A solar energy scientist at the U.S. Department of Energy’s National Renewable Energy Laboratory who has done pioneering and breakthrough work on thin films and nanostructures has been elected a fellow of the American Physical Society (APS). NREL Research Fellow Howard Branz was elected an APS fellow for “seminal research on thin film silicon: defects, metastability, growth processes, nano-structuring and solar cells,” said James Riordan, spokesman for the APS. Each year, fewer than one-h...