Harry
Atwater, Howard Hughes Professor
and Professor of  Applied
Physics and Materials Science, has authored the
cover article of Scientific American (April 2007)
with his article "The Promise of Plasmonics." He
describes the potential of technologies that
use electron density waves called plasmons. Among
many potential applications, plasmonic circuits
could help the designers of computer chips build
fast interconnects that could move large amounts
of data across a chip.
May
11, 2007, California
Clean Innovation 2007
California Clean Innovation 2007 (CACI) provides an unprecedented
opportunity for business, investment and government leaders,
members of the media, and university innovators and students
to expand their knowledge of the clean tech landscape.
CACI’s day-long conference reviewed the current state of the Clean Technology
sector, explored applications on the horizon, and discussed the importance of
each discipline & success factor across the clean
tech value chain. Two vital segments, Energy and Transportation,
were the primary focus of this event. More
details...
The
National Science Foundation Awards $11.16 Million to the
Center for the Science and Engineering of Materials (CSEM).
The renewal funding will allow the center to continue its
work in exotic and futuristic materials applications, such
as macromolecular materials, ferroelectric photonics, novel
composites of glass and metals, spintronic devices, and
fuel cells. Read
more...
Orange
Blossom Time: The
Citrus Heritage of Southern California
CSEM Sponsors Science Activities for Educators and the General Public at the Pasadena
Museum of History.
CSEM
sponsored science activities throughout Fall 2005 and offered The
Science of Citrus on October 25, 2005.
Active
Nanophotonic Devices Symposium was held
on Sunday, May 21, 2006.
(View
details)
The
CSEM 5th Annual Meeting was held on Tuesday,
September 27th, 2005. (View
photos)
Caltech
has teamed up with the energy company BP to look for
better and cheaper ways of producing solar cells. The
Caltech solar nanorod program will be directed by Nate
Lewis,
the George L. Argyros Professor and Professor of Chemistry,
and Harry
Atwater, the Howard Hughes Professor and Professor
of Applied Physics and Materials Science. Atwater's
group will investigate ways of creating silicon-based
single-junction and compound semiconductor-multijunction
nanorod solar cells using vapor-deposition synthesis
methods that are scalable to very large areas. Read
more...
National
Chemistry Week 2005 - The Joy of Toys, October 16-22,
2005
Click here for details and wonderful resources from the American Chemical Society.
Mario
Blanco featured in the "The Adventures of Meg A. Mole" a webpage that visits scientists to learn about their job. Meg A. Mole is a program of the "American Chemical Society." (pdf | html)
CSEM hosted the
Fourth Workshop of the National Science Foundation Research Center Educators
Network (NRCEN) April
7-10, 2005. Learn
more about the meeting.
Caltech's "Take
Our Children to Work Day" was
held Thursday April 28, 2005. This annual
event is a great way for children to see the exciting things that
go on at Caltech and introduce them to various career opportunities.
The CSEM 4th Annual Meeting was held on Thursday, October 28th, 2004. Click for details on the 4th Annual Meeting! (Pictures from the 3rd Annual Meeting in September 2003)
MRSEC Directors Meeting was hosted by CSEM on Friday, October 29,
2004.
Opportunities for You in Science and Engineering: Open
House for High School Students was held on Saturday, October 23, 2004 (Photo Gallery)
CSEM Celebrated National Chemistry Week 2004 Health and Wellness,
October 17-23, 2004.
2004 GradPreview at Caltech aims
to increase the representation of underrepresented students in science and engineering
graduate programs. (Pictures
from GradPreview in January 2004)
Latest Caltech Invention: "Bubbloy"
First there was Liquidmetal, that wondrous substance from Bill Johnson's materials science lab at Caltech that is now used for golf clubs and tennis rackets. Now a couple of Johnson's enterprising grad students have come up with a new invention-liquid metal foam.
Opportunites
for You In Science and Engineering - Open House for High
School Students
was held on November 22, 2003. (Photo Gallery)
Summer 2003 - High
School Interns.
Follow
these links for information about past events.
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