OPV: Synthesis and Nanostructure Control of All-conjugated Diblock Copolymers for the Application of Organic Electronic Devices

31 Jan 2011 | Online Presentations | Contributor(s): Yue Zhang

This presentation was part of the "Organic Photovoltaics: Experiment and Theory" workshop at the 2010 Users' Meeting of the Molecular Foundry and the National Center for Electron Microscopy, both DOE-funded Research Centers at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory.

OPV: Conjugated Polymer Design and Chemistry for Organic Photovoltaics

31 Jan 2011 | Online Presentations | Contributor(s): Claire H Woo

This presentation was part of the "Organic Photovoltaics: Experiment and Theory" workshop at the 2010 Users' Meeting of the Molecular Foundry and the National Center for Electron Microscopy, both DOE-funded Research Centers at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory.

OPV: Morphology and Interfaces in Organic Photovoltaics

31 Jan 2011 | Online Presentations | Contributor(s): Michael Chabinyc

This presentation was part of the "Organic Photovoltaics: Experiment and Theory" workshop at the 2010 Users' Meeting of the Molecular Foundry and the National Center for Electron Microscopy, both DOE-funded Research Centers at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory.

OPV: Time Domain Ab Initio Studies of Organic-Inorganic Composites for Solar Cells

31 Jan 2011 | Online Presentations | Contributor(s): Oleg Prezhdo

This presentation was part of the "Organic Photovoltaics: Experiment and Theory" workshop at the 2010 Users' Meeting of the Molecular Foundry and the National Center for Electron Microscopy, both DOE-funded Research Centers at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory.

Nano*High: The Birth and Early Evolution of the Universe

31 Jan 2011 | Online Presentations | Contributor(s): Alex Filippenko

Alex Filippenko is a Professor of Astronomy at UC Berkeley. Nano*High The Molecular Foundry Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory Nano*High gratefully acknowledges QB3, the California Institute for Quantitative Biosciences for providing the lecture hall on the UC Berkeley campus.

Nano*High: Got Plastic? What Saran Wrap & Renewable Energy Generation Have in Common

31 Jan 2011 | Online Presentations | Contributor(s): Rachel Segalman, Eric Isaacs, Jeffrey B. Neaton

Rachel Segalman is an Associate Professor of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering at UC Berkeley and a Faculty Scientist at LBNL. Nano*High The Molecular Foundry Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory Nano*High gratefully acknowledges QB3, the California Institute for Quantitative Biosciences …

Nano*High: Looking for the Good News in Your Genome: Personalized Medicine--Science and Ethics

31 Jan 2011 | Online Presentations | Contributor(s): Jasper Rine

Jasper Rine is a Howard Hughes Professor and Professor of Genetics, Genomics and Development at UC Berkeley. Nano*High The Molecular Foundry Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory Nano*High gratefully acknowledges QB3, the California Institute for Quantitative Biosciences for providing the …

Science at the Theater: Trading Carbon: Can cookstoves light the way?

31 Jan 2011 | Online Presentations | Contributor(s): Ashok Gadgil, Kayje Booker, Adam Rausch

Learn how families in Africa, using stoves designed by Berkeley Lab, are at the forefront of global carbon reduction.

Science at the Theater: Cool Cities, Cool Planet

31 Jan 2011 | Online Presentations | Contributor(s): Arthur Rosenfeld, Melvin Pomerantz, Ronnen Levinson

Berkeley Lab scientists discuss how white roofs can cool your building, your city ... and our planet, and the role of the other carbon -- black carbon -- in global warming.

Science at the Theater: Putting Carbon in its Place

31 Jan 2011 | Online Presentations | Contributor(s): Ian Walker, Cindy Regnier, Eric Masanet

Berkeley Lab scientists reveal the latest research on how to reduce your carbon footprint at home, work, and when you shop. Learn how even small choices can have a big impact.

OPV: First Principles Studies of the Electronic Structure of Organic Solids and Interfaces

31 Jan 2011 | Online Presentations | Contributor(s): Sahar Sharifzadeh

This presentation was part of the "Organic Photovoltaics: Experiment and Theory" workshop at the 2010 Users' Meeting of the Molecular Foundry and the National Center for Electron Microscopy, both DOE-funded Research Centers at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory.

Organic Photovoltaics: Experiment and Theory

31 Jan 2011 | Workshops | Contributor(s): Biwu Ma, Eric Isaacs, Jeffrey B. Neaton

This workshop at the 2010 Users' Meeting of the Molecular Foundry and the National Center for Electron Microscopy, both DOE-funded Research Centers at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, explored the challenges, opportunities, and recent progress in organic photovoltaics. Dr. Jeffrey B. Neaton …

OPV: Large Scale Ab Initio Simulation for Charge Transport in Disordered Organic Systems

31 Jan 2011 | Online Presentations | Contributor(s): Lin-Wang Wang

This presentation was part of the "Organic Photovoltaics: Experiment and Theory" workshop at the 2010 Users' Meeting of the Molecular Foundry and the National Center for Electron Microscopy, both DOE-funded Research Centers at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory.

Molecular Foundry Photonics Toolkit

13 May 2010 | Tools | Contributor(s): Alexander S McLeod, P. James Schuck, Jeffrey B. Neaton

Simulate realistic 1, 2, or 3-dimension nano-optical systems using the FDTD method.

OPV: Untangling the Essence of Bulk Heterostructure Organic Solar Cells: Why the Complex Need not be Complicated

21 Jan 2011 | Online Presentations | Contributor(s): Muhammad Alam

This presentation was part of the "Organic Photovoltaics: Experiment and Theory" workshop at the 2010 Users' Meeting of the Molecular Foundry and the National Center for Electron Microscopy, both DOE-funded Research Centers at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory.

Berkeley GW

27 Sep 2009 | Tools | Contributor(s): Alexander S McLeod, Peter Doak, Sahar Sharifzadeh, Jeffrey B. Neaton

This is an educational tool that illustrates the calculation of the electronic structure of materials using many-body perturbation theory within the GW approximation

Nano*High: Nature's Nasty Nanomachines: How Viruses Work, and How We Can Stop Them

27 Jan 2010 | Online Presentations | Contributor(s): Carolyn R. Bertozzi

The birth and growth of nanotechnology is only a few decades old, whereas Nature has been building nano-machines for millennia. Viruses are marvels of natural nano-engineering, but can pose a problem for human health. To combat these nano-machines, scientists are turning to recent developments …

Nano*High: X-rays, Lasers, and Molecular Movies

27 Jan 2010 | Online Presentations | Contributor(s): Roger W. Falcone

X-ray imaging is an excellent method to make visible what would normally be invisible - who hasn't had an X-ray at the doctor or dentist's office before? At the Lawrence Berkeley National Lab, the Advanced Light Source is a gigantic X-ray imaging machine. Dr. Roger Falcone discusses X-ray …

Nano*High: Nanoscience for High School Students

02 Feb 2010 | Series | Contributor(s): Alexander S McLeod, Jeffrey B. Neaton, Jeffrey C Grossman

The Materials Sciences Division at the University of California's Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory invites you and your students to Nano*High, a series of free Saturday morning lectures by UC Berkeley professors and LBNL senior scientists conducting research from nanoscience to molecular …

nanoHUB PhotoVoltaics Reference Zone

27 Jan 2010 | Teaching Materials | Contributor(s): Alexander S McLeod, Jeffrey B. Neaton, Jeffrey C Grossman

Need information on the science of photovoltaics and solar cell technology? Find it here! The nanoHUB PhotoVoltaics Reference Zone is the right destination for finding general information about photovoltaic solar cell science and technology, as well as for viewing news articles and getting access …

SIESTA

05 Mar 2008 | Tools | Contributor(s): Lucas Wagner, Jeffrey C Grossman, Joe Ringgenberg, daniel richards, Alexander S McLeod, Eric Isaacs, Jeffrey B. Neaton

Use SIESTA to perform electronic structure calculations

Nano-Plasmonic Bowtie Antenna Simulator

18 Mar 2008 | Tools | Contributor(s): Alexander S McLeod, Jeffrey B. Neaton, P. James Schuck, Eugene Song, Graham Chapman

A tool for simulating the near-field enhancement effects of nano-scale bowtie antennae.

CNT Heterojunction Modeler

20 Mar 2008 | Tools | Contributor(s): Joe Ringgenberg, Joydeep Bhattacharjee, Jeffrey B. Neaton, Jeffrey C Grossman

Study the structure and electronic properties of carbon nanotubes with linear heterojunctions.

Computational Nanoscience, Lecture 26: Life Beyond DFT -- Computational Methods for Electron Correlations, Excitations, and Tunneling Transport

16 May 2008 | Teaching Materials | Contributor(s): Jeffrey B. Neaton

In this lecture, we provide a brief introduction to "beyond DFT" methods for studying excited state properties, optical properties, and transport properties. We discuss how the GW approximation to the self-energy corrects the quasiparticle excitations energies predicted by Kohn-Sham DFT. For …

Excellence in Computer Simulation

19 Dec 2007 | Workshops | Contributor(s): Mark Lundstrom, Jeffrey B. Neaton, Jeffrey C Grossman

Computational science is frequently labeled as a third branch of science - equal in standing with theory and experiment, and computational engineering is now an essential component of technology development and manufacturing. The successes of computational science and engineering (CSE) over the …