SSLS
Director(s):
Jerry Simmons (8/2009 - 10/2011); Michael E. Coltrin (11/2011 - 7/2014)
Lead Institution:
Sandia National Laboratories
Years:
2009-2014
Mission:
To explore energy conversion in tailored photonic structures and materials to enable revolutionary breakthroughs in the efficiency and performance of light emitting diode (LED)-based lighting; to improve energy-efficiency in the way we light our homes and offices, which currently accounts for 20 percent of the Nation’s electrical energy use. Solid-state lighting has the potential to cut that energy consumption in half, or even more.
Research Topics:
solar (photovoltaic), solid state lighting, phonons, materials and chemistry by design, optics, synthesis (novel materials)
Materials Studied:
MATERIALS: semiconductor, wide band-gap semiconductor, rare earth elements, optoelectronic and metamaterial
INTERFACES: semiconductor/semiconductor
NANOSTRUCTURED MATERIALS: 0D, 1D, 2D, 3D
Experimental and Theoretical Methods:
X-ray diffraction and scattering, scanning probe microscopy, lithography, ultrafast physics, density functional theory (DFT), quantum mechanics, mesoscale modeling, multiscale modeling
Partner Institutions:
- California Institute of Technology
- University of California, Merced
- University of California, Santa Barbara
- Los Alamos National Laboratory
- University of New Mexico
- Northwestern University
- Philips Lumileds Lighting
- Sandia National Laboratories
