An Overview of NREL's Solid State Theory Group

The Solid State Theory (SST) Group at NREL was established in 1978 under the direction of Alex Zunger. The group consists of three regular staff plus anywhere from five to ten post docs, research associates and visiting scientists. This group has hosted and trained 65 post doctoral fellows (visit our web page entitled "Where Are They Now?") and published over 500 papers in refereed journals (search our publications at our web page entitled "Publications by Subject") including more than 65 in Physical Review Letters and more than 50 in Rapid Communications, and delivered over 80 invited talks at major conferences around the world (including 9 at APS March Meetings). The SST Group's main areas of research include (but are not limited to):

Theory of Photovoltaic Semiconductors
Statistical & Electronic Theory of Metal and Semiconductor Alloy
Semiconductor Nanostructures
Computational Methods in First-Principles Theories

Sources of Funding include (see "Sources of Funding"):

DOE, Office of Energy Efficiency
DOE, Office of Science, Division of Materials Science

Computer facilities include NREL's 198 node mixed dual and quad-core cluster and 64 processor Opteron Linux cluster, as well access to NERSC's 9660 quad-core Cray XT4 and the 888 processor IBM p575 POWER 5 systems.

For information on employment please visit our web page about available postdoc positions.

Celebration of Thirty Years of Solid State Theory Group

On the \23th March 2009, a workshop was held celebrating the Thirty Years of the Solid State Group led by Alex Zunger. Click here for the meeting agenda and the past and current members celebration poster.