Videos
2018 Van Horn Lecture Series, Part 3
Trip the Light Fantastic: Photonic Materials Challenges for Interstellar Travel: a Van Horn Lecture at Case Western Reserve University, April 19, 2018.
2018 Van Horn Lecture Series, Part 2
Tunable Light-Matter Interactions in Two-Dimensional Materials & Metasurfaces: a Van Horn Lecture at Case Western Reserve University, April 18, 2018.
2018 Van Horn Lecture Series, Part 1
Fueling Human Progress with Sunlight: a Van Horn Lecture at Case Western Reserve University, April 17, 2018.
Deep Dive: Will Tech Save the Planet?
Watch Professor Atwater speak about technology’s role in tackling the modern societal and environmental challenges that face us today. This video was recorded from the Resnick Sustainability Institute’s panel discussion with its Resonate award winners at the Aspen Ideas Festival on July 3, 2015.
A better way to get to space: Dr. Michael Kelzenberg at TEDxWSU 2014
Atwater Group Senior Research Scientist, Dr. Mike Kelzenberg, discusses electromagnetic power beaming for rockets and beyond. Dr. Kelzenberg is an alumni of the Atwater group and formerly worked at Escape Dynamics as a Lead Research Engineer, leading the UAV Power Systems group. To learn more about Escape Dynamics, please visit their website.
2014 Resonate Awards
Caltech’s Resnick Sustainability Institute celebrated its first annual Resonate Awards to commend up-and-coming global innovators in science, technology, economics, and public policy who are pushing the envelope within field of sustainability. The ceremony was featured as part of Fortune’s Brainstorm Green conference in May 2014.
ACS Photonics: New Home for Interdisciplinary Photonics Research
Professor Atwater, Editor-in-Chief of ACS Photonics, shares his insights for the new publication and the field of photonics research.
Photonic Design Principles for Ultrahigh-Efficiency Photovoltaics
Talk given by Professor Harry Atwater for the “Approaches to Ultrahigh Efficiency Solar Energy Conversion” webinar from March 7, 2013. For more videos from this event, please visit the LMI-EFRC website.
MIT Technology Review: Cheap, Efficient Solar
Professor Atwater, co-founder of Alta Devices, talks with MIT Technology Review about the future of affordable solar technology during the 37th IEEE Photovoltaics Specialists Conference. Broadcast on June 29, 2011.
TedX Caltech 2011: A Portrait of the Scientist as a Young Scientist
Atwater Group alumnus, Dennis Callahan, discusses two important aspects of his life: novel designs for high-efficiency solar cells and and generative art.