CEEM
Director(s):
John Bowers
Lead Institution:
University of California, Santa Barbara
Years:
2009-2014
Mission:
To discover and develop materials that control the interactions among light, electricity, and heat at the nanoscale for improved solar energy conversion, solid-state lighting, and conversion of heat into electricity.
Research Topics:
solar (photovoltaic), solid state lighting, phonons, thermoelectric, bio-inspired, energy storage (including batteries and capacitors), electrodes - solar, defects, charge transport, materials and chemistry by design, optics, synthesis (novel materials), synthesis (self-assembly), synthesis (scalable processing)
Materials Studied:
MATERIALS: semiconductor, organic semiconductor, wide band-gap semiconductor, metal, oxide, polymer, rare earth elements, optoelectronic and metamaterial, transparent conductor
INTERFACES: organic/semiconductor, organic/oxide, organic/organic, organic/metal, metal/semiconductor, metal/oxide, semiconductor/semiconductor, solid/solid
NANOSTRUCTURED MATERIALS: 0D, 1D, 2D, 3D, nanocomposites
Experimental and Theoretical Methods:
X-ray diffraction and scattering, electron microscopy, scanning probe microscopy, lithography, surface science, neutron diffraction and scattering, ultrafast physics, density functional theory (DFT), quantum mechanics
Partner Institutions:
- University of California, Santa Barbara
- Purdue University
- Los Alamos National Laboratory
- National Renewable Energy Laboratory
