Beginning with a review of problem set six, this lecture overviews climate change, covers solar photovoltaics, solar cells, the electron,  how computational QM can impact solar PV, and introduces dye-sensitized solar PV.

Lecture 10: Solar photovoltaics

This lesson reviews problem set five and other examples, goes over previously covered topics for the upcoming quiz, and continues with discussion of energy, renewable energy, fossil fuel, data and motivations for alternative fuels.

Lecture 9: Some review and introduction to solar photovoltaics

This lecture begins with a brief review of lattices, band structure, and Fermi function, and continues with discussion of electrical, optical, magnetic, transport, and vibrational properties of solids.

Lecture 8: Advance properties of materials: What else can we do?

This lecture begins with inspiration for student projects, a review of the previous lesson, and continues with structural properties, band structure including in-class simulations, calculating density of states, and metals/insulators.

Lecture 7: Quantum modeling of solids: Basic properties

The lecture discusses hydrogen storage, hydrogen as fuel, crystal symmetries, lattices and inverse lattices, Brillouian zone, periodic potentials, Bloch's theorem, and energy bands.

Lecture 6: Hydrogen storage, and atoms to molecules

This lecture reviews energy levels and continues from the previous session on solar thermal fuels. There are interactive calculations and live simulations, and discussion about  candidate fuels.

Lecture 5: Application of QM modeling: Solar thermal fuels (II)

This lecture reviews previous lessons,  and covers quantum chemistry vs. density functional theory, with some interactive calculation and discussion about candidate fuels.

Lecture 4: Application of QM modeling: Solar thermal fuels (I)

This lecture briefly reviews the previous lesson, discusses the many-body problem, Hartree and Hartree-Fock, density functional theory (DFT), and  covers computational approaches, modeling software, and  PWscf (plane-wave self-consistent field) input.

Lecture 3: From many-body to single-particle: Quantum modeling of molecules

This lecture reviews quantization, wave aspect, double-slit experiment, Schrödinger, and discusses the hydrogen atom as a real-world example, spin and spin history, Pauli's principle, the periodic table, and concludes with simulations on NanoHub.org.

This lecture reviews quantization, wave aspect, double-slit experiment, Schrödinger, and discusses the hydrogen atom as a real-world example, spin and spin history, Pauli's principle, the periodic table, and concludes with simulations on <a href="http://NanoHub.org" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">NanoHub.org</a>.

Lecture 2: Practice makes perfect

This lecture discusses the theory of quantum mechanics (QM), modeling and simulation, why QM is useful, and how it grew out of classical physics, and concludes with some simple examples.

Lecture 1: It's a quantum world: The theory of quantum mechanics

The second half of the course, taught by Prof Jeff Grossman, covers atomistic quantum modeling of materials, and explores some areas of application based on computational models.

Lecture 0: Introduction to Part II: Quantum mechanical methods

Introduction to Modeling and Simulation

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