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• 9.1 Ranking Gray: ADEPT

  ADEPT

  Type	Tools
  Contributor(s)	J. L. Gray, Michael McLennan
  Date	01 May. 2007
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  Simulates 1D heterostructures, including solar cells

Online Presentations

• 8.1 Ranking Ringgenberg: Nanoscience at Work: Creating ...

  Nanoscience at Work: Creating Energy from Sunlight

  Type	Online Presentations
  Contributor(s)	Joe Ringgenberg, Jeffrey B. Neaton, Jeffrey C Grossman
  Date	13 Jun. 2007
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  Professor Paul Alivisatos talks about the Helios Project for the 'Science at the Theater' series at the Berkeley Repertory Theater in Berkeley, California on May 14, 2007. He discusses how Helios Project researchers will use nanotechnology in the efficient capture of sunlight and its conversion to ...

• 8.1 Ranking Dresselhaus: The Potential of Nanostructured ...

  The Potential of Nanostructured Materials to Address the Challenge of a Sustainable Energy Resource

  Type	Online Presentations
  Contributor(s)	Mildred S. Dresselhaus
  Date	14 Feb. 2008
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  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 will be needed for energy production and storage and for its conversion from one form to another. These ...

• 7.7 Ranking Ringgenberg: The Energy Problem: What the ...

  The Energy Problem: What the Helios Project Can Do About It

  Type	Online Presentations
  Contributor(s)	Joe Ringgenberg, Jeffrey B. Neaton, Jeffrey C Grossman
  Date	14 Jun. 2007
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  Nobel Prize winner Steven Chu talks about the Helios Project for the 'Science at the Theater' series at the Berkeley Repertory Theater in Berkeley, California on April 23, 2007. He propses an aggressive research program to transform the existing and future energy systems of the world away from ...

• 7.7 Ranking McEuen: Nano Carbon: From ballistic ...

  Nano Carbon: From ballistic transistors to atomic drumheads

  Type	Online Presentations
  Contributor(s)	Paul L. McEuen
  Date	14 May. 2008
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  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 impenetrable membrane a single atom thick. Rolled up into a nanometer-diameter cylinder--a carbon ...

• 7.1 Ranking Yu: In Search of the Perfect ...

  In Search of the Perfect Semiconductor Photon Detector

  Type	Online Presentations
  Contributor(s)	Peter Y. Yu
  Date	19 May. 2008
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  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 semiconductors , such as Si and Ge. However, they are by no means perfect in tackling some of the ...

• 5.8 Ranking Escobedo: CdTe/CdS-BASED PHOTODIODE ARRAYS ...

  CdTe/CdS-BASED PHOTODIODE ARRAYS VIA SELECTIVE-AREA, CLOSE-SPACED SUBLIMATION

  Type	Online Presentations
  Contributor(s)	Arev Gabriel Escobedo
  Date	08 Dec. 2006
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  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 to fabricate the photodiode arrays with the feature size ranging from 1 to 2 micrometers on a pitch of ...

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