Media Coverage of SST Group

On occasion, articles or news items appear in magazines reporting the work of the Solid State Theory group. This section gives information on these reports.

1. Fortune Magazine features the research of NREL's SST group in their article on new materials.

   

   The April 17, 2000 issue of Fortune Magazine (the 500 issue) featured development of new materials in its "Industrial Management & Technology" section. The work of the NREL-SST group was one of four research programs described in this article, entitled "What's Cooking in the Chem Labs", by Ivan Amato (I. Amato, FORTUNE, pp. 454[C]-454[V], Apr. 17, 2000). The coverage was based on the research of the SST group in the past few years, involving the prediction of new materials using quantum mechanics and statistical mechanics. For details of the research, see our web pages on New Materials and Inverse Bandstructure. Part of this work featured by Fortune was originally published in the article "The inverse band-structure problem of finding an atomic configuration with given electronic properties" (A. Franceschetti and A. Zunger, Nature 402, 60, 1999) by Alberto Franceshetti and Alex Zunger.

2. The January, 2000, issue of "Materials Research Bulletin" highlights NREL's SST group's papers on GaInP₂ and GaAsN.

   The January 2000 issue (Vol. 25) of MRS Bulletin covered in its "Research/Researchers" section the recent papers published by Mattila, Wei, and Zunger in Physical Review Letters (T. Mattila, S.H. Wei and A. Zunger, "Electronic structure of sequence mutations in ordered GaInP2," Physical Review Letters 83, 2010-2013 (1999). and in Rapid Communications (T. Mattila, S.H. Wei and A. Zunger, "Localization and anticrossing of electron levels in GaAsN alloys," Phys. Rev. B. 60, R11245-R11248,1999). The writeup by the staff is entitled "NREL Researchs Explain Anomalous Photoluminescence of Ordered GaInP₂ and Pressure-Dependence of Transitions in Alloys of GaAs_1-xN_x".

3. Ozolins and Zunger's work on phonon instabilities reported in "Nature" magazine

   "Nature" magazine covered a PRL article by Ozolins and Zunger. The April 1, 1999, issue of Nature (vol. 398, pp. 372-375, 1999) contains a writeup on the paper entitled "Theory of Systematic Absence of NaCl-Type (-Sn-Type) High Pressure Phases in Covalent (Ionic) Semiconductors", by V. Ozolins and A. Zunger (Phys. Rev. Lett. 82, 767-770, 1999). The writeup by Mark S. T. Bukowinski is entitled "Phonons rewrite structural recipies".

4. Inverse Band-Structure work of Franceschetti and Zunger reported in "Nanotech Alert"

   The November 5, 1999, issue of "Nanotech Alert" contains a piece entitled "Reverse engineer atomic electronic structures" by their staff writer reporting on the recent paper "The inverse band-structure problem of finding an atomic configuration with given electronic properties" (A. Franceschetti and A. Zunger, Nature 402, 60, 1999) by Alberto Franceshetti and Alex Zunger.

5. Inside R&D spreads word on Franceschetti and Zunger's Inverse Band-Structure Method

   The November 19, 1999, issue of "Inside R&D" contains a piece entitled "Work backwords to discover electronic properties" by their staff writer reporting on the recent paper "The inverse band-structure problem of finding an atomic configuration with given electronic properties" (A. Franceschetti and A. Zunger, Nature 402, 60, 1999) by Alberto Franceshetti and Alex Zunger.

6. SST Quantum Dot calcuations reported as interesting new DOE funded research in "Energy Research News"

7. Newspaper calls attention to highly cited physicist

   The classification of 517,000 physicists according to the number of times that their papers were cited in 1981-1995 created significant interest. The placement of Alex Zunger as the 39th most cited physicist was the subject of an article entitled "Golden physicist listed as top brain", by Joeseph B. Verringia (Rocky Mountain News, March 5, 1998).

8. Perdew and Zunger article a "Classic"

   A "citation classic" is defined by the Institute for Scientific Information (ISI) as a highly cited publication, as identified by the Science Citation Index (SCI). In general, a publication cited more than 400 times should be considered a classic. The paper entitled "Self interaction corrections to density-functional approximations for many electron systems", by J. P. Perdew and A. Zunger (Phys. Rev. B 23, 5048-79, 1981) was declared a citation classic, having been cited more than 1,125 times.

9. SST Quantum Dot Calculations featured on the cover of "MRS Bulletin"

10. Cover story of "MRS Bulletin" showcases SST work on Spontaneous Ordering in Semiconductors

11. Vice President of R&D in ARCO Solar, Dr. C. Gay, praises PV theory work at NREL