LMI is devoted to new designs and materials for photovoltaics that utilize the entire solar spectrum...
In the LMI-EFRC, we are creating new methods and architectures for complex photonic materials for solar energy conversion, including metamaterials, transformation optics, plasmonics, photonic crystals and other dielectric spectrum-splitting and light trapping elements. These structures span dimensions ranging from the greater-than-wavelength scale to the subwavelength scale, and as a result, the LMI-EFRC has fostered a world-leading capability for fabrication of complex three-dimensional photonic nanostructures and light absorbers. Our long-term goal is to serve as the national resource for fundamental optical principles and phenomena relevant to solar energy conversion, and for design of the optical properties of materials and devices used for energy conversion.
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