News

August 15, 2024

When—and why—does a photon emitter not emit? Research in the Van de Walle group illuminates the issue.

March 27, 2024

He was selected as a UC President’s 2024 Lindau Nobel Laureate Meetings Fellow

March 6, 2024

Dr. Kevin Nangoi, Dr. Mark Turiansky, and Mathilde Franckel receiving travel awards from 2024 APS March Meeting.

November 30, 2023

The award recognizes “advances in development of rigorous ab initio methodologies for understanding point defects and their effect on light emission in wide-bandgap semiconductors”.

November 9, 2023

Dr. Mark Turiansky has been awarded an “Outstanding Postdoctoral Researcher Award” by the Solid State Lighting and Energy Electronics Center (SSLEEC) “For outstanding computational studies of ultra-wide-bandgap materials”.

November 5, 2023

Dr. Fangzhou Zhao received the NERSC High Performance Computing Achievement Award for High Impact Scientific Achievement

September 15, 2023

Dr. Zhao was awarded the Corbett Prize for his work on Trap-Assisted Auger-Meitner recombination. 

November 22, 2022

This marks the sixth year in a row and the seventh time overall that Van de Walle has been named a Highly Cited Researcher.

November 19, 2022

Dr. Mark Turiansky Receives the American Physical Society’s 2023 Nicholas Metropolis Award for Outstanding Doctoral Thesis Work in Computational Physics

November 17, 2022

Dr. Fangzhou Zhao awarded an “Outstanding Postdoctoral Researcher Award” by the Solid State Lighting and Energy Electronics Center (SSLEEC) for the work on Trap-Assisted Auger-Meitner recombinations.