CEN
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Director(s):
P. Daniel Dapkus
Lead Institution:
University of Southern California
Years:
2009-2014
Mission:
To explore the light absorption and emission in organic and nanostructure materials and their hybrids for solar energy conversion and solid state lighting.
Research Topics:
solar (photovoltaic), solar (fuels), solid state lighting, 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, polymer, optoelectronic and metamaterial, transparent conductor
INTERFACES: organic/semiconductor, organic/oxide, organic/organic, organic/metal, metal/semiconductor, 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, near-field scanning optical microscopy, lithography, surface science, laser diagnostics, ultrafast physics, molecular dynamics (MD), quantum mechanics, continuum modeling, mesoscale modeling, finite element method, multiscale modeling, extreme scale computing
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Partner Institutions:
- University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
- University of Michigan
- University of Southern California
- University of Virginia