Atwater, Harry Albert

Advisor — 114 thesises

• Peng, Siying — 2D and 3D Photonic Crystals: Synthesis, Characterization and Topological Phenomenon (2018, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Sherrott, Michelle Caroline — Active Infrared Nanophotonics in van der Waals Materials (2018, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Diest, Kenneth Alexander — Active Metal-Insulator-Metal Plasmonic Devices (2010, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Dicken, Matthew James — Active Oxide Nanophotonics (2009, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Deceglie, Michael Gardner — Advanced Silicon Solar Cell Device Physics and Design (2013, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Lucas, Éowyn — Advancement of Asymmetric Bipolar Membranes for Tailoring Chemical Environments in Electrochemical Systems (2023, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Camata, Renato Penha — Aerosol synthesis and characterization of silicon nanocrystals (1998, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Holunga, Dean Marcu — Aerosol Technologies for Fabrication, Collection, and Deposition of Engineered Nanoparticles (2006, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Shaner, Matthew Reed — An Experimental and Technoeconomic Study of Silicon Microwire Arrays for Fuel Production Using Solar Energy (2016, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Li, Melissa — Atomically Thin Spatial Light Modulators with Excitonic Nanomaterials (2025, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Seah, Samuel Kai Wen — Black Phosphorus Nanodevices for Active Polarization Control (2026, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Brain, Ruth Amy — Capillary-Driven Reflow of Thin Cu Films with Submicron, High Aspect Ratio Features (1996, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Akbari, Hamidreza — Characterization and Tuning of Quantum Emitters in Hexagonal Boron Nitride (2024, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Brown, Ana Maii — Classical and Quantum Effects in Plasmonic Metals (2016, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Ruglovsky, Jennifer Lynn — Correlating Microscopic Ferroelectric Properties and Macroscopic Thin Film Device Performance (2007, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Burgos, Stanley P. — Coupled Plasmonic Systems and Devices: Applications in Visible Metamaterials, Nanophotonic Circuits, and CMOS Imaging (2013, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Tolstova, Yulia — Cu₂O Heterojunction Photovoltaics (2016, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Darvish, Davis Solomon — Cu₂O Substrates and Epitaxial Cu₂O/ZnO Thin Film Heterostructures for Solar Energy Conversion (2013, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Shin, Jung Hoon — Defects in amorphous silicon : dynamics and role on crystallization (1994, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Casperson, Julie Diane — Design and Characterization of Layered Tunnel Barriers for Nonvolatile Memory Applications (2004, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Warmann, Emily Cathryn — Design Strategies for Ultra-High Efficiency Photovoltaics (2014, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Shing, Amanda M. — Development of Zn-IV-Nitride Semiconductor Materials and Devices (2016, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Ragan, Regina — Direct Energy Bandgap Group IV Alloys and Nanostructures (2002, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Coronel, Naomi Cristina — Earth-Abundant Zinc-IV-Nitride Semiconductors (2016, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Thureja, Prachi — Electrically Reconfigurable Optical Metasurfaces for Universal Wavefront Shaping (2025, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Sisler, Jared — Electrically Tunable Optical Active Metasurfaces in Space and Time (2026, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Whitney, William Schuyler — Electrically-Tunable Light-Matter Interactions in Quantum Materials (2019, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Biswas, Souvik — Electro-Optic Excitations in van der Waals Materials for Active Nanophotonics (2023, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Kafaie Shirmanesh, Ghazaleh — Electro-Optically Tunable Metasurfaces for a Comprehensive Control of Properties of Light (2021, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Miller, Gerald Matthew — Electron Transport in Silicon Nanocrystal Devices: From Memory Applications to Silicon Photonics (2012, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Kim, Seyoon — Electronically Tunable Light Modulation with Graphene and Noble Metal Plasmonics (2017, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Su, Magel Powei — Exploring Thermal Photonics for Sustainability: From Selective Solar Absorbers to Terrestrial Radiative Cooling (2024, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Dionne, Jennifer Anne — Flatland Photonics: Circumventing Diffraction with Planar Plasmonic Architectures (2009, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Flowers, Cristofer Addison — Full Spectrum Ultrahigh Efficiency Photovoltaics: System Design, Integration, and Characterization (2017, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Brouillet, Jeremy Jean — Graphene-Mediated Light-Matter Interaction (2019, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Maier, Stefan Alexander — Guiding of Electromagnetic Energy in Subwavelength Periodic Metal Structures (2003, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Chen, Christopher Tien — Heteroepitaxy of Group IV and Group III-V semiconductor alloys for photovoltaic applications (2016, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Bauser, Haley Coddington — High Contrast Nanophotonics for Scalable Photovoltaics and Solar Fuels (2022, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Needell, David Robert — High-Efficiency Luminescent Solar Concentrators for Photovoltaic Applications (2022, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Verlage, Erik A. — High-Efficiency Solar Fuel Devices: Protection and Light Management Utilizing TiO2 (2017, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Holt, Jason Knowles — Hot-Wire Chemical Vapor Deposition of Silicon and Silicon Nitride for Photovoltaics: Experiments, Simulations, and Applications (2003, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Wray, Parker Ryan — How to Make Small Things Do Big Things: Exploring Engineered Disorder for Massively Scalable Metasurfaces and Metamaterials (2024, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Briggs, Ryan Morrow — Hybrid Silicon Nanophotonic Devices: Enhancing Light Emission, Modulation, and Confinement (2011, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Glaudell, Rebecca Denise — Interface Optimization for Improved Photovoltaic Devices (2022, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Murty, M. V. Ramana — Ion-surface interactions and limits to silicon epitaxy at low temperatures (1995, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Yalamanchili, Sisir — Light Management in Photovoltaics and Photoelectrochemical Cells using Tapered Micro and Nano Structures (2019, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Kim, Yonghwi — Light Modulation with Vanadium Dioxide-Based Optical Devices (2022, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Leenheer, Andrew Jay — Light to Electrons to Bonds: Imaging Water Splitting and Collecting Photoexcited Electrons (2013, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Ferry, Vivian Eleanor — Light Trapping in Plasmonic Solar Cells (2011, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Narang, Prineha — Light-Matter Interactions in Semiconductors and Metals: From Nitride Optoelectronics to Quantum Plasmonics (2015, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Tsai, Cho-Jen — Low energy ion-surface interaction and epitaxial growth in the SiGe system (1992, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Tanabe, Katsuaki — Low-Cost High-Efficiency Solar Cells with Wafer Bonding and Plasmonic Technologies (2008, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Richardson, Christine Esber — Low-Temperature Hot-Wire Chemical Vapor Deposition of Epitaxial Films for Large-Grained Polycrystalline Photovoltaic Devices (2007, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Yang, Chih Meng — Manipulation of Si and Ge Crystallization (1997, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Zahler, James Michael — Materials Integrations for High-Performance Photovoltaics by Wafer Bonding (2005, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Fountaine, Katherine Theresa — Mesoscale Optoelectronic Design of Wire-Based Photovoltaic and Photoelectrochemical Devices (2015, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Hashim, Imran — Microstructural and magnetic properties of polycrystalline and epitaxial permalloy (Ni80Fe20) multilayered thin films (1994, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Weitekamp, Raymond Andrew — Multifunctional Materials: Bottom-Up and Top-Down (2015, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Archer, Melissa Jane — Multijunction Solar Cells on Epitaxial Templates (2008, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Shayegan, Komron Joseph — Nanophotonic Engineering of Thermal Emitters (2025, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Callahan, Dennis Michael — Nanophotonic Light Trapping In Thin Solar Cells (2015, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Gao, Ramon — Nanophotonic Lightsail Optomechanics for Long-Range Optical Manipulation and Interstellar Exploration (2026, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Fleischman, Dagny — Nanophotonic Structures: Fundamentals and Applications in Narrowband Transmission Color Filtering (2019, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• He, Gang — Novel group IV alloy semiconductor materials (1997, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Kim, Laura — Novel Light Emitting Mechanisms Originating from Graphene Plasmons Near and Far from Equilibrium (2019, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Böhme, Annette Ellen — Observation of the Microenvironment Around CO₂ Reduction Electrodes via Fluorescent Confocal Laser-Scanning Microscopy (2024, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Kosten, Emily Dell — Optical Designs for Improved Solar Cell Performance (2014, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Papadakis, Georgia Theano — Optical Response in Planar Heterostructures: From Artificial Magnetism to Angstrom-Scale Metamaterials (2018, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Hofmann, Carrie Elizabeth — Optics at the Nanoscale: Light Emission in Plasmonic Nanocavities (2010, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Darbe, Sunita — Optics for High-Efficiency Full Spectrum Photovoltaics (2017, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Phelan, Megan Elisabeth — Optimization of Photovoltaic Performance for Luminescent Solar Concentrator Systems (2023, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Lloyd, John Vickery — Optoelectronic Design and Prototyping of Spectrum-Splitting Photovoltaics (2018, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Wong, Joeson — Optoelectronic Physics and Engineering of Atomically Thin Photovoltaics (2022, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Emmer, Hal S. — Paths Towards High Efficiency Silicon Photovoltaics (2016, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Eisler, Carissa Nicole — Photonic and Device Design Principles for Ultrahigh-Efficiency (>50%), Spectrum-Splitting Photovoltaics (2016, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Loke, Samuel Pei Hao — Photovoltaic Technologies Developed for Space-Based Solar Power (2022, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Biteen, Julie Suzanne — Plasmon-Enhanced Silicon Nanocrystal Luminescence for Optoelectronic Applications (2006, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Jang, Min Seok — Plasmonics and Electron Optics in Graphene (2013, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Sweatlock, Luke A. — Plasmonics: Numerical Methods and Device Applications (2008, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Virgil, Kyle Allan — Polarization-Resolved, Oblique Incidence Terahertz Spectroscopy of Highly Uniform 2D Hybrid Perovskite Films (2024, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Chen, Claudine Minnie — Polycrystalline Silicon Thin Films for Photovoltaics (2001, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Kim, Areum — Probing Active Nanophotonic Materials Phenomena Under Electrostatic Modulation (2024, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Jahelka, Phillip Robert — Progress in Low-Cost Gallium Arsenide Solar Cells (2022, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Taylor, Maggie Elizabeth — Pulsed laser deposition : energetic growth effects in group iv semiconductor materials (1998, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Brewer, Rhett Ty — Quantitative Biaxial Texture Analysis with Reflection High-Energy Electron Diffraction for Ion Beam-Assisted Deposition of MgO and Heteroepitaxy of Perovskite Ferroelectrics (2004, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Fakonas, James Spencer — Quantum Interference and Entanglement of Surface Plasmons (2015, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Kayes, Brendan Melville — Radial pn Junction, Wire Array Solar Cells (2009, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Bosco, Jeffrey Paul — Rational Design of Zinc Phosphide Heterojunction Photovoltaics (2014, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Pryce, Imogen Mary — Resonant Metallic Nanostructures for Active Metamaterials and Photovoltaics (2011, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Mauser, Kelly Ann Weekley — Resonant Thermoelectric Nanophotonics: Applications in Spectral and Thermal Sensing (2019, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Bukowsky, Courtney Roberta — Scalable Nanophotonic Light Management Design for Solar Cells (2019, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Sercel, Peter C. — Semiconductor structures in the quantum size regime (1992, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Putnam, Morgan Charles — Si Microwire-Array Solar Cells (2010, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Kelzenberg, Michael David — Silicon Microwire Photovoltaics (2010, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Feng, Tao — Silicon Nanocrystal Charging Dynamics and Memory Device Applications (2006, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Walters, Robert Joseph — Silicon Nanocrystals for Silicon Photonics (2007, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Batara, Nicolas Anthony — Spontaneous Pattern Formation in Photoelectrodeposited Semiconductor Films (2017, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Jeon, Seokmin — Structure, Chemistry, and Energetics of Organic and Inorganic Adsorbates on Ga-rich GaAs and GaP(00l) Surfaces (2014, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Wong, Selmer Siu Man — Surface Chemical Analysis Using Reflection Electron Energy Loss Spectrometry During Molecular Beam Epitaxy (1996, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Min, Kyu Sung — Synthesis and properties of light-emitting Si-based nanostructures (2000, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Lin, Wei-Hsiang — Synthesis of 2D Quantum Materials for Nanoelectronic and Nanophotonic Applications (2021, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Mason, Maribeth Swiatek — Synthesis of Large-Grained Polycrystalline Silicon by Hot-Wire Chemical Vapor Deposition for Thin Film Photovoltaic Applications (2004, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Shcheglov, Kirill Vadim — Synthesis, optical and electronic properties of group IV semiconductor nanocrystals (1997, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Langeland, Krista S. — Thin-Film Silicon Photovoltaics: Characterization of Thin-Film Deposition and Analysis of Enhanced Light Trapping from Scattering Nanoparticle Arrays (2012, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Omelchenko, Stefan Thomas — Towards a Net-zero Carbon Energy System: High Efficiency Photovoltaics and Electrocatalysts (2019, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Cheng, Wen-Hui (Sophia) — Towards High Solar to Fuel Efficiency: From Photonic Design, Interface Study, to Device Integration (2020, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Tokpanov, Yury — Towards Next Generation of Optoelectronics: from Quantum Plasmonics and 2D Materials to Advanced Optimization Techniques of Nanophotonic Devices (2020, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Anjum, Sara — Towards Sustainable, Scalable, Low-Cost InP Space Solar Power (2026, Engineer's thesis)
• Went, Cora Margaret — Two-Dimensional Transition Metal Dichalcogenides for Ultrathin Solar Cells (2022, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Welch, Alexandra Justine — Understanding and Optimizing the Local Catalyst Environment in CO₂ Reduction Electrodes (2022, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Mitskovets, Anna — Using DNA Origami to Create Hybrid Nanophotonic Architectures for Single-Photon Emitters (2020, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Turner-Evans, Daniel B. — Wire Array Photovoltaics (2013, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Wilson, Samantha Stricklin — Zn-VI/Cu2O Heterojunctions for Earth-Abundant Photovoltaics (2015, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Kimball, Gregory Michael — Zn₃P₂ and Cu₂O Substrates for Solar Energy Conversion (2012, Dissertation (Ph.D.))