Ultra Materials for a Resilient, Smart Electricity Grid (ULTRA)
Director
Robert J. Nemanich
Lead Institution
Arizona State University
Class
2020-2024
Mission
To achieve extreme electrical properties and phenomena through fundamental understanding of ultra wide bandgap materials – including synthesis and impurity incorporation, electronic structure at interfaces, electron - phonon interactions at high fields, and phonon mediated thermal transport, which will enable a resilient, smart electricity grid.
Research Topics
phonons, thermal conductivity, defects, charge transport, microelectronics, materials and chemistry by design, synthesis (novel systems)
Systems Studied
Systems: semiconductor, wide band-gap semiconductor
Interfaces: inorganic/inorganic
Nanostructured: None
Experimental and Theoretical Methods
X-ray diffraction and scattering, X-ray spectroscopy, electron microscopy, surface science, molecular dynamics (MD), density functional theory (DFT), dynamical mean field theory (DMFT), monte carlo (MC), continuum modeling
Partner Institutions
- Arizona State University
- Cornell University
- Michigan State University
- Sandia National Laboratories
- Stanford University
- University of Alabama
- University of Bristol
- University of California, Riverside
