Director(s):
Victor I. Klimov
Lead Institution:
Los Alamos National Laboratory
Mission:
To capitalize on recent advances in the science of how nanoparticles interact with light to design highly efficient materials for the conversion of sunlight into electricity.
Research Topics:
solar (photovoltaic), solar (fuels), solid state lighting, bio-inspired, electrodes - solar, defects, charge transport, materials and chemistry by design, optics, synthesis (novel materials), synthesis (scalable processing)
Materials Studied:
MATERIALS: semiconductor, wide band-gap semiconductor, metal, oxide, optoelectronic and metamaterial
INTERFACES: metal/semiconductor, metal/oxide, 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, surface science, laser diagnostics, ultrafast physics, molecular dynamics (MD), density functional theory (DFT), monte carlo (MC), quantum mechanics
Partner Institutions:
- University of California, Irvine
- University of Colorado
- Colorado School of Mines
- George Mason University
- Los Alamos National Laboratory
- University of Minnesota
- National Renewable Energy Laboratory
BES Staff Contacts:
Jeffrey L. Krause and
Gail McLean