Research Overview
CEI researchers are pushing the boundaries of light and matter to enable future clean energy technologies. Advances in fields like two-dimensional materials, nanoscale and quantum properties, imaging and spectroscopy will lay the foundation for tomorrow’s discoveries and devices.
Featured Researchers
Washington Research Foundation Innovation Assistant Professor of Clean Energy and Physics
Recent News
Mechanical engineers in sustainability
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Washington Clean Energy Testbeds announces 2025 Undergraduate Research Awards
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CEI awards Collaborative Seed Grants to boost AI data centers, EV charging infrastructure
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Washington Clean Energy Testbeds launches Undergraduate Research Awards
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Recent Publications
- Symmetry breaking in twisted double bilayer graphene (Nature Physics, September 2020) | UW News | Phys.org
- Inorganic nanopropeller puts a spin on catalysis (Journal of the American Chemical Society, November 2019)
- A proposal towards a scalable single-photon source to create a quantum simulator (ACS Photonics, November 2019)
- Switching 2D magnetic states via pressure tuning of layer stacking (Nature Materials, October 2019)
- Controlling three-dimensional optical fields via inverse Mie scattering (Science Advances, October 2019)
- First-ever visualizations of electrical gating effects on electronic structure could lead to longer-lasting devices (Nature, July 2019) | UW News