Fostering Innovation and Education in Computational Materials Science
This PREM is a partnership between the multidisciplinary W. M. Keck Computational Materials Theory Center at California State University Northridge, a Hispanic-serving institution, and the Princeton Center for Complex Materials, the NSF-funded Materials Research Science and Engineering Center (MRSEC) at Princeton University.
Objectives:
- to initiate and expand collaborations on research and education for emergent materials
- to broaden participation in materials research and education through recruitment, retention and outreach programs involving high school students and teachers, undergraduate and graduate students
- to leverage and harness the intellectual power and research infrastructure to address grand challenges in emergent materials research
- to promote accessibility of multidisciplinary cutting-edge research and education experience to underrepresented groups
- to stimulate and develop strong industrial-university-national laboratory partnerships in materials research
Research:
The research emphasis will be on the development of physical models, numerical algorithms and robust simulation techniques for the study of:
- Interfacial Charge Transfer and Separation in Excitonic Photovoltaics
- Quantum Phenomena in Topological Materials
- Spintronics in Multifunctional Devices
Principal Investigator :
Gang Lu