Photonics at Thermodynamic Limits (PTL)
Director
Jennifer Dionne
Lead Institution
Stanford University
Class
2018-2022
Mission
To achieve photonic operations at thermodynamic limits by controlling the flow of photons, electrons, and phonons in atomically-architected materials, enabling entirely new energy conversion systems.
Research Topics
optics, phonons, thermal conductivity, charge transport, materials and chemistry by design, mesostructured materials, synthesis (novel materials)
Systems Studied
Systems: semiconductor, metal, optoelectronic and metamaterial
Interfaces: solid/solid
Nanostructured: 0D, 1D, 2D, 3D
Experimental and Theoretical Methods
X-ray diffraction and scattering, X-ray spectroscopy, electron microscopy, scanning probe microscopy, near-field microscopy, ultrafast science, molecular dynamics (MD), density functional theory (DFT), monte carlo (MC), finite element methods, continuum modeling, machine learning
Partner Institutions
- California Institute of Technology
- Harvard University
- Stanford University
- University of California, Berkeley
- University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
