Director(s):
Harry Atwater
Lead Institution:
California Institute of Technology
Mission:
To tailor the morphology, complex dielectric structure, and electronic properties of matter to sculpt the flow of sunlight, enabling light conversion to electrical and chemical energy with unprecedented efficiency.
Research Topics:
solar (photovoltaic), solid state lighting, phonons, thermal conductivity, electrodes - solar, materials and chemistry by design, optics, synthesis (novel materials), synthesis (self-assembly)
Materials Studied:
MATERIALS: semiconductor, wide band-gap semiconductor, metal, oxide, polymer, rare earth elements, porous, optoelectronic and metamaterial
NANOSTRUCTURED MATERIALS: 0D, 1D, 2D, 3D
Experimental and Theoretical Methods:
scanning probe microscopy, near-field scanning optical microscopy, lithography, quantum mechanics, continuum modeling, mesoscale modeling, finite element method, multiscale modeling
Partner Institutions:
- California Institute of Technology
- Harvard University
- University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
- Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
BES Staff Contacts:
Jeffrey L. Krause and
Gail McLean