User:PChemMan/sandbox

The Center for Advanced Solar Photophysics (CASP) is an Energy Frontier Research Center sponsored by the United States Department of Energy Office of Science that was established in 2009. The goal of CASP is to explore and exploit the unique physics of nanostructured materials to boost the efficiency of solar energy conversion. This goal is pursued by investigating novel light-matter interactions, controlled excited-state dynamics, and engineered carrier-carrier coupling.

Research Thrusts
The research at CASP concentrates on the interplay of three main areas :


 * Novel Physical Principles - for efficient capture and conversion of light into electrical charges via quantum confinement, plasmonic, and photonic effects.


 * Charge Manipulation and Exploratory Devices - for proof-of-principle device structures that exploit the emergent physics of the nanoscale regime.


 * Novel Nanoscale Materials - for probing and controlling the fundamental physics of the nanoscale size regime, and for applications in exploratory devices.

Participating Institutions
CASP is a partnership between researchers located at two national laboratories and five academic institutions :


 * Los Alamos National Laboratory
 * National Renewable Energy Laboratory
 * University of Colorado
 * University of Minnesota
 * Colorado School of Mines
 * University of California-Irvine
 * George Mason University