Events: Seminar Series
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2017-2018 Seminar Series
| DATE | SPEAKER | TITLE | TIME/LOCATION |
| May 17, 2018 | Luis Campos Department of Chemistry, Columbia University |
Materials Design for Third Generation Singlet Fission Solar Cells | 3pm/Pfizer Lecture Hall- Harvard University |
| April 17, 2018 | Jean-Luc Bredas Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Georgia Tech |
Polymer-Acceptor Bulk Heterojunction Solar Cells: From Chemical Structure to Packing and Efficiency | 2:45pm/36-428 |
| March 6, 2018 | Alessandro Troisi University of Liverpool/Department of Chemistry |
Less is more: model reduction for exciton and charge transport in molecular materials | 4:30pm/36-428 |
| January 18, 2018 | Kyle Frohna University of Cambridge, UK, Visiting Researcher |
Origins of Delayed Recombination and Halide Segregation in Metal Halide Perovskites* | 12 noon/13-3038 |
| December 12, 2017 | Jillian Dempsey University of North Carolina/Department of Chemistry |
Proton-Coupled Electron Transfer Processes Underpinning the Production of Renewable Fuels | 4:30pm/36-428 |
| November 28, 2017 | Aron Walsh Department of Materials, Imperial College London |
Exciting Metal-organic Frameworks: Electrons, Phonons, and Photons | 4:30pm/34-401A |
| November 22, 2017 | Michael Saliba École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) Station 6, 1015 Lausanne |
Historic Overview and Design Principles for Optoelectronic Perovskite Materials* | 4:30pm/35-520 |
| November 17, 2017 | Eugene Katz Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Israel/ Department for Solar Energy and Environmental Physics |
How to assess operational stability of perovskite solar cells with reversible degradation?* | 12 noon/34-401B |
| November 2, 2017 | Robert Alicki Gdansk University/ Theoretical and Mathematical Physics |
Self-oscillations in Photovoltaic, Thermoelectric and Fuel Cells | 3 pm/36-428 |
| November 1, 2017 | Jose Dario Perea Friedrich Alexander Universität (Germany), Engineering, Visiting Student in the Aspuru-Guzik Group at Harvard |
Predicting the Microstructure Stability in Photovoltaic Polymer-Fullerene Blends Using Figure of Merit* | 4:30pm/35-520 |
| October 4, 2017 | Edison Castro Department of Chemistry, University of Texas, El Paso |
Improved Performance and Stability of Inverted Planar Perovskite Solar Cells Using Fullerene Layers* | 12 noon/von Hippel rm: 13-2137 |
2016-2017 Seminar Series
| DATE | SPEAKER | TITLE | TIME/LOCATION |
| May 17, 2017 | Axel Palmstrom Department of Chemical Engineering, Stanford University |
Perovskite Tandems: A Path Towards Stable 27% Efficiencies* | 12 noon/RLE Haus room: 36-428 |
| May 16, 2017 | Ming Lee Tang University of California, Riverside/ Department of Chemistry, and Material Science and Engineering |
A hybrid molecular-nanocrystal platform for photon upconversion | 4:30pm/36-428 |
| May 9, 2017 | David Snoke University of Pittsburgh, Department of Chemistry |
Superfluids of Light | 4:30pm/36-438 RLE Haus Rm |
| May 2, 2017 | David Vanden Bout University of Texas, Department of Chemistry |
Spectroscopy of single conjugated polymers and aggregates | 4:30pm/36-428 RLE Haus Room |
| April 25, 2017 | Chihaya Adachi Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry Graduate School of Engineering, Kyushu University |
Exciton management in OLEDs and future organic laser diodes | 4:30pm/36-428 |
| February 10, 2017 | Christoph J. Brabec i-MEET, Department of Material Science, Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen-Nurnberg, ZAE Bayern e.V., Renewable Energies, Erlangen, D- 91058 Germany |
High Throughput Material and Processing Concepts for Printed Photovoltaics | 4:15 PM at Pfizer Lecture Hall, Harvard University, 12 Oxford Street, Cambridge, MA 02138 |
| February 7, 2017 | Maksym Kovalenko ETH Zurich, Department of Chemistry |
Nano- and single-crystals of lead halide perovskites: from bright light emission to hard radiation detection | 4:30pm/36-428 RLE Haus Room |
| December 21, 2016 | Eugene A. Katz Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Israel/Dept. of Solar Energy and Environmental Physics/ J. Blaustein Institutes for Desert Research, Ilse-Katz Institute for Nanoscale Science and Technology |
Accelerated testing of organic and perovskite photovoltaics using concentrated sunlight* | 10 am/36-462 |
| December 13, 2016 | Libai Huang Purdue University, Department of Physical Chemistry |
Ultrafast Nanoscopy of Energy and Charge Transport | 4:30pm/36-428 |
| November 29, 2016 | George Schatz Northwestern University, Department of Chemistry |
Plasmons, Excitons and Theory | 4:30 pm/36-428 |
| November 28, 2016 | Ted Sargent University of Toronto, Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science |
Materials and devices for the renewable synthesis of fuels and feedstocks | 4pm/ 6-120 |
| November 2, 2016 | Juan-Pablo Correa-Baena Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Mechanical Engineering |
Progress of Planar Perovskite Solar Cells for Efficiencies above 20% | 3:30 PM/ 36-462 |
| October 4, 2016 | Dugan Hayes Argonne National Laboratory, Illinois |
Electronic and nuclear contributions to time-resolved optical and X-ray absorption spectra of hematite and insights into photoelectrochemical performance | 11am / Grier A Conference Room: 34-401A |
2015-2016 Seminar Series
| DATE | SPEAKER | TITLE | TIME/LOCATION |
| April 19, 2016 | Sean Roberts Department of Chemistry, The University of Texas at Austin |
Harvesting Solar Energy from Singlet Fission Materials | 4:30pm/ 36-428 |
| April 15, 2016 | Gregory J. Wilson Research Group Leader for Solar Energy Systems and Principal Research Scientist for Next Generation Photovoltaics, CSIRO Energy. Australia |
Disruptive Low-Cost Thin-film Photovoltaics: A Pathway for ‘Solution-less’ Perovskite Solar Cells | 3pm/ rm: 36-462 |
| April 7, 2016 | Doojin Vak Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation, Australia |
Upscaling Perovskite Solar Cells via Industrial Roll-to-Roll Processes | 3:00PM/34-401B |
| April 5, 2016 | Delia Milliron Department of Chemical Engineering, The University of Texas at Austin |
Plasmonic metal oxide nanocrystals | 4:30pm/34-401A |
| March 9, 2016 | Eric Hoke Stanford University, Draper Laboratory |
Reversible and irreversible ion migration processes in lead halide perovskites for photovoltaics | 4:30 PM/36-462 |
| February 9, 2016 | Romain Studer The European Bioinformatics Institute, European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL-EBI) |
Molecular evolution meets biophysics: the history of the RubisCO enzyme and the Fenna-Matthews-Olson (FMO) complex | 3:00pm/36-428* |
| January 19, 2016 | Sandeep Pathak Oxford University |
Fabrication of Organic-inorganic Perovskites for Highly Efficient Solar Cells and Light Emitting Diodes | 4:30pm/36-428 |
| December 8, 2015 | Dane de Quilettes University of Washington |
Elucidating the Complex Recombination Kinetics in Organic-Inorganic Trihalide Perovskites* | 4:30pm/36-428 |
| November 17, 2015 | Carlos Silva Department of Physics/ University of Montreal |
Are excitation spectral lineshapes in semicrystalline polymeric semiconductors dominated by two-dimensional excitonic coupling or chromophore energetic disorder? | 4:30pm/ 36-428 |
| November 10, 2015 | Riccardo Comin University of Toronto |
Fundamental studies and new applications of hybrid lead halide perovskites* | 4:30pm/Duboc Room: 4-331 |
| November 3, 2015 | Tamar Seideman Department of Chemistry, Northwestern University, Illinois |
Ultrafast Nanoplasmonics: Toward Coherently Controlled Chemistry at the Time-space Limit | 4:30 PM/ RLE Allen 36-462* |
| October 20, 2015 | Tyrel McQueen Department of Chemistry, Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Department of Physics and Astronomy, Institute for Quantum Matter, The Johns Hopkins University |
Probing Electrons and Vibrations in Functional Materials | 4:30pm/Pappalardo Room: 4-349* |
| October 6, 2015 | Yossi Paltiel Department of Applied Physics, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem |
Excitonic Quantum Random Walk in Biological Phycocyanin Nanowires | 4:30pm/ 36-428 |
| September 22, 2015 | Juan-Pablo Correa-Baena ÉCOLE POLYTECHNIQUE FÉDÉRALE DE LAUSANNE EPFL |
Band Alignment Engineering in Highly Efficient Planar Perovskite Solar Cells* | 4:30 pm/36-428 |
| September 15, 2015 | Sam Stranks Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
Metal-halide perovskites for photovoltaic and light-emitting devices* | 4:30 pm/36-428 |
2014-2015 Seminar Series
| DATE | SPEAKER | TITLE | TIME/LOCATION |
| August 27, 2015 | Dr. Kapil Amarnath Harvard University |
Light Harvesting by Photosystem II in the Thykaloid Membrane of Plants | 10:30 am, Room 66-360 |
| August 6, 2015 | Yi-Hsien Lee Department of Materials Science and Engineering, National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan |
Synthesis and Heterostructures of Monolayer Semiconductors | 2pm/36-428 |
| May 19, 2015 | Ju Li Department of Nuclear Science and Engineering and Department of Materials Science and Engineering |
Structural design of 2D materials for electronic and optoelectronic applications | 4:30 pm/36-428 |
| May 14, 2015 | Brian Skinner Argonne National Laboratory |
Disorder-assisted transport in topological insulators and nanocrystal superlattices | 3pm/36-428 |
| May 5, 2015 | Naomi Ginsberg University of California/Department of Chemistry and Physics |
Navigating Space-Time with Ultrafast Exciton Photolithography or Scintillating Near-fields to Follow Dynamic Processes in Molecular Materials | 4:30pm/ rm: 4-370 |
| April 21, 2015 | Joel Yuen The Research Laboratory of Electronics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
Spectroscopy and Topological Phases for Organic Excitons | 4:30 PM/ RLE Haus 36-428 |
| March 31, 2015 | Dmitri Basov Department of Physics, University of California, San Diego |
Nano-photonic phenomena in van der Waals heterostructures | 4:30 PM/ RLE Haus 36-428 |
| March 10, 2015 | Felix Castellano Department of Chemistry, North Carolina State University |
Unusual Solar Photoconversion: Sensitized Triplet Fusion | 4:30 PM/ RLE Haus 36-428 |
| January 15, 2015 | Shu Seki Osaka University |
Non-contact Nondestructive Probing of Charge Carrier Conductivity in Organic Materials and their Interfaces | 3:30pm/ 4-270 |
| December 5, 2014 | Laurens D.A. Siebbeles Department of Chemical Engineering, Delft University of Technology |
Dynamics of excitons and charges in organic materials and semiconductor nanocrystals for optoelectronics | 3pm/RLE Haus 36-428 |
| November 25, 2014 | Xiaodong Xu University of Washington |
Optoelectronics of 2D Materials | 4:30 PM/ 6-120 |
| November 4, 2014 | Akshay Rao Optoelectronics Group, Cavendish Laboratory, University of Cambridge |
Harnessing Spin, Delocalisation and Coherence in Molecular Semiconductors | 4:30pm / 6-120 |
2013-2014 Seminar Series
| DATE | SPEAKER | TITLE | TIME/LOCATION |
| May 15, 2014 | Marco Polini NEST, Istituto Nanoscienze-CNR and Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa |
Plasmonic Figures of Merit in a Doped Graphene Sheet | 2pm/36-428 |
| April 17, 2014 | Paul McEuen Department of Physics, Cornell University |
Light and Fast: Probing Carriers and Vibrations in 1D and 2D Materials | 3pm/36-428 |
| April 3, 2014 | Richard Schaller Department of Chemistry, Northwestern University, Argonne National Laboratory |
Lattice and Carrier Dynamics in Quantum-Confined Materials on Ultrafast Timescales | 3pm/36-428 |
| March 20, 2014 | Andrew Marcus Department of Chemistry, Univeristy of Oregon |
Studies of Structure and Dynamics of Biomolecular Complexes by Single Molecule and Two-Dimensional Fluorescence Spectroscopy (2DFS) | 3pm/36-428 |
| December 5, 2013 | Alfredo Alexander-Katz Department of Material Science and Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
Directing Self-Assembly of Heterogeneous NanoSystems | 3pm/36-428 |
| November 21, 2013 | Oleg Gang Center for Functional Nanomaterials, Brookhaven National Laboratory |
Programming Matter on Nanoscale | 3pm/36-428 |
| November 14, 2013 | Leonid Levitov Department of Physics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
Energy Waves and Plasmons in Graphene | 3pm/6-233 |
| October 17, 2013 | Jeremy Baumberg Department of Physics NanoPhotonics Centre, University of Cambridge, UK |
Microcavity Polaritonics: Optically-Steering Interacting Quantum Liquids on a Chip | 3pm/36-428 |
2012-2013 Seminar Series
| DATE | SPEAKER | TITLE | TIME/LOCATION |
| May 9, 2013 | Bradley Olsen Department of Chemical Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
Self-Assembly of Functional Polymers | 3pm/36-428 |
| April 25, 2013 | Graham Fleming Department of Chemistry University of California, Berkeley |
Excitation Energy Flow in Photosynthesis | 3pm/36-428 |
| February 28, 2013 | Frank Wuerthner Institut für Organische Chemie Universität Würzburg |
Supramolecular Photosystems Based on Dye Aggregates | 3pm/36-428 |
| February 21, 2013 | Andrei Piryatinski Physics of Condensed Matter and Complex Systems Group, Los Alamos National Laboratory |
Surface-Plasmon Assisted Exciton and Charge Carrier Transport in One Dimensional Nanostructures | 3pm/36-428 |
| February 7, 2013 | Ted Goodson Department of Chemistry, University of Michigan |
Enhanced Optical Effects from Excitons in Multi-Chromophore Systems | 3pm/36-428 |
| December 13, 2012 | Seth Marder Department of Chemistry/Biochemistry, Director, Center for Organic Photonics and Electronics, Georgia Tech |
Organic Semiconductor Chemistry | 3pm/36-428 |
| November 29, 2012 | Karl Leo Department of Mathematics and Natural Sciences, Department of Physics, Technical University of Dresden |
Excitons in Highly Efficient Organic Devices | 3pm/36-428 |
| October 25, 2012 | Adreas Stein Department of Chemistry, University of Minnesota |
Structuring Materials on Multiple Length Scales for Energy Applications | 3pm/36-428 |
| October 11, 2012 | Michael R. Wasielewski Director, Argonne-Northwestern Solar Energy Research (ANSER) Center, Northwestern University |
Exciton Dynamics and Structural Investigations of Singlet Fission in Molecular Solids | 3pm/36-428 |
| September 27, 2012 | Ted Sargent Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering - Canada Research Chair in Nanotechnology, University of Toronto, Canada |
Solution-Processed Solar Cells using Colloidal Quantum Dots | 3pm/36-428 |
2011-2012 Seminar Series
| DATE | SPEAKER | TITLE | TIME/LOCATION |
| April 24, 2012 | Alan Aspuru-Guzik Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology, Harvard University |
Finding renewable energy materials using one screensaver at a time: Combinatorial quantum chemistry for organic photovoltaics | 3pm/36-428 |
| April 3, 2012 | Josef Michl Dept. of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of Colorado, Boulder |
Singlet Fission | 3:00pm/36-428 |
| March 20, 2012 | George T. Wang Advanced Materials Science, Sandia National Laboratories |
III-Nitride Nanowires: Emerging Materials for Lighting and Energy Applications | 3pm/36-428 |
| March 14, 2012 | Mark Hybertsen Brookhaven National Laboratory, Columbia University |
Exploring Competing Kinetic Processes in Quantum Dots Linked to Electrode Surfaces | 2:30pm/4-349 |
| March 6, 2012 | Christopher Bardeen Department of Chemistry, University of California, Riverside |
Singlet fission in tetracene and rubrene: evidence for the direct formation of entangled triplet pairs | 3pm/36-428 |
| February 7, 2012 | Mark Allendorf Sandia National Laboratories |
Luminescent metal-organic frameworks (MOFs); a nanolaboratory for photophysics | 3pm/36-428 |
| December 13, 2011 | Mark Wilson Optoelectronics Group, University of Cambridge |
Singlet Exciton Fission in Polyacenes: Photophysics and Photovoltaic Applications | 3pm/34-401A |
| December 1, 2011 | Eric Stach Center for Functional Nanomaterials, Brookhaven National Laboratories |
Real time observations of the nucleation and growth of nanowires and nanotubes | 3pm/36-428 |
| November 29, 2011 | Jasper Knoester Zernike Institute for Advanced Materials, University of Groningen, Netherlands |
Spectroscopy of complex molecular systems: Physics on an exciton cake-walk | 3pm/36-428 |
| November 15, 2011 | David Snoke Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Pittsburgh |
Superfluid Phase Transition of Long-lifetime Polaritons | 3pm/34-401A |
| October 4, 2011 | Garry Rumbles National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL), Univeristy of Colorado, Boulder |
Comparing the Primary Electron Transfer Process in Organic Photovoltaic Heterojunctions with Photosynthetic Reaction Centers | 3pm/36-428 |
| September 20, 2011 | Shaul Mukamel University of California, Irvine |
Probing Valance and Core Excitons in Molecules by Coherent Multidimensional Spectroscopy with Clasical and Quantum Light | 3pm/36-428 |
2010-2011 Seminar Series
| DATE | SPEAKER | TITLE | TIME/LOCATION |
| July 18, 2011 | Christian Martin Associate Editor, Nature Materials |
Publishing with NPG and Nature Materials | 1:30/34-401A |
| May 17, 2011 | Thomas Renger Johannes Kepler Universitat -Linz, Austria |
Theory of light-harvesting in photosynthesis: from structure to function | 3pm/36-428 |
| May 10, 2011 | Benoit Deveaud-Plédran Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne |
Bose-Einstein condensates of polaritons: Vortices and superfluidity | 3:00PM/36-428 |
| April 26, 2011 | Mircea Dinca Department of Chemistry, Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
Crystalline Microporous Metal-Organic Frameworks: Opportunities in Energy Research | 3pm/38-401A |
| April 5, 2011 | Carlos Silva University of Montreal |
Charge separation by photoexcitation in seimcrystalline polymeric semiconductors: An intrinsic or extrinsic mechanism? | 3pm/36-428 |
| March 15, 2011 | Paul E. Burrows Reata Research |
Organic Solid State Lighting | 3pm/36-428 |
| March 8, 2011 | Vinod M. Menon Queens College of the City University of New York (CUNY) |
Control of Light-matter Interaction Using Dispersion Engineered Photonic Structures | 3pm/36-428 |
| February 15, 2011 | Rachel Segalman University of California, Berkeley |
Molecular and Hybrid Solution Processable Thermoelectrics | 3pm/36-428 |
| February 8, 2011 | Jonathan Fan Harvard University |
Self-Assembled Colloidal Plasmonic Systems | 3pm/36-428 |
| February 1, 2011 | Mihaela C. Stefan University of Texas at Dallas |
Benzodithiophene Based Semiconducting Polymers for Organic Photovoltaics | 3pm/36-428 |
| January 26, 2011 | Matteo Cavalleri Journal of Polymer Science: Polymer Physics |
How Scientific Publishing Works | 1:30 PM/MIT Endicott House |
| December 14, 2010 | Jagadeesh Moodera Francis Bitter Laboratory, Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
Organic Spintronics: Influence of Interface Structure and Magnetism | 3pm/36-428 |
| December 7, 2010 | Jianshu Cao Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
Optimization of Energy Transfer Processes in Photosynthetic Systems | 3pm/36-428 |
| November 12, 2010 | Wei You University of North Carolina |
Molecular Engineering of Conjugated Polymers to Reach Higher Efficiency “Plastic” Solar Cells | 3pm/36-428 |
| October 26, 2010 | Mark Thompson University of Southern California (USC) |
Steering and Separating Excitons in Organic Thin Films and Devices | 3pm/36-428 |
2009-2010 Seminar Series
| DATE | SPEAKER | TITLE | TIME/LOCATION |
| May 24, 2010 | Sebastian Reineke Institut für Angewandte Photophysik, Dresden |
Concepts for Phosphorescent Organic LEDs at High Brightness | 3pm/36-428 |
| May 4, 2010 | Silvija Gradečak Laboratory for Nanophotonics and Electronics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
Semiconductor nanowires: from LEDs to Solar Cells | 3pm/36-428 |
| April 15, 2010 | Patanjali Kambhampati Department of Chemistry, McGill University |
State-Resolved Exciton Dynamics in Quantum Dots | 3pm/34-401A |
| April 13, 2010 | Koen Vandewal Linköping University |
Charge-transfer absorption and emission in polymer: fullerene solar cells | 3pm/36-428 |
| March 30, 2010 | William A. Tisdale Department of Chemical Engineering and Materials Science University of Minnesota |
Hot Electron Transfer from Semiconductor Nanocrystals | 3pm/36-428 |
| March 16, 2010 | Shaul Mukamel Department of Chemistry, University of California, Irvine |
Quantum Transport Effects and Coherent Ultrafast Multidimensional Spectroscopy of Light Harvesting Photosynthetic Complexes | 3pm/36-428 |
| March 2, 2010 | René Janssen Molecular Materials and Nanosystems, Eindhoven University of Technology |
Polymer Solar Cells: New Materials, 3D Morphology, and Tandem Devices | 3pm/36-428 |
| December 15, 2009 | Sergei Tretiak Los Alamos National Laboratory |
Dynamics of Excitons and Phonons in Disordered Nanoscale Materials | 3pm/36-428 |
| December 8, 2009 | K. Birgitta Whaley Department of Chemistry, University of California, Berkeley |
Quantum Effects in Photosynthesis | Room 330, 60 Oxford Street, Harvard Campus |
| December 1, 2009 | Peter Sutter Center for Functional Nanomaterials |
Metal Catalyzed sp2 Bonded Carbon – Large-scale Graphene Synthesis and Beyond | 3pm/36-428 |
| November 11, 2009 | Angel Rubio Universidad del Pais Vasco UPV/EHU and Centro Mixto CSIC-UPV/EHU |
Theoretical Spectroscopy of Low Dimensional Systems | 2pm/Pfizer Hall - Mb-23 Harvard University 12 Oxford Street Cambridge |
| November 10, 2009 | Greg Engel Department of Chemistry, The James Franck Institute, University of Chicago |
Design Principles of Coherent Photosynthetic Energy Transport: Insights from Two Dimensional Electronic Spectroscopy | 3pm/36-428 |
| November 3, 2009 | Charles Black Center for Functional Nanomaterials, Brookhaven National Laboratory |
Self Assembly for Nanostructured Electronic Devices at the Center for Functional Nanomaterials | 3pm/36-428 |
| October 20, 2009 | Alan Heeger Department of Chemistry, University of California, Santa Barbara |
“Plastic” Solar Cells: Self-Assembly of Bulk Heterojunction Nano-Materials by Spontaneous Phase Separation | 3pm/36-428 |
| October 6, 2009 | Frank Spano Department of Chemistry, Temple University |
The Role of Intermolecular Coupling in the Photophysics of Disordered Organic Semiconductors | 3pm/36-428 |
| September 29, 2009 | Ian Mercer Department of Physics, University College Dublin |
Quantum Dimension of Photosynthesis Revealed by Angular Resolved Coherent Imaging | 3pm/36-428 |
2008-2009 Seminar Series
| DATE | SPEAKER | TITLE | TIME/LOCATION |
| May 20, 2009 | Russell J.Holmes Department of Chemical Engineering and Materials Science, University of Minnesota |
Overcoming the Exciton Diffusion Bottleneck in Organic Photovoltaic Cells | 3pm/36-428 |
| April 29, 2009 | Jenny Nelson Department of Physics Imperial College London |
Factors influencing photocurrent generation in organic bulk heterojunction solar cells: interfacial energetics and blend microstructure | 3pm/36-428 |
| April 22, 2009 | Leonid V. Butov Department of Physics University of California, San Diego |
Indirect Excitonics | 3pm/36-428 |
| April 15, 2009 | Keith A. Nelson Department of Chemistry Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
Excitons, biexcitons, and higher-order correlations: Direct observations of ultrafast many-body dynamics | 3pm/36-428 |
| April 8, 2009 | Xiang Zhang NSF Nano-scale Science and Engineering Center (NSEC), University of California, Berkeley |
Photonic Metamaterials, Nano- plasmonics and Superlens | 3pm/36-428 |
| April 1, 2009 | Vladimir Bulovic Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
Excitonic Processes in Nanostructured Optoelectronic Devices | 3pm/36-428 |
| February 25, 2009 | Gregory D. Scholes Department of Chemistry, University of Toronto |
Electronic Structure and Excited State Dynamics in Biological and Nanoscale Systems | 3pm/36-428 |
| February 18, 2009 | Moungi G. Bawendi Department of Chemistry, Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
The importance of excitons in the science and technology of semiconductor nanocrystals | 3pm/36-428 |
| February 4, 2009 | Ken Crozier School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Harvard University |
Optical Antennas for Nanophotonics | 3pm/36-428 |
| January 28, 2009 | Troy Van Voorhis Department of Chemistry, Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
Exploring Electron Transfer in Organic Semiconductors | 3pm/36-428 |
