Energy Seminar - week 3: Functional materials for energy efficient devices - From smart windows to computing devices - Harish Bhaskaran speaking in person
Harish Bhaskaran will speak in person at the ECI, Oxford University Centre for the Environment, South Parks Road, Oxford. If you wish to join online please register (link below) to automatically receive the TEAMS webinar link.
Summary: As our knowledge of materials at the nanoscale has grown, so has our knowledge of how to structure such devices at the nanoscale. After all, it is the two acting in concert – the material and the structure – that gives rise to functionality. The area of functional materials has a third knob – what happens if we can actively change how the material behaves? That’s how silicon chips work. In this talk, I will talk about other classes of functional material that can manipulate light and electricity. And if one can do that actively, using new device structures, there are many possibilities – especially as one reduces volumes to nanoscale dimensions, the energy requirement reduce dramatically, opening up a tantalizing range of possibilities – I will talk about two such possibilities and how device design is crucial.
Date: 25 October 2022, 17:00 (Tuesday, 3rd week, Michaelmas 2022)
Venue: Dyson Perrins Building, off South Parks Road OX1 3QY
Venue Details: Environmental Change Institute, Atmosphere Room,OUCE, Oxford
Speaker: Harish Bhaskaran (Materials, Oxford)
Organising department: Environmental Change Institute
Organiser: Oxford Energy Network
Organiser contact email address: info@energy.ox.ac.uk
Host: Robin Morris (Oxford Energy Convenor)
Part of: Oxford Energy Seminar Series 2022-2023
Booking required?: Recommended
Booking url: https://bit.ly/3JP0NiJ
Audience: Public
Editor: Anne Ryan