalifornia Institute of Technology
ThesisIon beam enhanced grain growth in thin films (1987)
Doctoral advisors
  • Henry I. Smith
  • Carl V. Thompson
Doctoral studentsJennifer Dionne
Prineha Narang

Harry Albert Atwater, Jr.[1] is the Otis Booth Leadership Chair of the Division of Engineering and Applied Science, and the Howard Hughes Professor and Professor of Applied Physics and Materials Science at the California Institute of Technology. Currently he is the Director for the Liquid Sunlight Alliance (LiSA), a Department of Energy Hub program for solar fuels.[2]  Atwater’s scientific effort focuses on nanophotonic light-matter interactions and solar energy conversion.  His current research in energy centers on high efficiency photovoltaics, carbon capture and removal, and photoelectrochemical processes for generation of solar fuels.[3] His research has resulted in world records for solar photovoltaic conversion and photoelectrochemical water splitting. His work also spans fundamental nanophotonic phenomena, in plasmonics and 2D materials, and also applications including active metasurfaces and optical propulsion.  

From 2014-2020, Atwater served as Director of the Joint Center for Artificial Photosynthesis (JCAP), the DOE Energy Innovation Hub for solar fuels.   Atwater was an early pioneer in nanophotonics and plasmonics; he gave the name to the field of plasmonics in 2001.  Atwater is a Member of US National Academy of Engineering, and a Web of Science Highly Cited Researcher.  He is also founder of 5 early-stage companies, including Captura, which is developing scalable approaches to carbon dioxide removal from oceanwater, and Alta Devices, which set world records for photovoltaic cell and module efficiency. He is also a Fellow of the SPIE as well as APS, MRS, Optica, and the National Academy of Inventors. He is also the founding Editor in Chief of the journal ACS Photonics, and Chair of the LightSail Committee for the Breakthrough Starshot program.[4] He is the recipient of numerous awards, including the 2021 von Hippel Award of the Materials Research Society.   

Biography

Atwater received his S.B. (1981), S.M. (1983), and Ph.D. (1987) in electrical engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He serves as Director of the DOE Energy Frontier Research Center on Light-Material Interactions in Solar Energy Conversion and was named Director of the Resnick Institute for Science, Energy and Sustainability, Caltech's largest endowed research program focused on energy. Atwater is founder and chief technical advisor for Alta Devices, a venture-backed company in Santa Clara, CA developing a transformational high efficiency/low cost photovoltaics technology, and Aonex Corporation, a compound semiconductor materials company. He has also served an editorial board member for Surface Review and Letters. Professor Atwater has actively served the materials community in various capacities, including Materials Research Society Meeting Chair (1997),[5] Materials Research Society President (2000),[6] AVS Electronic Materials and Processing Division Chair (1999), and Board of Trustees of the Gordon Research Conferences. In 2008, he served as Chair for the Gordon Research Conference on Plasmonics. Since 2014, he has served as the editor-in-chief of the journal ACS Photonics, published by the American Chemical Society.[4] In 2015, Atwater was elected as a member into the National Academy of Engineering for his contributions to plasmonics.

Research

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. 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. His research 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.

Awards

Atwater is an MRS Fellow[7]and has been honored by awards including the 2021 Von Hippel Award from the Materials Research Society; 2012 ENI award for Renewable and Non-Conventional Energy; MRS Kavli Lecturer in Nanoscience in 2010; Popular Mechanics Breakthrough Award, 2010; Joop Los Fellowship from the Dutch Society for Fundamental Research on Matter in 2005, A.T. & T. Foundation Award, 1990; NSF Presidential Young Investigator Award, 1989; IBM Faculty Development Award, 1989–1990; Member, Bohmische Physical Society, 1990; IBM Postdoctoral Fellowship, 1987. He is a member of the National Academy of Engineering.[2]

Selected publications

References

  1. ^ Atwater, Jr., Harry Albert (1987). Ion beam enhanced grain growth in thin films (PhD). Massachusetts Institute of Technology. hdl:1721.1/49890.
  2. ^ a b "Professor Harry Atwater". Atwater Research Group. Retrieved 2019-12-29.
  3. ^ "Research". daedalus.caltech.edu. Retrieved 2022-10-25.
  4. ^ a b "Editor profile – ACS Photonics". Retrieved 2014-08-20.
  5. ^ "1997 MRS Fall Meeting | Boston". www.mrs.org. Retrieved 2019-07-08.
  6. ^ "Past MRS Presidents". www.mrs.org. Retrieved 2019-07-08.
  7. ^ "2011 MRS Fellows". www.mrs.org. Retrieved 2019-07-08.
  8. ^ Yang, Chenchen; Atwater, Harry A.; Baldo, Marc A.; Baran, Derya; Barile, Christopher J.; Barr, Miles C.; Bates, Matthew; Bawendi, Moungi G.; Bergren, Matthew R.; Borhan, Babak; Brabec, Christoph J.; Brovelli, Sergio; Bulović, Vladimir; Ceroni, Paola; Debije, Michael G. (2022-01-19). "Consensus statement: Standardized reporting of power-producing luminescent solar concentrator performance". Joule. 6 (1): 8–15. doi:10.1016/j.joule.2021.12.004. ISSN 2542-4351.
  9. ^ Fenwick, Aidan Q.; Welch, Alex J.; Li, Xueqian; Sullivan, Ian; DuChene, Joseph S.; Xiang, Chengxiang; Atwater, Harry A. (2022-02-11). "Probing the Catalytically Active Region in a Nanoporous Gold Gas Diffusion Electrode for Highly Selective Carbon Dioxide Reduction". ACS Energy Letters. 7 (2): 871–879. doi:10.1021/acsenergylett.1c02267. ISSN 2380-8195.
  10. ^ Akbari, Hamidreza; Biswas, Souvik; Jha, Pankaj Kumar; Wong, Joeson; Vest, Benjamin; Atwater, Harry A. (2022-10-12). "Lifetime-Limited and Tunable Quantum Light Emission in h-BN via Electric Field Modulation". Nano Letters. 22 (19): 7798–7803. doi:10.1021/acs.nanolett.2c02163. ISSN 1530-6984.
  11. ^ Lin, Wei‐Hsiang; Wu, Pin Chieh; Akbari, Hamidreza; Rossman, George R.; Yeh, Nai‐Chang; Atwater, Harry A. (January 2022). "Electrically Tunable and Dramatically Enhanced Valley‐Polarized Emission of Monolayer WS 2 at Room Temperature with Plasmonic Archimedes Spiral Nanostructures". Advanced Materials. 34 (3): 2104863. doi:10.1002/adma.202104863. ISSN 0935-9648.
  12. ^ Chen, Hongjun; Zheng, Jianghui; Ballestas‐Barrientos, Alfonso; Bing, Jueming; Liao, Chwenhaw; Yuen, Alexander K. L.; Fois, Chiara A. M.; Valtchev, Peter; Proschogo, Nicholas; Bremner, Stephen P.; Atwater, Harry A.; Boyer, Cyrille; Maschmeyer, Thomas; Ho‐Baillie, Anita W. Y. (2022-09-20). "Solar‐Driven Co‐Production of Hydrogen and Value‐Add Conductive Polyaniline Polymer". Advanced Functional Materials: 2204807. doi:10.1002/adfm.202204807. ISSN 1616-301X.
  13. ^ Shayegan, Komron J.; Zhao, Bo; Kim, Yonghwi; Fan, Shanhui; Atwater, Harry A. (2022-05-06). "Nonreciprocal infrared absorption via resonant magneto-optical coupling to InAs". Science Advances. 8 (18): eabm4308. doi:10.1126/sciadv.abm4308. ISSN 2375-2548. PMC 9075795. PMID 35522747.
  14. ^ Gao, Ramon; Kelzenberg, Michael D.; Kim, Yonghwi; Ilic, Ognjen; Atwater, Harry A. (2022-06-15). "Optical Characterization of Silicon Nitride Metagrating-Based Lightsails for Self-Stabilization". ACS Photonics. 9 (6): 1965–1972. doi:10.1021/acsphotonics.1c02022. ISSN 2330-4022.
  15. ^ Enright, Michael J.; Jasrasaria, Dipti; Hanchard, Mathilde M.; Needell, David R.; Phelan, Megan E.; Weinberg, Daniel; McDowell, Brinn E.; Hsiao, Haw-Wen; Akbari, Hamidreza; Kottwitz, Matthew; Potter, Maggie M.; Wong, Joeson; Zuo, Jian-Min; Atwater, Harry A.; Rabani, Eran (2022-05-05). "Role of Atomic Structure on Exciton Dynamics and Photoluminescence in NIR Emissive InAs/InP/ZnSe Quantum Dots". The Journal of Physical Chemistry C. 126 (17): 7576–7587. doi:10.1021/acs.jpcc.2c01499. ISSN 1932-7447.
  16. ^ Sullivan, Ian; Goryachev, Andrey; Digdaya, Ibadillah A.; Li, Xueqian; Atwater, Harry A.; Vermaas, David A.; Xiang, Chengxiang (November 2021). "Coupling electrochemical CO2 conversion with CO2 capture". Nature Catalysis. 4 (11): 952–958. doi:10.1038/s41929-021-00699-7. ISSN 2520-1158.
  17. ^ Biswas, Souvik; Grajower, Meir Y.; Watanabe, Kenji; Taniguchi, Takashi; Atwater, Harry A. (2021-10-22). "Broadband electro-optic polarization conversion with atomically thin black phosphorus". Science. 374 (6566): 448–453. doi:10.1126/science.abj7053. ISSN 0036-8075.
  18. ^ Cheng, Wen-Hui; de la Calle, Alberto; Atwater, Harry A.; Stechel, Ellen B.; Xiang, Chengxiang (2021-09-10). "Hydrogen from Sunlight and Water: A Side-by-Side Comparison between Photoelectrochemical and Solar Thermochemical Water-Splitting". ACS Energy Letters. 6 (9): 3096–3113. doi:10.1021/acsenergylett.1c00758. ISSN 2380-8195.
  19. ^ Cho, Chullhee; Wong, Joeson; Taqieddin, Amir; Biswas, Souvik; Aluru, Narayana R.; Nam, SungWoo; Atwater, Harry A. (2021-05-12). "Highly Strain-Tunable Interlayer Excitons in MoS 2 /WSe 2 Heterobilayers". Nano Letters. 21 (9): 3956–3964. doi:10.1021/acs.nanolett.1c00724. ISSN 1530-6984.
  20. ^ Welch, Alex J.; Fenwick, Aidan Q.; Böhme, Annette; Chen, Hsiang-Yun; Sullivan, Ian; Li, Xueqian; DuChene, Joseph S.; Xiang, Chengxiang; Atwater, Harry A. (2021-09-30). "Operando Local pH Measurement within Gas Diffusion Electrodes Performing Electrochemical Carbon Dioxide Reduction". The Journal of Physical Chemistry C. 125 (38): 20896–20904. doi:10.1021/acs.jpcc.1c06265. ISSN 1932-7447.
  21. ^ Cheng, Wen-Hui; Richter, Matthias H.; Sullivan, Ian; Larson, David M.; Xiang, Chengxiang; Brunschwig, Bruce S.; Atwater, Harry A. (2020-02-14). "CO 2 Reduction to CO with 19% Efficiency in a Solar-Driven Gas Diffusion Electrode Flow Cell under Outdoor Solar Illumination". ACS Energy Letters. 5 (2): 470–476. doi:10.1021/acsenergylett.9b02576. ISSN 2380-8195.
  22. ^ DuChene, Joseph S.; Tagliabue, Giulia; Welch, Alex J.; Li, Xueqian; Cheng, Wen-Hui; Atwater, Harry A. (2020-04-08). "Optical Excitation of a Nanoparticle Cu/p-NiO Photocathode Improves Reaction Selectivity for CO 2 Reduction in Aqueous Electrolytes". Nano Letters. 20 (4): 2348–2358. doi:10.1021/acs.nanolett.9b04895. ISSN 1530-6984.
  23. ^ Wong, Joeson; Omelchenko, Stefan T.; Atwater, Harry A. (2021-01-08). "Impact of Semiconductor Band Tails and Band Filling on Photovoltaic Efficiency Limits". ACS Energy Letters. 6 (1): 52–57. doi:10.1021/acsenergylett.0c02362. ISSN 2380-8195.
  24. ^ Wu, Pin Chieh; Pala, Ragip A.; Kafaie Shirmanesh, Ghazaleh; Cheng, Wen-Hui; Sokhoyan, Ruzan; Grajower, Meir; Alam, Muhammad Z.; Lee, Duhyun; Atwater, Harry A. (2019-08-13). "Dynamic beam steering with all-dielectric electro-optic III–V multiple-quantum-well metasurfaces". Nature Communications. 10 (1): 3654. doi:10.1038/s41467-019-11598-8. ISSN 2041-1723.
  25. ^ Haegel, Nancy M.; Atwater, Harry; Barnes, Teresa; Breyer, Christian; Burrell, Anthony; Chiang, Yet-Ming; De Wolf, Stefaan; Dimmler, Bernhard; Feldman, David; Glunz, Stefan; Goldschmidt, Jan Christoph; Hochschild, David; Inzunza, Ruben; Kaizuka, Izumi; Kroposki, Ben (2019-05-31). "Terawatt-scale photovoltaics: Transform global energy". Science. 364 (6443): 836–838. doi:10.1126/science.aaw1845. ISSN 0036-8075.
  26. ^ Tagliabue, Giulia; Jermyn, Adam S.; Sundararaman, Ravishankar; Welch, Alex J.; DuChene, Joseph S.; Pala, Ragip; Davoyan, Artur R.; Narang, Prineha; Atwater, Harry A. (2018-08-23). "Quantifying the role of surface plasmon excitation and hot carrier transport in plasmonic devices". Nature Communications. 9 (1): 3394. doi:10.1038/s41467-018-05968-x. ISSN 2041-1723.
  27. ^ Wong, Joeson; Jariwala, Deep; Tagliabue, Giulia; Tat, Kevin; Davoyan, Artur R.; Sherrott, Michelle C.; Atwater, Harry A. (2017-07-25). "High Photovoltaic Quantum Efficiency in Ultrathin van der Waals Heterostructures". ACS Nano. 11 (7): 7230–7240. doi:10.1021/acsnano.7b03148. ISSN 1936-0851.
  28. ^ Shaner, Matthew A.; Atwater, Harry S.; Lewis, Nathan W.; McFarland, Eric (2016). "A comparative technoeconomic analysis of renewable hydrogen production using solar energy". Energy & Environmental Science. 9 (7): 2354–2371. doi:10.1039/C5EE02573G.
  29. ^ Verlage, Erik; Hu, Shu; Liu, Rui; Jones, Ryan J. R.; Sun, Ke; Xiang, Chengxiang; Lewis, Nathan S.; Atwater, Harry A. (2015-10-28). "A monolithically integrated, intrinsically safe, 10% efficient, solar-driven water-splitting system based on active, stable earth-abundant electrocatalysts in conjunction with tandem III–V light absorbers protected by amorphous TiO2 films". Energy & Environmental Science. 8 (11): 3166–3172. doi:10.1039/C5EE01786F. ISSN 1754-5706.
  30. ^ Sheldon, Matthew T.; van de Groep, Jorik; Brown, Ana M.; Polman, Albert; Atwater, Harry A. (2014-11-14). "Plasmoelectric potentials in metal nanostructures". Science. 346 (6211): 828–831. doi:10.1126/science.1258405. ISSN 0036-8075.
  31. ^ Kosten, Emily D.; Atwater, Jackson H.; Parsons, James; Polman, Albert; Atwater, Harry A. (January 2013). "Highly efficient GaAs solar cells by limiting light emission angle". Light: Science & Applications. 2 (1): e45–e45. doi:10.1038/lsa.2013.1. ISSN 2047-7538.
  32. ^ Callahan, Dennis M.; Munday, Jeremy N.; Atwater, Harry A. (2012-01-11). "Solar Cell Light Trapping beyond the Ray Optic Limit". Nano Letters. 12 (1): 214–218. doi:10.1021/nl203351k. ISSN 1530-6984.
  33. ^ Yokogawa, Sozo; Burgos, Stanley P.; Atwater, Harry A. (2012-08-08). "Plasmonic Color Filters for CMOS Image Sensor Applications". Nano Letters. 12 (8): 4349–4354. doi:10.1021/nl302110z. ISSN 1530-6984.
  34. ^ Aydin, Koray; Ferry, Vivian E.; Briggs, Ryan M.; Atwater, Harry A. (2011-11-01). "Broadband polarization-independent resonant light absorption using ultrathin plasmonic super absorbers". Nature Communications. 2 (1): 517. doi:10.1038/ncomms1528. ISSN 2041-1723.
  35. ^ Ferry, Vivian E.; Munday, Jeremy N.; Atwater, Harry A. (2010-11-16). "Design Considerations for Plasmonic Photovoltaics". Advanced Materials. 22 (43): 4794–4808. doi:10.1002/adma.201000488.
  36. ^ Ferry, Vivian E.; Verschuuren, Marc A.; Li, Hongbo B. T.; Verhagen, Ewold; Walters, Robert J.; Schropp, Ruud E. I.; Atwater, Harry A.; Polman, Albert (2010-06-21). "Light trapping in ultrathin plasmonic solar cells". Optics Express. 18 (102): A237–A245. doi:10.1364/OE.18.00A237. ISSN 1094-4087.
  37. ^ Dionne, Jennifer A.; Diest, Kenneth; Sweatlock, Luke A.; Atwater, Harry A. (2009-02-11). "PlasMOStor: A Metal−Oxide−Si Field Effect Plasmonic Modulator". Nano Letters. 9 (2): 897–902. doi:10.1021/nl803868k. ISSN 1530-6984.
  38. ^ Ferry, Vivian E.; Sweatlock, Luke A.; Pacifici, Domenico; Atwater, Harry A. (2008-12-10). "Plasmonic Nanostructure Design for Efficient Light Coupling into Solar Cells". Nano Letters. 8 (12): 4391–4397. doi:10.1021/nl8022548. ISSN 1530-6984.
  39. ^ Atwater, Harry A. (2007). "The Promise of PLASMONICS". Scientific American. 296 (4): 56–63. ISSN 0036-8733.

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