The National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Chemistry awarded a $424,443 project grant to Yale University to develop theoretical and computational tools for understanding how electrons in hybrid organic-inorganic perovskite materials interact with circularly polarized light. The research, led by Dr. Diana Qiu, aims to advance the optical control of electron angular momentum and electrical control of photon angular momentum, which is a key step towards realizing smaller, faster, and more efficient spin-optoelectronic and chiral photonic technologies. Key deliverables include developing new software codes to model complex electron-electron and electron-ion interactions, integrating these tools into a computational framework, and applying the framework to study chiral hybrid perovskites. The project also includes efforts to incorporate these computational materials science capabilities into Yale's curriculum and outreach programs targeting New Haven high school students. This award was made under the NSF's Mathematical and Physical Sciences (CFDA 47.049) program.
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