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Atwater and Polman Receive the Julius Springer Prize

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BERLIN, Aug. 8, 2014 — Harry Atwater and Albert Polman received the annual Julius Springer Prize for Applied Physics; they were honored for their achievements in plasmonics and nanophotonics.

Atwater and Polman have pioneered the use of metallic nanostructures that support optical resonances called surface plasmons, to control light at the nanoscale. They have demonstrated how light can be more efficiently absorbed and trapped in solar cells by integrating nanostructures in the solar cell, enabling the fabrication of ultrathin solar cells.

Harry Atwater is the Applied Physics and Materials Science professor at the California Institute of Technology and named the plasmonics field in 2001. He is the director of the DOE Energy Frontier Research Center on Light-Matter Interactions in Solar Energy Conversion, the Resnick Institute for Science, Energy and Sustainability at Caltech and is the co-founder and chief technical advisor for Alta Devices.

Albert Polman is the Photonic Materials for Photovoltaics professor at the University of Amsterdam and is the co-founder and technical advisor for Delmic. Polman's research focuses on nanophotonics, with special emphasis on light management in solar cells and optical metamaterials.

The award, alongside $5,000, will be presented to Atwater and Polman in Amsterdam, during the "Julius Springer Forum on Applied Physics" held in September 2014.

For more information, visit www.springer.com, www.amolf.nl and www.caltech.edu.
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Glossary
nano
An SI prefix meaning one billionth (10-9). Nano can also be used to indicate the study of atoms, molecules and other structures and particles on the nanometer scale. Nano-optics (also referred to as nanophotonics), for example, is the study of how light and light-matter interactions behave on the nanometer scale. See nanophotonics.
plasmonics
Plasmonics is a field of science and technology that focuses on the interaction between electromagnetic radiation and free electrons in a metal or semiconductor at the nanoscale. Specifically, plasmonics deals with the collective oscillations of these free electrons, known as surface plasmons, which can confine and manipulate light on the nanometer scale. Surface plasmons are formed when incident photons couple with the conduction electrons at the interface between a metal or semiconductor...
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