Designer optoelectronics – quantum mechanics for new materials

"Imagine specifying exactly how you want a new material to behave, handing those specs to an engineer, and getting back a brand-new material with exactly the qualities you need.

"That's what the EU-funded project NATCO (for Novel Advanced Transparent Conductive Oxides) set out to do. They designed and developed novel transparent conductive oxides(TCOs) to exacting specifications by applyingquantum mechanics to predict a material's optical and a