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Renewable Solar Energy: Has the Sun Finally Risen on Photovoltaics?
10 Apr 2009 | Online Presentations | Contributor(s): Mark R. Pinto
After a review of the overall renewable energy landscape,including the central role of economics, we present here the case thatPV is on the verge of becoming a major source of electrical...
https://nanohub.org/resources/6332
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In Search of the Perfect Semiconductor Photon Detector
19 May 2008 | Online Presentations | Contributor(s): Peter Y. Yu
Photon detectors have many important applications, such as in heat sensing, digital cameras, solar cells and x-ray and gamma-ray detection. So far, the most common detectors are based on elemental...
https://nanohub.org/resources/4397
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Nano Carbon: From ballistic transistors to atomic drumheads
14 May 2008 | Online Presentations | Contributor(s): Paul L. McEuen
Carbon takes many forms, from precious diamonds to lowly graphite. Surprisingly, it is the latter that is the most prized by nano physicists. Graphene, a single layer of graphite, can serve as an...
https://nanohub.org/resources/4398
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The Potential of Nanostructured Materials to Address the Challenge of a Sustainable Energy Resource
14 Feb 2008 | Online Presentations | Contributor(s): Mildred S. Dresselhaus
An overview is presented on the grand challenges to the science community in the next few decades in meeting global energy needs for the 21st century. Major advances in our present capabilities...
https://nanohub.org/resources/3996
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Semiconductor Device Education Material
28 Jan 2008 | Teaching Materials | Contributor(s): Gerhard Klimeck
This page has moved to "a Wiki page format"When we hear the words, semiconductor device, we may think first of the transistors in PCs or video game consoles, but transistors are the basic...
https://nanohub.org/resources/edu_semi
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The Helios Talks
25 Sep 2007 | Series | Contributor(s): Joe Ringgenberg, Jeffrey B. Neaton, Jeffrey C Grossman
The energy problem is one of the most important issues that science and technology has to solve.
The Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory’s Helios Project concentrates on renewable...
https://nanohub.org/resources/3266
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The Energy Problem: What the Helios Project Can Do About It
13 Jun 2007 | Online Presentations | Contributor(s): Steven Chu
Nobel Prize winner Steven Chu talks about the Helios Project for the 2007 'Science at the Theater' series at Berkeley Repertory Theater in Berkeley, California. He proposes an aggressive research...
https://nanohub.org/resources/2802
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Nanoscience at Work: Creating Energy from Sunlight
13 Jun 2007 | Online Presentations | Contributor(s): A. Paul Alivisatos
Professor Paul Alivisatos introduces the Helios Project for the 2007 'Science at the Theater' series at Berkeley Repertory Theater in Berkeley, California. He discusses how Helios Project...
https://nanohub.org/resources/2800
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Adept
01 May 2007 | Tools | Contributor(s): J. L. Gray, Michael McLennan
Simulates 1D heterostructures, including solar cells
https://nanohub.org/resources/adept
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CdTe/CdS-BASED PHOTODIODE ARRAYS VIA SELECTIVE-AREA, CLOSE-SPACED SUBLIMATION
07 Dec 2006 | Online Presentations | Contributor(s): Arev Gabriel Escobedo
In this talk, the deposition of dense arrays of CdTe/CdS photodiodes, via close-spaced sublimation, is presented for the first time. The previously reported ordered polycrystalline method was used...
https://nanohub.org/resources/2078