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Solar Energy

Artificial Photosynthesis: Membrane Supported Assemblies That Use Sunlight To Split Water
  • Lancaster, K. M.; Yokoyama, K.; Richards, J. H.; Winkler, J. R.; Gray, H. B. Modified Protein Active Sites: Pseudomonas aeruginosa Azurins. Manuscript in preparation.
  • Jordan Katz, Todd Gingrich, Bruce Brunschwig, and Nathan Lewis, A Novel Rapid Combinatorial Screen for Photocatalyst Discovery, in preparation.
Advanced Materials and Devices for Low Cost and High Performance Organic Photovoltaic Cells
  • M. Tang, A. Reichardt, N. Miyaki, R.M. Stoltenberg, Z. Bao, J. Am. Chem. Soc. accepted M. Tang, A. Reichardt, Z. Bao, Adv. Func. Mater., in press.
  • M. Tang, A. Reichardt, T. Siegrist, S.C.B. Mannsfeld, Z. Bao, Chem. Mater. in press.
  • Okamoto, Y. Jiang, F. Qiu, A.C. Mayer, J.E. Parmer, M.D. McGehee, Z. Bao, Macromolecules, accepted.
  • Okamoto, M.L. Senatore, M.M. Ling, A.B. Mallik, M.L. Tang, Z. Bao, Adv. Mater. 19, 3381-3384, 2007.
  • Okamoto, Z. Bao, J. Am. Chem. Soc. 129, 10308-0309, 2007.
  • S. Sista, Y. Yao, Y. Yang, M.L. Tang, Z. Bao, Appl. Phys. Lett. 91, 223508, 2007.
  • J.E. Parmer, A.C. Mayer, B.E. Hardin, S.R. Scully, M.D. McGehee, M. Heeney, I. McCulloch, Applied Physics Letters 92 (2008) p. 113309-1-3.
  • A.C. Mayer, S.R. Scully, B.E. Hardin, M.W. Rowell, M.D. McGehee, Materials Today, 10 (2007) p. 28-33.
  • S.R. Scully, P. B. Armstrong, C. Edder, J.M.J. Frechet, and M.D. McGehee, Advanced Materials 19 (2007) p. 2961-6.
  • S. R. Scully, M. D. McGehee. Effects of optical interference and energy transfer on exciton diffusion length measurements in organic semiconductors. J. Appl. Phys. 100, 034907 (2006)
Molecular Solar Cells
  • J. Wu, H.A. Becerril, Z. Bao and P. Peumans, "Organic solar cells with solution processed graphene transparent electrodes," accepted in Appl. Phys. Lett.
  • M. Agrawal and P. Peumans, "Broadband optical absorption enhancement through coherent light trapping in thin-film photovoltaic cells," Optics Express 16, 5385-5396 (2008).
  • Liu, S. Zhao, S. B. Rim, M. Koenemann, P. Erk and P. Peumans, "Control of electric field strength and orientation at the donor-acceptor interface in organic solar cells," Advanced Materials 2008, 1065-1070 (2008).
  • S. Zhao and P. Peumans, "Geminate recombination at organic semiconductor heterojunctions," submitted.
  • S. B. Rim, S. Zhao, S. R. Scully, M. D. McGehee and P. Peumans, "An effective light trapping configuration for thin-film solar cells," Applied Physics Letters 91, 243501 (2007).
Nanostructured Silicon-Based Tandem Solar Cells
  • D. Song, E-Chel Cho, G. Conibeer, Y. Huang, and M.A. Green, “Structural, electrical and photovoltaic characterization of Si nanocrystals embedded SiC matrix and Si nanocrystals/c-Si heterojunction devices”, Solar Energy Materials & Solar Cells, Vol.92, pp.474-481 (2008).
  • D. Song, E-C. Cho, G. Conibeer, Y. Huang, C. Flynn, MA. Green, "Structural characterization of annealed Si1-xCx/SiC multilayers targeting formation of Si nanocrystals in a SiC matrix", Journal of Applied Physics, 103 (2008) 083544.
  • E. Cho, S. Park, X. Hao, D. Song, G. Conibeer, S. Park, MA. Green, “Silicon quantum dots/crystalline silicon solar cells”, Nanotechnology, accepted, Apr 2008.
  • D. König, J. Rudd, M.A. Green, G. Conibeer, “Role of the Interface for the Electronic Structure of Silicon Quantum Dots”, Physical Review B (submitted November 2007, re-submitted after review Apr 2008).
  • G. Scardera, E. Bellet-Amalric, D. Bellet, T. Puzzer, E. Pink, G. Conibeer, “Formation of a Si-Si3N4 nanocomposite from plasma enhanced chemical vapour deposition multilayer structures”, Journal of Crystal Growth, reviewed with minor changes suggested, 2008.
  • G. Scardera, T. Puzzer, I. Perez-Wurfl, G. Conibeer, “The effects of annealing temperature on the photoluminescence from silicon nitride multilayer structures”, Journal of Crystal Growth, reviewed with minor changes suggested, 2008.
  • G. Scardera, T. Puzzer, G. Conibeer, M. A. Green, “Fourier transform infra-red spectroscopy study of silicon nanocrystals embedded in silicon nitride”, Journal of Applied Physics, submitted and under review, 2008.
  • E. Cho, S. Park, X. Hao, G. Conibeer, I. Perez-Wurfl, MA. Green, “Modification of electronic properties in silicon quantum dot superlattice”, Solar Energy Materials and Solar Cells, submitted, Dec 2007.
  • S. Park, E.-C. Cho, D. Song, G. Conibeer, M.A. Green, “Electrical properties of n-type Silicon quantum dots and P-type crystalline silicon heterojunction devices”, Solar Energy Materials and Solar Cells, submitted, Dec 2007.
  • D. König, J. Rudd, M.A. Green, G. Conibeer, “Impact of Interface on Effective Band Gap of Si Quantum Dots”, Solar Energy Materials and Solar Cells, submitted, Dec 2007X.
  • J. Hao, E-C. Cho, G. Scardera, S. Huang, E. Bellet-Amalric, D. Bellet, S.C. Park, G. Conibeer, M.A. Green, “Phosphorus Doped Silicon Quantum Dots for All-Silicon Quantum Dot Tandem Solar Cells", Solar Energy Materials and Solar Cells, submitted, Dec 2007.
  • G. Conibeer, M. Green, E-C. Cho, D. König, Y-H. Cho, T. Fangsuwannarak, G. Scardera, E. Pink, Y. Huang, T. Puzzer, S. Huang, D. Song, C. Flynn, S. Park, X. Hao, D. Mansfield, “Silicon quantum dot nanostructures for tandem photovoltaic cells”, Thin Solid Films, accepted for publication, available on line Dec 2007, doi:10.1016/j.tsf.2007.12.096
  • G. Conibeer, Materials Today, “Third-Generation Photovoltaics” 10 (Nov 2007) 42-50.
  • E.-C. Cho, M. A. Green, R. Corkish, P. Reece, M. Gal and S.-H. Lee “Photoluminescence in crystalline silicon quantum wells”, Journal of Applied Physics, 101, 024321 (2007)
  • Lap Van Dao, Jeff Davis, and Peter Hannaford, Young-Hyun Cho, Martin A. Green, and Eun-Chel Cho. Ultrafast carrier dynamics of Si quantum dots embedded in SiN matrix. Appl. Phys. Lett. 90, 081105 (2007)
  • G. Conibeer, M.A. Green, R. Corkish, Y.-H. Cho, E.-C. Cho, C.-W. Jiang, T. Fangsuwannarak, E. Pink, Y. Huang, T. Puzzer, T. Trupke, B. Richards, A. Shalav, K.-L. Lin, “Silicon nanostructures for third generation photovoltaic solar cells”, Thin Solid Films 511/512, 654 (2006)
  • S. Huang, E. Cho, G. Conibeer, M. Green, D. Bellet, E. Bellet-Amalric, S. Cheng, J. Appl. Phys. 102, 114304 (2007)
  • E. C. Cho, M. A. Green, R. Corkish, P. Reece, M. Gal and S.-H. Lee “Photoluminescence in crystalline silicon quantum wells”, Journal of Applied Physics, 101, 024321 (2007).
  • E. Cho, MA. Green, G. Conibeer, Y. Cho, D. Song, G. Scardera, S. Huang, S. Park, X. Hao, Y. Huang, “Silicon Quantum Dots in a Dielectric Matrix for All-Silicon Tandem Solar Cells", Advances in OptoElectronics, vol. 2007, Article ID 69578, 11 pages, 2007. doi:10.1155/2007/69578.
  • D. König, J. Rudd, M.A. Green, G. Conibeer, Impact of Interface on Effective Band Gap of Si QDs, 17th Int. PVSEC, 3-7 Dec. 2007, Fukuoka, Technical Digest, presentation 5O-A8-03.
  • D. Song, E. C. Cho, Y. H. Cho, G. Conibeer, Y. Huang, S. Huang, and M. A. Green, “Evolution of Si (and SiC) nanocrystal precipitation in SiC matrix”, Thin Solid Films (2007), DOI:10.1016/j.tsf.2007.06.150.
  • D. Song, E. C Cho, G. Conibeer, Y.-H. Cho, Y. Huang, S. Huang, C. Flynn, and M.A. Green, “Fabrication and characterization of Si nanocrystals in SiC matrix produced by magnetron cosputtering”,Journal of Vacuum Science & Technology, Vol. B25, pp.1327-1335, 2007.
  • D. Song, E. C Cho, G. Conibeer, Y. Huang, and M.A. Green, “Fabrication and electrical characteristics of Si nanocrystal/c-Si heterojunctions”, Applied Physics Letter, Vol. 91, pp.123510 (1-3), 2007.
  • C-W. Jiang and M. A. Green, “Silicon Quantum Dot Superlattices: Modelling of Energy Bands, Densities of States and Mobilities for Silicon Tandem Solar Cell Applications”, Journal Applied Physics, Vol. 99, 114902, 2006
Photosynthetic Bioelectricity
Nanostructured Metal-Organic Composite Solar Cells
  • P. B. Catrysse and S. Fan, Propagating plasmonic modes and its implications for extraordinary transmission, J. Nanophotonics 2, 021790 (2008). (Invited paper)
  • P. B. Catrysse and S. Fan, “Near-complete transmission through sub-wavelength hole arrays in phonon-polariton thin films”, Physical Review B 75, 075422 (2007).
  • P. B. Catrysse and S. Fan, Enlarging the bandwidth of nanoscale propagating plasmonic modes in deep sub-wavelength cylindrical holes, Appl. Phys. Lett. 91:18, 181118 (2007).
  • S. Fujimori, R. Dinyari, J.-Y. Lee and P. Peumans, "Plasmonic light concentration in organic solar cells," accepted in Nanoletters.
  • S. Fujimori, R. Dinyari and P. Peumans, "Electrically-assisted aerosol deposition of metal nanoparticles," in preparation.
  • Edward S. Barnard, Justin S. White, Anu Chandran, and Mark L. Brongersma, “A Fabry-Perot model for plasmonics antennas,” in preparation
Ordered Bulk Heterojunction Photovoltaic Cells

Hydrogen

Direct Solar BioHydrogen
Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Studies of Ceramic Materials for Fuel Cells
  • Kim, N., Hsieh, C.-H., Huang, H., Prinz, F.B. and Stebbins, J.F. High temperature 17O MAS NMR study of calcia, magnesia, scandia and yttria stabilized zirconia. Sol. State Ionics 178, 1499-1506, 2007.
  • Kim, N. and Stebbins, J.F. Cation coordination and vacancy ordering in yttrium-doped ceria: 17O and 89Y NMR, Chem. Materials, 19, 5742-5747, 2007.
  • Huang, H., Hsieh, C.-H., Kim, N., Stebbins, J.F. and Prinz, F. Structure, local environment, and ionic conductivity in scandia stabilized zirconia. Sol. State Ionics, in press.
  • Kim, N. and Stebbins, J.F. Scandium molybdate-scandium tungstate solid solutions: high resolution 45Sc and 17O NMR constraints on cation disorder. In preparation.
  • Kim, N., Hsieh, C.-H. & Stebbins, J.F. Scandium coordination in solid oxides and stabilized zirconia: 45Sc NMR. Chem. Mat. 18, 3855-3859 (2006)
  • Hsieh, C.-H. Solid-state NMR and x-ray studies of local coordination environment in the ZrO2-Sc2O3 system. M.S. Report, Dept. of Materials Science and Engineering, Stanford University, 2005.
Nanomaterials Engineering for Hydrogen Storage
Hydrogen Effects on Climate, Stratospheric Ozone, and Air Pollution
Biohydrogen Generation
Micro and Nano Scale Electrochemistry Applied to PEM Fuel Cells
  • Shen, Y., D. M. Barnett, and P. M. Pinsky, Modeling electrostatic force microscopy for conductive and dielectric samples using the boundary element method: Eng. Anal. Bound. Elem., accepted for publication, doi:10.1016/j.enganabound.2007.12.003.
  • Shen, Y., D. M. Barnett, and P. M. Pinsky, Analytic perturbation solution to the capacitance system between a hyberboloidal tip and a rough surface: Appl. Phys. Lett., 92, 134105, 2008.
  • Shen, Y., D. M. Barnett, and P. M. Pinsky, Simulating and interpreting Kelvin probe force microscopy images on dielectrics with boundary integral equations: Rev. Sci. Instrum., 79, 023711, 2008.
  • Shen, Y., M. Lee, W. Lee, D. M. Barnett, P. M. Pinsky, and F. B. Prinz, A resolution study for electrostatic force microscopy on bimetallic samples using the boundary element method: Nanotechnology, 19, 035710, 2008.
  • Shen, Y., D. M. Barnett, and P. M. Pinsky, Integral equation modeling of electrostatic interactions in atomic force microscopy. In: C. Constanda and S. Potapenko (eds.), Integral Methods in Science and Engineering: Techniques and Applications, Birkhäuser, Boston, 237-246, 2007.
  • O’Hayre, R. & Prinz, F.B. The Air/Platinum/Nafion Triple Phase Boundary: Characteristics, Scaling, and Implications for Fuel Cells. J. Electrochem. Soc. 151, A756 (2004)
  • O’Hayre, R., Feng, G., Nix, W.D. & Prinz, F.B. Quantitative Impedance Measurement Using Atomic Force Microscopy. J. App. Phys. 96:6, 3540-3549 (2004)
  • O’Hayre, R., Lee, M. & Prinz, F.B. Ionic and Electronic Impedance Imaging Using Atomic Force Microscopy. J. App. Phys. 95:12, 8382-8392 (2004)
  • O’Hayre, R., Micro Scale Electrochemistry: Application to Fuel Cells. Ph.D. Thesis, Stanford University (May 2004)
Monitoring of the Bioconversion Processes

Advanced Combustion

Optimization of Synthetic Oxygenated Fuels for Diesel Engines
  • Pepiot-Desjardins, P., Pitsch, H., Malhotra, R., Kirby, S.R. and Boehman, A.L. Experimental Study and Structural Group Analysis for Soot Reduction Tendency of Oxygenated Fuels. Comb. Flame, in press, 2008.
Sensors for Advanced Combustion Systems
Development of Low-Irreversibility Engines
Process Informatics


CO2 Capture

Development of Innovative Gas Separation Membranes through Sub-Nanoscale Material Control
  • "Preparation and CO2 separation properties of amine modified mesoporous silica membrane", Yuzuru Sakamoto, Kensuke Nagata, Katsunori Yogo and Koichi Yamada, Microporous and Mesoporous Materials, Vol. 101(1-2) 303-311(19 April 2007).

CO2 Storage

Geologic Storage of CO2 in Coal Beds
  • Brown, S., Bussod, G., and Hagin, P., AVO monitoring of CO2 sequestration: A benchtop-modeling study, The Leading Edge, 26, 1576, 2007.
  • Chiaramonte, L., Zoback, M., Friedmann, J. and Stamp, V. (2007). Seal Integrity and Feasibility of CO2 Sequestration in the Teapot Dome EOR Pilot: Geomechanical Site Characterization.
  • Environmental Geology, on-line first, doi:10.1007/s00254-007-0948-7, July 2007. Submitted: June 2006.
  • Lin. W., G.-Q. Tang, and A. R. Kovscek, "Sorption-Induced Permeability Change of Coal During Gas-Injection Processes," SPE Reservoir Engineering and Evaluation, to appear.
  • Jessen, K., Tang, G.-Q. and A. R. Kovscek, "Laboratory and Simulation Investigation of Enhanced Coalbed Methane Recovery by Gas Injection," Transport in Porous Media, to appear.
  • Xu, Chuntang, Estimation of effective compressibility and permeability of porous materials with differential acoustic resonance spectroscopy, PhD thesis, Department of Geophysics, Stanford University, 2007
  • Spiteri, E.J., Juanes, R., Blunt, M.R., and Orr, F.M.,Jr: Impact of relative permeability hysteresis on geological CO2 storage, Water Resour. Res., 42, W12418, doi:10.1029/2005WR004806, 2006
A Numerical Simulation Framework for CO2 Sequestration
  • H. Zhou and H.A. Tchelepi. Operator based multiscale method for compressible flow (also SPE 106254) SPE Journal, June 2008.
  • Hesse. M. A., Orr Jr., F. M., and H. A. Tchelepi (2008) Gravity Currents with Residual Trapping, accepted for publication J. Fluid Mech.
  • M. A. Hesse, H. A. Tchelepi, B. J. Cantwell, and F. M. Orr, Jr. Gravity currents in horizontal porous layers: Transition from early to late self-similarity. Journal of Fluid Mechanics, Vol. 577, 2007
  • A. Riaz and H. A. Tchelepi. Stability of two-phase vertical flow in homogeneous porous media. Physics of Fluids 19, 072103, (2007).
  • Y. Fan. Development of CO2 modeling capabilities in Stanford General Purpose Reservoir Simulator, M.S Thesis, June 2006.
  • H. Zhou. Multiscale modeling of compressible multiphase flow in heterogenous porous media, M.S report, Stanford University (June 2006).
  • A. Riaz, H. Hesse, H. A. Tchelepi, and F. M. Orr, Jr. Onset of convection in a gravitationally unstable diffusive boundary layer in porous media. Journal of Fluid Mechanics, Vol. 548:87, 2006.
  • Riaz, A., & Tchelepi, H. A. A Numerical Simulation of Immiscible Two-Phase Flow in Porous Media. Phys. Fluids 18, 014104 (2006)
  • A. Riaz and H. A. Tchelepi. Dynamics of vertical displacement in saline aquifers associated with CO2 sequestration. SPE Journal, In Press
  • M. Tyagi, P. Jenny, I. Lunati, and H.A. Tchelepi. A lagrangian, stochastic modeling framework for multiphase flow in porous media, Journal of Computational Physics, In Press.
Geophysical Monitoring of Geologic Sequestration
  • Wu, Chunling, J.M. Harris, K.T. Nihei, and S. Nakagawa, Two-dimensional finite difference seismic modeling of an open fluid-filled fracture: Comparison of thin-layer and linear-slip models, Geophysics, Vol. 70, No. 4, pp. T57-T62, 2005
  • Harris, J. M. and Akintunde, M., Time-lapse monitoring of coalbed natural gas production: A case study from the Powder River basin, Wyoming Geological Survey, Rpt of Investigations No. 55, pp 109-125, 2005
  • Wu, Chunling, Efficient seismic modeling in multi-scale heterogeneous media. PhD Thesis, Department of Geophysics, Stanford University, 2005
  • Wu, Chunling, Jerry M. Harris, An optimized variable-grid finite-difference method for seismic forward modeling, Journal of Seismic Exploration, Vol. 12, 343-353, 2004
Rapid Prediction of CO2 Movement in Aquifers, Coal Beds, and Oil and Gas Reservoirs

Advanced Materials and Catalysts

Electrocatalysis with Discrete Transition Metal Complexes
  • McCrory, C. C. L.; Ottenwaelder, X.; Stack, T. D. P.; Chidsey, C. E. D. J. Phys. Chem. A 2007, 111, 12641-12650.
  • Conley, N. R.; Labois, L.A.; Pearson, D.M.; McCrory, C.; Waymouth, R.M. “Aerobic Alcohol Oxidation with Cationic Palladium Complexes: Insights into Catalyst Design and Decomposition”, Organometallics 2007, 26, 5447-5453.
Metal Oxide Nanotubes and Photo-Excitation Effects: New Approaches for Low-to-Intermediate Temperature Solid Oxide Fuel Cells
  • Synthesis and interfacial phenomena in ultra-thin ytrria-doped zirconia films grown by alloy oxidation under photon irradiation, M. Tsuchiya and S. Ramanathan, Applied Physics Letters, 92, 033107 (2008)
  • Effect of photon irradiation on structure of yttria-doped zirconia thin films grown on semiconductor substrates, M. Tsuchiya and S. Ramanathan, Applied Physics Letters, 91, 253104 (2007)

Advanced Transportation

Nanowire Lithium-Ion Batteries as Electrochemical Energy Storage for Electric Vehicles
  • C. K. Chan, H. Peng, G. Liu, K. McIlwrath, X. F. Zhang, R. A. Huggins, Y. Cui “High Performance Lithium Battery Anodes Using Silicon Nanowires” Nature Nanotech. 3, 31-35 (2008).
  • C. K. Chan, X. F. Zhang, Y. Cui “High Capacity Li-ion Battery Anodes Using Ge Nanowires” Nano Lett. 8, 307-309 (2008).

Integrated Assessment

Technology Potential of Biofuels: Feasibility Assessment
Integrated Assessment of Technology Options
  • Erin Baker, J.P. Weyant and L.G. Clarke. “Optimal Technological R&D in the Face of Climate Uncertainty.” Climatic Change, Vol.78, No. 1, pp. 157-179, September 2006
  • Leon Clarke, John Weyant, and Alison Birky, “On the Sources of Technological Advance: Assessing the Evidence,” Energy Economics, Vol. 28, No. 5-6, pp. 579-595, November, 2006
  • Hermann, W. Quantifying Global Exergy Resources. Energy. 31:12, 1685-1702 (2006)
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Exploratory Programs

Nanowire-Nanocrystal Multiexciton Solar Cells
  • J. Zhu, H. Peng, C. K. Chan, Yi Cui “Hyperbranched Lead Selenide Nanowire Networks” Nano Lett. 7, 1095-1099 (2007)