News

Vladimir, Joel, and lightweight solar cells featured on CNBC
Thu, 06/01/2017

Ultra-light, ultra-thin solar cells offer glimpse of the future

ONE Lab's Apoorva Murarka wins Lemelson-MIT Student Prize
Wed, 04/19/2017

Congratulations to Apoorva for being selected as one of this year's Lemelson-MIT Prize recipients!

The award citation is below:

Apoorva Murarka of MIT, $15,000 Lemelson-MIT “Use it!” Graduate Winner for contact-printed nano-membrane transducers for sound production. Murarka, a grad student in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, invented an electrostatic transducer that uses a 125 nanometer thick membrane — approximately one-thousandth the width of a human hair — to produce high-fidelity sound more efficiently. This technology can be...

ONE Lab's Sam Stranks receives IUPAP Young Scientist Prize in Semiconductor Physics
Wed, 08/24/2016

Sam received the International Union for Pure and Applied Physics's Young Scientist Prize in Semiconductor Physics at ICPS 2016 in Beijing "for pioneering discoveries in the field of perovskite solar cells and optoelectronics through spectroscopy”.

Congratulations Sam!

ICPS 2016 news article

The Next Big Thing at MIT Will Be Very, Very Small
Tue, 08/23/2016

Vladimir and MIT.nano featured in Technology Review.

ONE Lab featured in CNBC segment on MIT energy education
Mon, 08/15/2016
CoalMap featured in MIT News
Wed, 06/22/2016

Joel's CoalMap project is featured in MIT News, the MITEI homepage, and popular press. 

Check out the CoalMap web app and the associated MITEI Working Paper!

Our work on photo-induced healing of perovskites for solar cells highlighted in MIT News
Tue, 05/24/2016

Sam and Anna's work on photo-induced healing of defect states in perovskites is highlighted in MIT News and other popular press

Graduation: Dr. Geoffrey Supran
Fri, 04/29/2016

Congratulations to Geoffrey on successfully defending his PhD thesis on visible and infrared quantum dot LEDs!

Tata Center Student Spotlight: Richard Swartwout
Wed, 04/27/2016

ONE Lab PhD candidate and Tata Fellow Rich Swartwout is featured on the Tata Center website!

http://tatacenter.mit.edu/portfolio/scalable-design-and-manufacturing-of...

Graduation: Dr. Patrick Brown
Mon, 04/04/2016

Congratulations to Patrick on successfully defending his PhD thesis on energy level engineering in colloidal quantum dot solar cells!