Harry A. Atwater

Research.com Recognitions

• 2026 - Research.com Materials Science in United States Leader Award
• 2025 - Research.com Materials Science in United States Leader Award
• 2022 - Research.com Materials Science in United States Leader Award
• 2019 - SPIE Fellow
• 2016 - David Adler Lectureship Award in the Field of Materials Physics, American Physical Society
• 2016 - Fellow of American Physical Society (APS) Citation For pioneering contributions to plasmonics and nanophotonics
• 2016 - David Adler Lectureship Award in the Field of Materials Physics
• 2015 - Member of the National Academy of Engineering For contributions to plasmonics.
• 2011 - Fellow of the Materials Research Society

Overview

Best Publications

• Plasmonics for improved photovoltaic devices

  Harry A. Atwater;Albert Polman

  7895
  Citations

• Local detection of electromagnetic energy transport below the diffraction limit in metal nanoparticle plasmon waveguides.

  Stefan A. Maier;Pieter G. Kik;Harry A. Atwater;Sheffer Meltzer

  2884
  Citations

• Plasmonics: Localization and guiding of electromagnetic energy in metal/dielectric structures

  Stefan A. Maier;Harry A. Atwater

  2469
  Citations

• Plasmonics—A Route to Nanoscale Optical Devices

  Stefan A. Maier;Mark L. Brongersma;Pieter G. Kik;Sheffer Meltzer

  2201
  Citations

• Broadband polarization-independent resonant light absorption using ultrathin plasmonic super absorbers

  Koray Aydin;Vivian E. Ferry;Ryan M. Briggs;Harry A. Atwater

  1864
  Citations

• Low-Loss Plasmonic Metamaterials

  Alexandra Boltasseva;Harry A. Atwater

  1777
  Citations

• Enhanced absorption and carrier collection in Si wire arrays for photovoltaic applications

  Michael D. Kelzenberg;Shannon W. Boettcher;Jan A. Petykiewicz;Daniel B. Turner-Evans

  1704
  Citations

• Plasmon slot waveguides: Towards chip-scale propagation with subwavelength-scale localization

  J. A. Dionne;L. A. Sweatlock;H. A. Atwater;A. Polman

  1418
  Citations

• Comparison of the device physics principles of planar and radial p-n junction nanorod solar cells

  Brendan M. Kayes;Harry A. Atwater;Nathan S. Lewis

  1387
  Citations

• The promise of plasmonics.

  Harry A. Atwater

  1359
  Citations

• Electromagnetic energy transfer and switching in nanoparticle chain arrays below the diffraction limit

  Mark L. Brongersma;John W. Hartman;Harry A. Atwater

  1176
  Citations

• Photonic design principles for ultrahigh-efficiency photovoltaics

  Albert Polman;Harry A. Atwater

  1089
  Citations

• A comparative technoeconomic analysis of renewable hydrogen production using solar energy

  Matthew R. Shaner;Harry A. Atwater;Nathan S. Lewis;Eric W. McFarland

  1052
  Citations

• Plasmonic nanoparticle enhanced light absorption in GaAs solar cells

  Keisuke Nakayama;Katsuaki Tanabe;Harry A. Atwater

  1028
  Citations

• Enhanced absorption and carrier collection in Si wire arrays for photovoltaic applications (Nature Materials (2010) 9 (239-244))

  Michael D. Kelzenberg;Shannon W. Boettcher;Jan A. Petykiewicz;Daniel B. Turner-Evans

  1008
  Citations

• Plasmonic Nanostructure Design for Efficient Light Coupling into Solar Cells

  Vivian E. Ferry;Luke A. Sweatlock;Domenico Pacifici;Harry A. Atwater

  974
  Citations

• Subwavelength integrated photonics.

  Pavel Cheben;Robert Halir;Jens H. Schmid;Harry A. Atwater

  951
  Citations

• Design Considerations for Plasmonic Photovoltaics

  Vivian E. Ferry;Jeremy N. Munday;Harry A. Atwater

  842
  Citations

• Theoretical predictions for hot-carrier generation from surface plasmon decay

  Ravishankar Sundararaman;Prineha Narang;Adam S. Jermyn;William A. Goddard

  822
  Citations

• Plasmonic color filters for CMOS image sensor applications.

  Sozo Yokogawa;Sozo Yokogawa;Stanley P. Burgos;Harry A. Atwater

  811
  Citations

• Light trapping in ultrathin plasmonic solar cells.

  Vivian E. Ferry;Marc A. Verschuuren;Hongbo B. T. Li;Ewold Verhagen

  806
  Citations