Light-Material Interactions in Energy Conversion - Energy Frontier Research Center (LMI-EFRC)

Developing advanced photonic materials for controlling light-matter interactions

Multimaterial 3D printing at the microscale

LMI EFRC annual team meeting

Gold-coated nano crescents for plasmon-enhanced upconversion

The LMI team is developing nanostructures and absorbers for solar energy conversion

LMI is devoted to new designs and materials for photovoltaics that utilize the entire solar spectrum

Laser-enhanced direct ink writing of freestanding metallic microstructures

California Institute of Technology

Hameetman Auditorium at the Cahill Center [map]

LIVE Internet Broadcast

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Recordings of the presentations and panel discussions are available here for online viewing. Detailed abstracts of the presentations and bios for the speakers can be found here.

Photonic Design Principles for Ultrahigh-Efficiency Photovoltaics

Harry Atwater, California Institute of Technology

Microscale Solar Cells for Macroscale Power Generation

John Rogers, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

The Multi-Spectral Opto-Electronic Physics of Solar Cells, Efficiencies >30%

Eli Yablonovitch, University of California, Berkeley

Panel Discussion: Future Directions for Light-Material Interactions in Photovoltaics

Paul Alivisatos, University of California, Berkeley

Paul Braun, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Nate Lewis, California Institute of Technology