<p>Hi everyone,</p>
<p>I am a senior mechanical engineering student and looking for a PHD program on nanophotovoltaics. But i do not know the universities where advanced research on this topic is being carried out. Can you help me about this issue.</p>
<p>Caltech. Checkout the Gray, Atwater, Haile, and Lewis groups. I’m not sure which of them does what, but I’ve heard these names mentioned in connection to photovoltaics. MIT and Berkeley probably have some people working on it as well.</p>
<p>To find more groups, find some published work on nanovoltaics in Science or something. Read the references section. Find those papers, and read their references sections. This should give you a large list of universities and labs working on nanophotovoltaics.</p>
<p>I’m an undergrad actually helping with research for photovoltaics, not nano, but still photovoltaics. The people I work with aren’t professors so I’m not sure how a PhD student would work with them but if you message me I could easily find more info for you.</p>
<p>If you’re looking into materials I wouldn’t get hung up on the idea of something having to be nano in order to be good. There’s still a lot of room above the bottom for great ideas. ;)</p>
<p>And from the list Dauntless gave you can scratch Haile off your list. She does fuel cell work, mostly with solid oxide fuel cells, I believe. I don’t know as a MechE or Materials person if you’d be able to work for Gray or Lewis (I think they’re both chemistry), but Atwater does do some stuff with photovoltaics, although his group is ginormous and he gets a lot of prospective students each year.</p>
<p>I am actually a double major student and my second major is physics. So i am more interested in physics and chemistry than mechanical engineering. That is why i am looking for a study concentrating on nano. I think of nano as a way of applying modern physics knowledge.</p>