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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!

Dr. Mitzi named to Global Highly Cited Researchers list for 2021

Dr. David Mitzi is one of six Duke Engineering professors named to Clarivate Analytics Global Highly Cited Researchers List. Congratulations Dr. Mitzi! READ THE FULL STORY

Congrats to Dr. McKeown Wessler!

Garrett C. McKeown Wessler successfully defended his dissertation titled "Discovery & Design of Complex Chalcogenide Semiconductors for Optical & Energy Conversion Applications". We wish him all the best of luck in his future endeavors....

David Mitzi and other Duke professors research energy materials for climate change solutions

Profs David Mitzi, Olivier Delaire, and Po-Chun Hsu each work to develop next-generation energy materials to address the global challenges posed by climate change.    FULL STORY

Julie named Distinguished Postdoctoral Fellow at Princeton!

Group alumna Dr. Julie Euvard has been named a Distinguished Postdoctoral Fellow in the Andlinger Center for Energy & the Environment at Princeton University!

Eric wins a Best Poster award at the 2021 Virtual MRS Spring Meeting!

Eric Chang, an undergraduate researcher in the group, was among the recipients of the Best Poster award at the 2021 Virtual Spring MRS Meeting. Congratulations Eric!   Best Poster winners All MRS Spring award winners