News

The Vannevar Bush Faculty Fellowship (VBFF) from the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) is a very competitive five-year fellowship, considered the DoD’s most prestigious single-investigator award. 

Mark Turiansky’s dissertation has been selected as the winner of the 2022 Lancaster Dissertation Award in the field of Mathematics, Physical Sciences and Engineering

Dr. Fangzhou Zhao selected as 2021 Elings Prize postdoctoral fellow in the California NanoSystems Institute (CNSI) of UCSB

Dr. Mengen Wang received MRL/DOW travel award at UCSB.

Mark Turiansky and Mengen Wang among recipients of travel awards for the 2022 APS March Meeting.

2021 marks the 5^th consecutive year in which Prof. Van de Walle received the distinction

Dr. Sai Mu has been awarded an “Outstanding Postdoctoral Researcher Award” by the Solid State Lighting and Energy Electronics Center (SSLEEC) “for outstanding modeling of scandium nitride and related materials”.
 

Tyndall researcher Dr. Christopher Broderick is awarded a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Global Fellowship to join the Van de Walle group at UCSB

He was one of several graduate students recognized with an inaugural Bright Horizon Global Foundation Materials Department Service Award.

Work led by Dr. Xie Zhang highlights hydrogen vacancies as sources of non-radiative loss in perovskite solar cells.