Center for Advanced Solar Photophysics (CASP)
Director
Victor Klimov
Lead Institution
Los Alamos National Laboratory
Year Established
2009
Mission
To exploit fundamental interactions between nanomaterials and light with the goal of producing disruptive advances in the efficiency of solar energy conversion.
Research Topics
solar (photovoltaic), defects, charge transport, optics, mesostructured materials, materials and chemistry by design, synthesis (novel materials), synthesis (self-assembly), synthesis (atomic layer deposition), synthesis (scalable processing)
Materials Studied
Materials: semiconductor, wide band-gap semiconductor, oxide, optoelectronic and metamaterial, transparent conductor
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, lithography, surface science, laser diagnostics, ultrafast physics, molecular dynamics (MD), density functional theory (DFT), monte carlo (MC), quantum mechanics, classical mechanics, mesoscale modeling, finite element method, multiscale modeling, next generation optimization methods
Partner Institutions
- George Mason University
- Los Alamos National Laboratory
- National Renewable Energy Laboratory
- University of California Irvine
- University of Chicago
- University of Minnesota
- University of Pennsylvania
