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The Clancy group focuses on multiscale computational studies of traditional (silicon-based) and non-traditional (organic) semiconductors, especially the optimization and understanding of manufacturing processes used to fabricate electronic devices and design potentially improved semiconductor materials. The major emphasis of the group is on atomic-scale modeling, but multi-scale techniques are used to cover multiple length- and time- scales. Our studies are always closely coupled to experimental investigations undertaken in the lab of a collaborator, providing students the opportunity to combine computation and experimentation and to study with our collaborators, including international studies. The impact of our work is felt in the semiconductor fabrication industries (IBM, Applied Materials, Intel, Motorola, etc.), in the growing OLEDs display market (Kodak, DuPont, etc.). We also have a long-standing interest in the energy/sustainability arena through our studies of greenhouse gases trapped in the permafrost as hydrates. A new project will leverage the group's expertise into a study of hydrogen storage materials.

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