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Luminescent Solar Concentrators (LSCs) consist of a waveguide coupled with photovoltaic cells. UCSC's design, targeting greenhouses, utilizes fluorescent dyes that convert light unused by plants to wavelengths suitable for photosynthesis.

The Materials Synthesis Lab, includes molecular beam epitaxy, pulsed laser deposition, and sputtering thin film growth equipment. The Lederman group in the seeks to understand the fundamental properties of materials in reduced dimensions. Of particular interest are properties resulting from interfaces between dissimilar materials.

The Velasco Group: nanodevices, low temperature transport, and STM. At the nanoscale, quantum mechanical effects reign supreme and when disorder is subdued many-body physics emerges, leading to new and unexpected physical phenomena. Low temperature transport, scanning tunneling microscopy (STM), and the development of new nanofabrication techniques will be employed to perform these studies.

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Department News

October 29, 2021Professor Aris Alexandradinata publishes Temperature dependence of quantum oscillations from non-parabolic dispersions in Nature Communications
January 20, 2022Distinguished Professor Emeritus Joel R. Primack on James Webb Space Telescope Joins the League of Super-Telescopes
May 12, 2021Professor Steven Ritz 2021 Accessibility Champion Awardee

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