CEN

Director(s):

P. Daniel Dapkus

Lead Institution:

University of Southern California

Years:

2009-2014

Mission:

To explore the light absorption and emission in organic and nanostructure materials and their hybrids for solar energy conversion and solid state lighting.

Research Topics:

solar (photovoltaic), solar (fuels), solid state lighting, 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, polymer, optoelectronic and metamaterial, transparent conductor

INTERFACES: organic/semiconductor, organic/oxide, organic/organic, organic/metal, metal/semiconductor, semiconductor/semiconductor, liquid/solid, solid/solid

NANOSTRUCTURED MATERIALS: 0D, 1D, 2D, 3D, nanocomposites

Experimental and Theoretical Methods:

X-ray diffraction and scattering, electron microscopy, scanning probe microscopy, near-field scanning optical microscopy, lithography, surface science, laser diagnostics, ultrafast physics, molecular dynamics (MD), quantum mechanics, continuum modeling, mesoscale modeling, finite element method, multiscale modeling, extreme scale computing