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Congrats to Mallory and Puru!

Mallory and Puru graduate with their MS degrees

Claire Wins Top Award at ECE Undergraduate Poster Session

Claire has been awarded "Gold" by the ECE department for her independent research.

Dr. David Mitzi wins IEEE Cherry Award

Dr. Mitzi wins prestigious Cherry Award from IEEE for lifetime contributions in photovoltaics.

Akash Received the 2023 Collaborative Research Award

Akash Singh has been awarded the 2023 Collaborative Research Award

Max Awarded the 2024-25 FIP Chambers Scholarship

Max McWhorter, a third-year PhD student in Chemistry, has been awarded the 2024-25 Fitzpatrick Institute for Photonics (FIP) John Chambers Scholarship!

Akash Wins Oral Presentation Award at CSS

Akash won Second Place Student Oral Presentation sponsored by Micross at Carolina Science Symposium (CSS). His presentation title is "Glass Formation in Metal Halide Perovskite using Ultrafast Calorimetry".  

Mitzi Group Funded to Teach Computers for Solar Cell Advancements

Prof. David Mitzi, along with Hendrik Heinz, Luis Raúl Castañeda, and Seth Marder, has been awarded a prestigious grant from the Designing Materials to Revolutionize and Engineer our Future (DMREF) program. Their project, titled 'Data-Driven Prediction...

Akash dives into Perovskite Solar Cell on the Podcast

Akash dives into Perovskite Solar Cell on the latest podcast episode 111. Available now on the below link. Good job Akash! Watch THe Podcast 

Congrats to Dr. Yongshin Kim!

Yongshin Kim defended his dissertation titled "Vacuum Deposition, Characterization, Property Engineering of Cu2BaGe1-xSnxSe4 Films and Their PV Applications". Yongshin will soon be joining First Solar as a development engineer.  Congratulations Yongshin...

Akash Wins FIP Student Seminar Award

Akash, a 4th year Ph.D. student in the group, won a FIP Student Seminar Award and gave a FIP award talk titled "Reversible crystal-glass switching and underlying transformation kinetics in hybrid perovskites" on March 1st. Congratulations Akash!

David Mitzi makes "Highly Cited Researchers" list for 2022!

David Mitzi was included in the list of Global Highly Cited Researchers for 2022. Congratulations Dr. Mitzi! READ THE FULL STORY

Yi Wins Poster Prize

Yi Xie, a 4th year Ph.D. candidate in the group, won a silver award at the “Unconventional Semiconductors and Their Applications” section of the Gordon Research Conference in Ventura, California. His poster abstract was selected for “ShortTalks” in the ...

Yongshin Received a Best Poster Award

Yongshin Kim, a 4th year Ph.D. student in our group, received a Best Poster Award in the MRS 2022 Spring Meeting Syposium EN03. Great Job! Congratulations Yongshin!

Congrats to Dr. Betul Teymur!

Congrats to Dr. Betul Teymur for successfully defending her dissertation titled "Solution-Processed Thin Film Deposition and Characterization of Multinary Chalcogenides: Towards Highly Efficient Cu2BaSn(S,Se)4 Solar Devices". Well done Betul! We wish you...

Yongshin achieved a PVSEC Best Oral Award!

Yongshin Kim, a 4th year Ph.D. student in the group, wins a Best Oral Award in the 31st Photovoltaic Science and Engineering Conference. Congratulations Yongshin!