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First ab initio method for characterizing hot carriers

DOE/Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Berkeley Lab researchers have developed the first ab initio method for characterizing the properties of 'hot carriers' in semiconductors. This should help clear a major road block to the development of new, more efficient solar cells.

Journal: Physical Review Letters
Funder: US Department of Energy's Office of Science, National Science Foundation

Peering into giant planets from in and out of this world

DOE/Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Lawrence Livermore scientists for the first time have experimentally re-created the conditions that exist deep inside giant planets, such as Jupiter, Uranus and many of the planets recently discovered outside our solar system.

Journal: Nature

Fundamental chemistry findings could help extend Moore's Law

DOE/Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Peer-Reviewed Publication

In a bid to continue decreasing transistor size while increasing computation and energy efficiency, chip-maker Intel has partnered with researchers from the US Department of Energy's Lawrence Berkeley National Lab to design an entirely new kind of resist. Results could be easily incorporated by companies that make resist, and find their way into manufacturing lines as early as 2017.

Journal: Nanotechnology
Funder: DOE/US Department of Energy, JSR Micro, Intel

Uncertainty gives scientists new confidence in search for novel materials

DOE/SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Scientists at Stanford University and the Department of Energy's SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory have found a way to estimate uncertainties in computer calculations that are widely used to speed the search for new materials for industry, electronics, energy, drug design and a host of other applications. The technique, reported in the July 11 issue of Science, should quickly be adopted in studies that produce some 30,000 scientific papers per year.

Journal: Science

Postcards from the photosynthetic edge

DOE/Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Using the world's most powerful x-ray laser, an international collaboration led by Berkeley Lab researchers took femtosecond 'snapshots' of water oxidation in photosystem II, the only known biological system able to harness sunlight for splitting the water molecule. The results should help advance the development of artificial photosynthesis for clean, green and renewable energy.

Journal: Nature Communications
Funder: DOE/US Department of Energy, National Institutes of Health

DARPA selects Lawrence Livermore to develop world's first neural device to restore memory

DOE/Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
Grant and Award Announcement

The Department of Defense's Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) awarded Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory up to $2.5 million to develop an implantable neural device with the ability to record and stimulate neurons within the brain to help restore memory, DARPA officials announced this week.

Funder: Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency

New discovery in living cell signaling

DOE/Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Peer-Reviewed Publication

A breakthrough discovery into how living cells process and respond to chemical information could help advance the development of treatments for a large number of cancers and other cellular disorders that have been resistant to therapy.

Journal: Science
Funder: National Institutes of Health

Up in flames: Evidence confirms combustion theory

DOE/Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Researchers at the Department of Energy's Lawrence Berkeley National Lab (Berkeley Lab) and the University of Hawaii have uncovered the first step in the process that transforms gas-phase molecules into solid particles like soot and other carbon-based compounds.

Journal: Nanotechnology
Funder: DOE/US Department of Energy

Not much force: Berkeley researchers detect smallest force ever measured

DOE/Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Berkeley Lab researchers have detected the smallest force ever measured -- approximately 42 yoctonewtons -- using a unique optical trapping system that provides ultracold atoms. A yoctonewton is one septillionth of a newton.

Journal: Science

Advanced light source provides new look at skyrmions

DOE/Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Peer-Reviewed Publication

At Berkeley Lab's Advanced Light Source, researchers for the first time have used x-rays to observe and study skyrmions, subatomic quasiparticles that could play a key role in future spintronic technologies.

Journal: Physical Review Letters
Funder: US Department of Energy's Office of Science