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2018-2019 FIP Chambers Scholar Award Winner - Tomas Barraza

Congratulations to Tomas Barraza, a Ph.D. student in the Stiff-Roberts Research Group and one of the 2018-2019 FIP Chambers Scholar Award Winners! The prestigious John T. Chambers Scholar program in the Pratt School of Engineering at Duke University has...

Laser Evaporation Technology to Create New Solar Materials

Materials scientists at Duke University have developed a method to create hybrid thin-film materials that would otherwise be difficult or impossible to make. The technique could be the gateway to new generations of solar cells, light-emitting diodes and...

Congratulations to Graduates!

Congratulations to Duke graduates from the Stiff-Roberts Research Group: Maria Folgueras, Lauren Shum, and Bruna Liborio, all of whom participated in the 2017 Commencement Ceremony.

SENSOR Saturday Academy Floats the Eno River

There was some disappointment when the 3D printed boats designed to carry sensors into the Eno River didn’t float. But as any engineer will tell you, failure is just another teachable moment and an exercise in learning what doesn’t work. That was only...

Maria Folgueras Wins 1st Place in ECE Independent Study Poster Session

Maria Folgueras, a graduating senior, won 1st place (tied) in the Spring 2017 ECE Independent Study Poster Session. Her poster was entitled, "Characterization of Conducting Polymer Material Systems".

Prof. Stiff-Roberts Invited to 2016 EU-US Frontiers of Engineering Symposium

Prof. Stiff-Roberts was an invited speaker in the Integrated Photonics session of the 2016 EU-US Frontiers of Engineering Symposium in Helsinki, Finland. READ MORE...

Dr. Wangyao Ge Successfully Defends His Thesis

Dr. Ge has successfully defended his thesis "Organic Thin Films Deposited by Emulsion-Based, Resonant Infrared, Matrix-Assisted Pulsed Laser Evaporation: Fundamentals and Applications." He will remain with the group until his graduation in December.

Prof. Stiff-Roberts Receives 2016 Julian Abele Award for Graduate Mentor of the Year

The 31st Annual Julian Abele Awards ceremony was held on April 16, 2016 at the Treyburn Country Club in Durham, NC. Created to honor the memory of Julian Abele, who designed Duke University's West Campus, the Abele Awards are presented by the Black...

Lauren Shum Selected as Student Delegate to G(irls)20 Summit

Lauren Shum, a junior in the Stiff-Roberts Research Group, was recently recognized as the sole delegate for the United States to the G(irls)20 Summit, a student delegation to the G20 Summit that seeks to call attention to the importance of increasing...

Seed fund helps catalyze Duke energy research on materials, environment, policy

Research projects that examine energy materials, the water-energy-food nexus, and renewable energy policies will receive funding in 2016 from the Energy Initiative's Energy Research Seed Fund. Six projects involving 16 faculty members were selected for...

Duke’s materials science sparks a brighter energy future

Adrienne Stiff-Roberts, an associate professor of electrical and computer engineering, is using materials science to improve PV technology. She and her students have developed a technique to deposit both organic and inorganic molecules together to create...

Lauren Shum Wins 3rd Place in ECE Independent Study Poster Session

Lauren Shum, a junior, has won 3rd place (tie) in the Fall 2015 ECE Independent Study Poster Session. The title of her poster was, "CV characteristics of PCPDTBT thin-film organic PVs".

Waiting to Exhale: Using RIR-MAPLE to Monitor Glucose Levels

A startup company based on technology invented at Duke University is working to make blood glucose measurement as easy as exhalation—and end the need to draw blood. The idea is the brainchild of Ryan McCormick, a recent PhD graduate from Duke’s...

Novel materials can reduce solar power costs

While solar electricity generation has skyrocketed in the past five years, it still accounts for less than one percent of overall power generation in the United States. Materials costs for solar technologies have gone down, but not yet enough to be fully...