We are excited to share our new article in Joule on a new passive approach to desalination: radiative cooling-driven freezing desalination (click on the text to the left to view the article).

We are happy to share that we’ve received a NSF CAREER grant to pursue the dynamic photonic control of thermal emission. Many thanks to NSF, and all lab members for their support and work on this topic.

We have two new papers in Nano Letters in collaboration with the Bargatin and Jariwala groups: https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acs.nanolett.1c03273 (led by John Brewer from our group) and https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acs.nanolett.1c03272 (led by Matthew Campbell with the Bargatin group). Funded by the Breakthrough Starshot initiative.

We are grateful and excited to work on an exciting new research direction in electroluminescent cooling with DARPA support over the next few years. More information here: https://samueli.ucla.edu/materials-scientist-receives-darpa-young-faculty-award-to-advance-cooling-technologies/

Congratulations to lead author Chris Yeung and the rest of the machine learning team on our new paper in Advanced Optical Materials on a generative deep learning-based approach to multi-photonics-structure class inverse design: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/adom.202100548

We’re happy to share our new paper on broadband directional control of thermal emission, published today in Science! Available here: https://science.sciencemag.org/content/372/6540/393

We have a new publication in Nanophotonics entitled “Multiplexed supercell metasurface design and optimization with tandem residual networks” – available here. Congratulations to the whole team!

In work driven by Bin Zhao, a visiting Ph.D. student to the group, we show that a different strategy to optimizing the operational conditions of thermoelectric generators driven by radiative cooling and improve their output substantially, even with today’s TEGs. Available here.

Aaswath was profiled in The Washington Post for his work on radiative cooling: https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-solutions/2020/10/07/radiative-cooling-climate-change/

New work by our machine learning team, now on arXiv! https://arxiv.org/abs/2008.00587