National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL)

The National Renewable Energy Laboratory is the primary laboratory of the United States for renewable energy and energy efficiency research and development (R&D).

Links

Links on this page suggest further interesting readings.

Principles of Semiconductor Devices

This online version of Bart Van Zeghbroeck‘s book provides semiconductor basics as well as an introduction into device analysis.

The Nano Research Group

The Nano research group at the University of Southampton focuses on the fabrication and engineering at the nanometer-length scale. The scope of research covers Nanophotonics, Biomimetics, Quantum Information Theory and Nanoelectronics.

Fractal Geometry

An introduction to the field by Michael Frame, Benoit Mandelbrot and Nial Neger, Yale University. Many concepts are visually exemplified .

Micro Nano Devices & Systems Laboratory

(MiNDS)

The group, as part of the Texas University at Dallas in Richardson, develops a variety of multifunctional devices on the micro- and submicron scale. Applications comprise  biomedical, photonic and RF/microwave systems.

Tim Kelf Homepage

Colorful examples of surface plasmon effects.

Dr. Michael Lublow

HZB

 

Renewable Energy

NEMS and MEMS

Semiconductors

Fractals

Plasmonics

Properties of Semiconductors

Look-up tables of the properties of many important semiconductors. The data were collected by the Ioffe Physical Technical Institute.

Helmholtz Zentrum für Materialien und Energie(HZB)

Located in Berlin, Germany, the HZB is affiliated with the Helmholtz-Association. The research focuses on solar energy and material science.

DFG—NSF Research Conference

To be held in October 2009, the conference is devoted to nanomaterials for novel engineering solutions. The conference is organized in a collaboration of the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) and the National Science Foundation (NSF).

216th Meeting of the Electrochemical Society

The conference will be held in Vienna, Austria, October 2009. A broad range of fundamental research and applications in the field of electrochemistry will be covered.

Conferences

Helmholtz Gemeinschaft (Helmholtz Association)

Germany’s largest scientific organization focusing on the six major areas Energy, Earth and Environment, Health, Key Technologies, Structure of Matter, Transport and Space.

Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (German Research Foundation)

Independent German research funding organization promoting research at universities and other publicly financed research institutions in Germany.

Scientific Organizations

National Science Foundation

Independent federal agency of the United States supporting all fields of fundamental science and engineering, except for medical sciences.

Surface Analysis Forum

Excellent online tutorials about almost all aspects of surface chemistry, physics and analysis.

Surface Analysis

Dynamique de Plasmons de surface

Basic information about localized surface plasmons from the Institute of Physics and Chemistry of Materials, Strasbourg. (page in French)