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Program Highlights for year 2016

Efficient and uniform doping of zinc oxide nanocrystals via plasma synthesis

In solution-based synthesis, often doping efficiencies are low and dopants are excluded from the nanocrystals’ central cores. The research team developed a fundamentally different plasma-based process for synthesizing aluminum-doped zinc oxide nanocrystals.

How many electrons make a nanocrystal film metallic?

Understanding the transport of electrons in films of touching nanocrystals is of central importance for their future use in printed electronic devices such as light emitting diodes, solar cells, or transistors. The research team developed a new theory that describes the transition of the electron conduction in doped nanocrystal films from a semiconducting to a metallic behavior.

Pulse Inverse Spin-Hall Effect in Organic Semiconductors

Objective: Estimate spin-orbit coupling in in a wide variety of organic semiconductors. 

Choreographing a Whirling Dervish

How spinning electrons communicate across interfaces

 

Tip-based functionalization of Group IV graphenes

IRG-2 has established the controlled tip-based absorption (writing) and desorption (deleting) of hydrogen on C/Si/Ge/Sn graphene materials at atomic len

The Materials Genome Gets Hot!

The goal of this seed project is to bring first-principles theory closer to experimental reality by accounting for the finite temperature effects that are essential for describing the behavior of “r

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