Center for EXcitonics

We propose a comprehensive center on the science and applications of excitons. Excitons are the crucial intermediate for energy transduction in low cost, disordered semiconductors. We will answer the following questions: How are excitons created and destroyed? How can we control the migration of excitons? How do they move through interfaces and around defects? How can we control the transition between coherence and incoherence, or localization and delocalization? And finally, how can we build excitonic devices that address society’s needs for a new generation of energy technologies?