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WELCOME TO LEITE RESEARCH GROUP

Materials for Sustainability


We are engaged in fundamental and applied research in
(i) materials for energy harvesting and storage,
(ii) functional imaging of materials at the nanoscale, and
(iii) novel materials for photonics.
Navigate our site to find out more about our research and recent scientific findings.
For further details about our work, please contact Prof. Leite. 

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PEROVSKITE SOLAR CELLS

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SOLID STATE BATTERIES

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PHOTONICS

RECENT NEWS

May

2025

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Congrats to Declan for passing his Qualifying Exam!

May

2025

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Peifen's collaboration with Prof. Yu-Jung (Yuri) Lu from National Taiwan University is published in ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces. Stay tuned for a cover soon... Well done Peifen!

May

2025

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Marina gives an invited presentation at the 16th Pacific Rim Conference on Ceramic and Glass Technology including Glass & Optical Materials Division Meeting (GOMD 2025) conference, part of the American Ceramic Society.

Apr

2025

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Big congrats to Declan for being recognized by NSF with a honorable mention for the graduate research fellowship program (GRFP).

Apr

2025

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Marina presents two invited talks at the Spring MRS meeting in Seattle, one on nanospectroscopy of halide perovskites (as a distinguished invited speaker of symposium "Advanced Scanning Probe Microscopy") and another in the "Integrating AI-Assisted Computation and Experimentation for Autonomous Laboratories" symposium. Thank you to all organizers for the invitations!

FUNDERS

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Our research has been supported by: NSF, DARPA, Army Research Office, NIST

CONTACT

Thank you for your interest in our research. Get in touch with us for any job openings, questions, or comments regarding our work and publications.

1 Shields Ave, Davis, CA 95616

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