Category Archives: Berkeley Lab

On the way to Multiband Solar Cells

Posted on November 12, 2015 by rberkowitz

Wladek Walukiewicz of the Materials Sciences Division led the development of the first intermediate band solar cell to demonstrate charge transfer across all three band transitions – valence/intermediate, intermediate/conducting, and conducting/valence. These results open the door to high-efficiency solar cells and multicolor light emitters. Continue reading →

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Computing a Textbook of Crystal Physics

Posted on September 29, 2015 by rberkowitz

Berkeley Lab scientists publish world’s largest database of piezoelectric properties Continue reading →

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Molecular Foundry User Meeting: A Macroscopic View of Nanoscience

Posted on September 3, 2015 by rberkowitz

A US Department of Energy (DOE) user facility such as the Molecular Foundry provides perhaps one of the best examples of a community in which scientists from a range of disciplines have the opportunity to forge connections. Continue reading →

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Defects Through the Looking Glass

Posted on September 2, 2015 by rberkowitz

Berkeley Lab researchers characterize individual defects inside a bulk insulator using scanning tunneling microscopy. Continue reading →

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Sensitive and Specific: A New Way of Probing Electrolyte/Electrode Interfaces

Posted on July 8, 2015 by rberkowitz

Berkeley Lab researchers’ novel diffraction spectroscopy technique will provide insight to chemical processes at important battery interface. Continue reading →

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A Bright Light for Ultrafast Snapshots of Materials

Posted on June 11, 2015 by rberkowitz

Berkeley Lab researchers develop a bright, high-repetition-rate laser source in the extreme UV for studies of ultrafast materials dynamics Continue reading →

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Investigating Buried Interfaces in Ferroelectric Materials

Posted on June 10, 2015 by rberkowitz

Berkeley Lab researchers decode interface switching effects in ferroelectric memories Continue reading →

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Bigger Steps: Berkeley Lab Researchers Develop Algorithm to Make Simulation of Ultrafast Processes Possible

Posted on February 17, 2015 by rberkowitz

When electronic states in materials are excited during dynamic processes, interesting phenomena such as electrical charge transfer can take place on quadrillionth-of-a-second timescales. Until now, the computational cost has been prohibitive. Continue reading →

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From the Bottom Up: Manipulating Nanoribbons at the Molecular Level

Posted on January 12, 2015 by rberkowitz

Berkeley Lab and UC Berkeley team engineers the shape and properties of nanoscale strips of graphene. Continue reading →

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Outsmarting Thermodynamics in Self-assembly of Nanostructures

Posted on November 3, 2014 by rberkowitz

Berkeley Lab reports method for symmetry-breaking in feedback-driven self-assembly of optical metamaterials Continue reading →

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