Related Basic Energy Sciences Project
Computational Nanophotonics: Modeling Optical Interactions and Transport
in Tailored Nanosystem Architectures
Nanophotonics is a rapidly expanding scientific discipline, with goals to
understand and control
light interactions with nanostructures. It is also very relevant to the development of
chemical and biological sensors, and nanoscience-based devices in general.
This project is a large, concerted effort in nanophotonics theory and modeling. The work spans a
range of physical scales, ranging from the most microscopic level electronic structure to
continuum level electrodynamics. An important aspect is that it involves significant applied
numerical methods, applied mathematics and software development, all aimed at the realistic
modeling of such problems, which will be shared freely with the research community. The projects is
also assembling a suite of simulation tools, termed NSTOP (Nanoscale Structure, Transport, and
Optical Properties), that is to be made freely available to the research community.
Institutions Involved
- Argonne National Laboratory - Stephen Gray, Julius Jelenick, Paul Fischer, Boyana Norris
- Northwestern University - George Schatz, Mark Ratner
- Georgia State - Mark Stockman
- University of Central Michigan - Koblar Jackson
- University of Illinois at Chicago - Sedar Ogut
Principal Investigator
Stephen Gray
mhg@bastille.cchem.berkeley.edu
Argonne National Laboratory
