Two talks are accepted in our group:
MRS Spring 2019, April 21-26, Phoenix, AZ
IEEE PVSC 2019, June 16-21,2019, Chicago, IL

Congratulations to Liping and Angelique for the oral and poster award, respectively, in the trisite Materials Science Symposium (24 Jan, 2019 at UA including UAB, & UAH students). In total 3 oral and 3 poster prize. Good job!

A glovebox used for the thin film solar cells project was installed and ready to be used. Cheers.

The the support from the seed fund. 
www.feeding-and-powering-the-world.org/

The MTE Solar team lead by graduate students, Liping and Angelique has been grant the NSF ICorps award to prepare for the commercialization of their research. Congratulations to Liping and Angelique. 

 NSF Innovation Corps (I-Corps™)
The National Science Foundation (NSF) I-Corps program prepares scientists and engineers to extend their focus beyond the university laboratory, and accelerates the economic and societal benefits of NSF-funded, basic-research projects that are ready to move toward commercialization.

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Congratulation of Angelique to receive the 2018-2019 SREB-State Doctoral Scholars Award. 
www.sreb.org/doctoral-scholars-program  

Welcome Jovani, Jose, Joshua, Celab to join in Dr. Yan's lab during the summer. 

Congratulation of Liping's first paper gets accepted in Solar RRL. 

Angelique join Dr. Yan's lab for thin film solar cell research. She has a Master degree from MTE at UA. 

Dr. Feng Yan has received the 2018 Ralph E. Powe Junior Faculty Enhancement Award from ORAU for his research on Thin film solar cells. The Powe Award provides $5,000 in seed money for research by junior faculty at ORAU member institutions. 
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ORAU is a 121-member consortium of Ph.D.-granting academic institutions that brings together university faculty and students to collaborate on major scientific initiatives that help keep America on the leading edge of science and technology. For more, visit www.orau.org.

Melissa awarded the 2nd place for her poster presentations in the 2017 Materials Science Research Symposium held at the University of Alabama in Huntsville.. Cong!

Thanks for the Army Educational Outreach Program (​AEOP) site (www.usaeop.com)

Our AJA sputtering system was delivered. 

Our solar simulator donated from First Solar, Inc. Thanks First Solar!
Quantum efficiency was delivered.