CID
![Center for Inverse Design](/-/media/bes/efrc/images/centers/cid-header.jpg?w=500&h=167&as=1&hash=4199A50A689FEF8149B103709AC8B96B54FF34179083BB9EB898FAECFED4B8B4)
Director(s):
Alex Zunger (8/2009 - 5/2011); William Tumas (6/2011 - 7/2014)Lead Institution:
National Renewable Energy Laboratory
Years:
2009-2014
Mission:
To revolutionize the discovery of new materials by design with tailored properties through the development and application of a novel inverse design approach powered by theory guiding experiment with an initial focus on solar energy conversion.
Research Topics:
solar (photovoltaic), solar (fuels), photosynthesis (natural and artificial), electrodes - solar, defects, spin dynamics, materials and chemistry by design, synthesis (novel materials)
Materials Studied:
MATERIALS: semiconductor, wide band-gap semiconductor, oxide, optoelectronic and metamaterial, transparent conductor
INTERFACES: metal/semiconductor, metal/oxide, semiconductor/semiconductor, solid/solid
NANOSTRUCTURED MATERIALS: 0D, 1D, 2D
Experimental and Theoretical Methods:
X-ray diffraction and scattering, X-ray spectroscopy, electron microscopy, scanning probe microscopy, surface science, density functional theory (DFT), monte carlo (MC), quantum mechanics, classical mechanics, multiscale modeling, next generation optimization methods, high-throughput screening methods, extreme scale computing
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Partner Institutions:
- Colorado School of Mines
- National Renewable Energy Laboratory
- Northwestern University
- Oregon State University
- SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory
- University of Colorado