Professor Sahar Sharifzadeh
Professor Sahar Sharifzadeh
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Division of Materials Science and Engineering
Boston University
Host: Professor Renee Frontiera
Understanding the Optoelectronic Properties of 1D Materials from First-Principles Theory
Theory and computation provide important tools for understanding and predicting material properties on the atomic scale, and guiding synthesis and experimentation. In this talk, I will present our recent advances in applying state-of-the-art first-principles computational methods to understand the excited-state electronic properties of 1D-stacked organic assemblies and single walled carbon nanotubes (SWCNTs). In particular, we explore the role that structural complexity, due to the presence of defects and vibrations, plays on electronic and optical excitations in these materials, and develop physical intuition to explain these phenomena.
Sahar Sharifzadeh
Dr. Sahar Sharifzadeh is an Associate Professor at Boston University. She obtained her PhD from Princeton University, working under the guidance of Prof. Emily Carter, and subsequently joined the Molecular Foundry at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory as a postdoctoral fellow and project scientist in the group of Dr. Jeffrey Neaton. She joined Boston University in 2014 as an Assistant Professor. Prof. Sharifzadeh was awarded the Department of Energy Early Career Award in 2017, the National Science Foundation Early Career Award in 2019, and the Boston University College of Engineering Early Career Award in 2019. Her research focuses on first-principles computational modelling of materials.
