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Some Like it Hot: Simulating Single Particle Excitations
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
On the way to Multiband Solar Cells
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
Computing a Textbook of Crystal Physics
Berkeley Lab scientists publish world’s largest database of piezoelectric properties Continue reading
Molecular Foundry User Meeting: A Macroscopic View of Nanoscience
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
Defects Through the Looking Glass
Berkeley Lab researchers characterize individual defects inside a bulk insulator using scanning tunneling microscopy. Continue reading
Sensitive and Specific: A New Way of Probing Electrolyte/Electrode Interfaces
Berkeley Lab researchers’ novel diffraction spectroscopy technique will provide insight to chemical processes at important battery interface. Continue reading
A Bright Light for Ultrafast Snapshots of Materials
Berkeley Lab researchers develop a bright, high-repetition-rate laser source in the extreme UV for studies of ultrafast materials dynamics Continue reading
Investigating Buried Interfaces in Ferroelectric Materials
Berkeley Lab researchers decode interface switching effects in ferroelectric memories Continue reading
Bigger Steps: Berkeley Lab Researchers Develop Algorithm to Make Simulation of Ultrafast Processes Possible
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
From the Bottom Up: Manipulating Nanoribbons at the Molecular Level
Berkeley Lab and UC Berkeley team engineers the shape and properties of nanoscale strips of graphene. Continue reading
