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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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PHOTONICS

RECENT NEWS

Apr

2026

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Marina presents 2 invited talks at the American Ceramics Society Spring Meeting. Thank you to all organizers for a great meeting!

Mar

2026

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Marina delivers seminars at UC San Diego and UC Berkeley, as part of her 2026 IEEE Photonics Lectureship Award.

Mar

2026

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Mansha's paper about the reversible lattice distortion of halide perovskites is published in Adv. Materials (see paper here), and highlighted by few news stories: Optics+Photonics News from Optica, Science Daily, EurekAlert! from AAAS, SciTechDaily, and UC Davis. Nicely done Mansha!

Jan

2026

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Marina presents an invited talk at the SPIE Photonics West meeting in San Francisco. Thanks Karin (Univ. of Ottawa), for the kind invitation!

Jan

2026

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Hannah's invited review article on atomic force microscopy applied to halide perovskites is published in The Journal of Materials Research. Check the paper here.

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.

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