Lin-Wang Wang
       
LBNL Staff Scientist

lwwang@lbl.gov
phone: 510-486-5571

Education
B.S., Physics, ShangHai JiaoTong University, 1985
Ph.D., Theoretical Solid State Physics, Cornell University, 1991
Postdoctoral Fellow, National Renewable Energy Lab, Colorado, 1992-1995     

Major Awards
Fellow of American Physical Society, 2006
Oversea Outstanding Young Researcher Award, National Natural Science Foundation of China, 2004

General Research Interests
Large scale total energy calculations for material simulations
Nanoscale electronic structure calculations
Beyond-LDA methods
Methodology and Software development

MSD Research Projects:
Self-assembly of Organic/Inorganic Nanocomposite Materials
Helios SERC

Personal website:
http://hpcrd.lbl.gov/~linwang
http://www.osti.gov/wyp2005/SC/wang_archive.htm

Figure: The green isosurface depicts the top of valence band electron state in a CdTe tetrapod with one arm replaced by CdSe. The small red dots are Se atoms, blue dots are Te atoms, and yellow dots are Cd atoms. The small pink dots are surface passivation atoms. The calculation is done with the charge patching method, which provides the ab initio quality electronic charge density without doing an explicit ab initio calculation. The system has 3,685 atoms excluding the surface passivation atoms.