CEEM

Center for Energy Efficient Materials (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


BES Staff Contact:

Chris Fecko