Center for Excitonics (CE)
Director
Marc Baldo
Lead Institution
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Year Established
2009
Mission
To supersede traditional electronics with devices that use excitonics to mediate the flow of energy.
Research Topics
solar (photovoltaic), solid state lighting, photosynthesis (natural and artificial), charge transport, spin dynamics, spintronics, optics, mesostructured materials, materials and chemistry by design
Materials Studied
Materials: semiconductor, organic semiconductor, wide band-gap semiconductor, polymer, rare earth elements, optoelectronic and metamaterial, transparent conductor
Interfaces: organic/semiconductor, organic/oxide, semiconductor/semiconductor
Nanostructured Materials: 0D, 1D, 2D, 3D
Experimental and Theoretical Methods
lithography, molecular dynamics (MD), density functional theory (DFT), monte carlo (MC), quantum mechanics, mesoscale modeling, high-throughput screening methods
Partner Institutions
- Brookhaven National Laboratory
- Harvard University
- Lincoln Laboratory
- Massachusetts Institute of Technology
