Dear Psi-k community,

The submission deadline for abstracts for next years' APS March Meeting (March 14-18, 2016 - Baltimore, MD) is Friday, November 6, 2015 at 5:00 p.m. EST. We would like to draw your attention to Focus Topic 16.1.6 on "Theory and Simulation of Excited-state Phenomena in Semiconductors and Nanostructures" that Emmanouil Kioupakis and I organizing for this conference:

http://www.aps.org/meetings/march/scientific/focus3.cfm#1616

Electronic excitations play a crucial role in the operation and performance of electronic and optoelectronic devices. Understanding their properties and their real-time dynamics is important, both from a fundamental and applied point of view.

This Focus Topic aims to highlight recent work on how hot carriers in semiconductors and nanostructures are generated, transition between excited states, transfer energy to the lattice, and how they recombine with each other. Coupled electron-ion dynamics is the origin of interesting physics crucial for understanding photo-catalysis, surface chemical reactions, scintillators, or radiation shielding. Moreover, the ratio of radiative to non-radiative recombination rates determines the efficiency of light-emitting devices and theoretical studies of non-radiative carrier recombination emerge as an active research topic. Understanding how these properties are modified at the nanoscale is necessary.

We invite contributions from all methodological perspectives (GW, BSE, TDDFT, hybrids, QMC, ...), so if you are working in these fields of research, please consider submitting your contributed abstract to this focus session!

Have a pleasant fall semester! With best regards,

  Emmanouil Kioupakis and André Schleife