2018 Karl W. B枚er Solar Energy Medal of Merit Recipient Selected

May 24, 2018

The B枚er Solar Energy Medal of Merit Selection Committee has selected Professor Alex Zunger of the University of Colorado, Boulder, for the Karl W. B枚er Solar Energy Medal of Merit Award for 2018.The citation reads: 鈥淔or outstanding and transformative contributions to the understanding of PV and electronic materials interfaces, nanostructure,...

"Physics World" published a piece of news on "Inverse Design"

Jan. 8, 2016

Chemical & engineering news published a piece on our material discovery work

Dec. 20, 2015

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蜜桃传媒破解版下载 got 10th place in world ranking in science

Nov. 3, 2015

See Academic Ranking of World Universities in Natural Sciences and Mathematics of 2015 at: URL Also see the 蜜桃传媒破解版下载 reports at: URL

Recent Nature Physics paper on hidden spin polarization becomes learning model for Nature Physics master class on innovative writing

Aug. 17, 2015

"What makes a Nature paper?" The Online Nature Masterclasses are high-quality, online training in scientific writing and publishing, delivered by Nature journal editors, for senior researchers, post-doctoral researchers and PhD students in the natural sciences. The coming Nature Masterclasses has chosen as part of the course, our article on "Hidden...

Physics Today artical celebrating 鈥淎 half century of density functional theory鈥 features as one of two DFT illustrative abilities our recent Nature Chemistry work

July 7, 2015

鈥淎 half century of density functional theory鈥 by Andrew Zangwill Physics Today, Volume 68, Issue 7, July 2015.

Recent prediction of a novel type of transparent conductors utilizing wide gap compound TaIrGe made of heavy elements verified experimentally

June 24, 2015

Prof. Thomas O. Mason鈥檚 group in Northwestern University demonstrated p-type conductivity with remarkably high hole mobility of 2,730 鈥塩m^2/V.s at room temperature. Xiuwen is the co-first author.

Alex received 10,000,000 processor hours for the research proposal entitled 鈥淚ntroducing carriers and control polaronic states in energy-related complex solids鈥

May 21, 2015

2015 ALCC award (ASCR Leadership Computing Challenge (ALCC))

The predicted crystal structures, thermodynamic stability and physical properties of 15 previously 鈥渕issing compounds鈥 of the Half Heusler family were validated experimentally

March 24, 2015

Reviewed by Nature News and Views: 鈥 Inorganic materials: The quest for new functionality 鈥 by Aron Walsh. This is a collaborated work with Prof. Kenneth R. Poeppelmeier鈥檚 group. Xiuwen is the co-first author.

Our prediction of surprising optical circular polarizations in the centrosymmetric transition-metal dichalcogenides鈥攁n effect that was generally expected only in non-centrosymmetric materials

Feb. 27, 2015

Published in PRL. Qihang is the first author.

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