Tag Archives: Berkeley Lab

Speeding Toward Improved Hydrogen Fuel Production

Posted on December 26, 2020 by rberkowitz

A new nanomaterial helps obtain hydrogen from a liquid energy carrier, in a key step toward a stable and clean fuel source. Continue reading →

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Charges Cascading Along a Molecular Chain

Posted on November 14, 2020 by rberkowitz

Removing one charged molecule from a one-dimensional array causes the others to alternately turn ‘on’ or ‘off,’ paving the way for information transfer in tiny circuits. Continue reading →

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An Electrical Trigger Fires Single, Identical Photons

Posted on October 8, 2020 by rberkowitz

The precisely controlled photon source, made from an atomically thin semiconducting material, could aid the development of advanced quantum communication. Read more at Berkeley Lab…

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Toward an Ultrahigh Energy Density Capacitor

Posted on August 19, 2020 by rberkowitz

By introducing defects to a common material, Berkeley Lab researchers create a highly efficient capacitor with dramatically increased energy density. Continue reading →

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Some Like it Hot: Simulating Single Particle Excitations

Posted on December 17, 2015 by rberkowitz

Understanding and manipulating plasmons is important for their potential use in photovoltaics, solar cell water splitting, and sunlight-induced fuel production from CO2. Now, for the first time, the interplay between the plasmon mode and the single particle excitation within a small metal cluster has been simulated directly. Read more at Berkeley Lab…my last embargo-held press release written while full-time at LBNL, despite the byline! Continue reading →

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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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