Center for Functional Nanomaterials Seminar

"Electron Wave Function Engineering and Design of the Dielectric Response on the Nanoscale"

Presented by Ilya Grigorenko, Penn State University

Friday, December 3, 2010, 10:00 am — Bldg. 735 - Conf Rm B

Quantum optimal design of nanostructured materials is a modern approach aimed to reproduce the desired physical properties through the control of their electronic eigenenergies and eigenfunctions.

This can be achieved by an iterative optimization of the effective electron trapping potential. By using microscopic simulations of the linear response of the system, combined with efficient optimization procedures, we provide optimized designs for some particular applications, such as single molecule detectors and high density energy storage in nanocapacitors.

We have demonstrated that optimal design can improve the target functionality (e.g., the detector sensitivity) up to three orders of magnitude.

Hosted by: Oleg Gang

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