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04/29/2020	PVIC teams with NREL and others to establish U.S. Manufacturing of Advanced Perovskites Consortium (US-MAP).
11/06/2019	PVIC awarded two DOE SETO projects for $5.7.
09/09/2019	Prof. Heben and Yan to co-Chair sessions at sessions at National Lab Day at UT on Oct. 10.
09/08/2019	PVIC to host Lesker U course on vacuum science and physical vapor deposition on Oct. 1.
08/29/2019	PVIC awarded $750,000 by DoE to study hydrogen production.
08/05/2019	PVIC awarded $7.4M grant from Air Force Research Laboratory.
08/01/2019	Professor Randy Ellingson named PVIC Endowed Chair.
07/31/2019	Dipendra Adhikari successfully defended his dissertation to earn his PhD in Physics.
07/24/2019	Prakash Uprety successfully defended his dissertation to earn his PhD in Physics.
06/17/2019	Kamala Khanal Subedi, Dhurba Sapkota, and Ramez Hosseinian Ahangharnejhad were nominated for Best Poster at PVSC 46.
05/10/2019	PVIC develop 23% efficient perovskite tandem minimodule.
04/07/2019	Kamala Khanal Subedi won First Solar Best Presentation in Solar and Renewable Energy at the 9th Midwest Graduate Research Symposium.
03/22/2019	PVIC has an open Postdoctoral Research Associate position in time resolved optical spectroscopy and PV materials.
03/22/2019	PVIC has an open position for a PV Technician.
03/15/2019	Professor Yanfa Yan and and his group's review article about perovskite structured materials for catalysis and photovoltaics is the Environmental & Environmental Science cover article.
11/07/2018	Professor Yanfa Yan and Dr. Xiaoming Wang discover a lead-free perovskite material that emits a white light.
10/24/2018	Indra Subedi successfully defended his dissertation to earn his PhD in Physics.
09/28/2018	UT will hosted the 2018 Ohio-region section of the APS Fall meeting Friday and Saturday September 28-29.
08/18/2018	Professor Michael Heben named Harold and Helen McMaster Endowed Chair.
07/17/2018	Ilke Celik successfully defended her dissertation to earn her PhD in Civil Engineering.
06/18/2018	UT recognizes Solar Energy, Water Quality and Sustainable Technologies as an Area of Research Excellence.
06/15/2018	Ilke Celik won the Best Student Paper Award at the 2018 World Conference on Photovoltaic Energy Conversion (WCPEC-7) at Waikoloa, Hawaii.
06/12/2018	Dr. Zhaoning Song, Research Assistant Professor in Dr. Yanfa Yan's research group received the Best Poster Award at the 2018 World Conference on Photovoltaic Energy Conversion (WCPEC-7) at Waikoloa, Hawaii.
06/11/2018	Biwas Subedi and Dr. Max Junda won Best Poster Award on collaborative work between Profs. Yan and Podraza’s research groups at the 2018 World Conference on Photovoltaic Energy Conversion (WCPEC-7) at Waikoloa, Hawaii.
04/25/2018	Professor Yanfa Yan received Outstanding Research Scholarship Award.
04/07/2018	Geethika Liyanage won Best Presentation in Solar and Renewable Energy at the 9th Midwest Graduate Research Symposium.
12/15/2017	Xinxuan Tan successfully defended her dissertation to earn her PhD in Physics.
12/01/2017	Suneth Watthage successfully defended his dissertation to earn his PhD in Physics.
11/15/2017	Kiran Ghimire successfully defended his dissertation to earn his PhD in Physics.
11/09/2017	Yue Yu successfully defended her dissertation to earn her PhD in Physics.
08/01/2017	A paper by PVIC researchers on the environmental analysis of perovskites and materials in tandem solar cells was name on of "2017 Energy and Environmental Science HOT articles"
07/21/2017	A paper coauthered by PVIC researchers titled "An organic-inorganic perovskite ferroelectric with large piezoelectric response" is published in Science
06/30/2017	Ilke Celik was a Best Student Presentation Award Finalist at 44th PVSC held in Washington, DC.
06/30/2017	Kiran Ghimire won Best Poster Award at 44th PVSC held in Washington, DC.
06/01/2017	A paper by PVIC researchers on the technoeconomic analysis of perovskite modules was name on of "2017 Energy and Environmental Science HOT articles"
05/23/2017	A paper by PVIC on Perovskite Solar-Cell Stability was highlighted in Advances in Engineering.
04/24/2017	PVIC work is highlighted by Solar Novus Today: All-Perovskite Tandem Solar Cell Sets Efficiency World Record
04/19/2017	work is reported by UT News: Bright Work: UT Research Shines, Sets Low-Bandgap Perovskite Solar Cell World Record For Efficiency
03/01/2017	Assistant Research Professor Dewei Zhao's new paper is published in Nature Energy
12/23/2016	A paper by PVIC is published in Materials Horizons and featured as the cover page.
12/15/2016	A paper by PVIC on probing photocurrent nonuniformities in the subcells of perovskite/tandem solar cells was highlighted in JPC Lett editorial, Spotlights: Volume 7, Issue 24.
12/08/2016	Alex Cimaroli successfully defended his dissertation to earn his PhD in Physics.
10/10/2016	A review paper by PVIC was highlighted in the October 2016 issue of SPIE Professional magazine .
09/28/2016	Weiqiang Liao and Dewei Zhao's JACS paper was highlighted by ACS New
08/24/2016	A paper by PVIC on Perovskite Solar-Cell Stability among top 5 most accessed papers in July 2016 issue of Advanced Energy Materials
07/27/2016	Zhaoning Song successfully defended his dissertation to earn his PhD in Physics.
08/26/2015	A paper by PVIC on perovskite phase diagram (Chem. Mater. 2015, 27, 4612–4619) is highlighted by UT News.
08/10/2015	Zhaoning Song won Newport Research Excellence Awards, SPIE Optics and Photonics 2015.
07/14/2015	A paper by PVIC is featured on the July 14 Chemistry of Materials cover.
06/18/2015	Zhaoning Song won the Best Student Paper Award at the 42nd IEEE PVSC conference

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