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Samuel Mao

Laser Technologies Group
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
1 Cyclotron Road MS 70-108B
Berkeley CA 94720
Office Location: 70-0111A
(510) 486-7038

Dr. Samuel Mao is a career staff scientist and principal investigator of Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. He is leading a research group of over twenty graduate students, postdoctoral and visiting scientists, developing sustainable energy technologies as well as studying the physics and applications of ultrafast laser-material interactions. He has published more than 50 refereed articles and delivered 30 invited talks at many international conferences and universities over the past few years.

This publications database is an ongoing project, and not all Division publications are represented here yet.

Publications

2010

Guo, Zeng-Shan, Lihua Zhao, Jian Pei, Zhang-Lin Zhou, Gary Gibson, James Brug, Sity Lam, and Samuel S. Mao. " CdSe/ZnS Nanoparticle Composites with Amine-Functionalized Polyfluorene Derivatives for Polymeric Light-Emitting Diodes: Synthesis, Photophysical Properties, and the Electroluminescent Performance." Macromolecules 43, no. 4 (2010): 1860-1866.
Braun, Artur, Bongjin S. Mun, Yun Sun, Z. Liu, Oliver Gröning, R. Mäder, Selma Erat, Xueyuan Zhang, Samuel S. Mao, Ekaterina Pomjakushina et al. "Correlation of conductivity and angle integrated valence band photoemission characteristics in single crystal iron perovskites for 300 K < T < 800 K: Comparison of surface and bulk sensitive methods." Journal of Electron Spectroscopy and Related Phenomena 181, no. 1 (2010): 56-62.
Shen, Shaohua, Liejin Guo, Xiaobo Chen, Feng Ren, and Samuel S. Mao. "Effect of Ag2S on solar-driven photocatalytic hydrogen evolution of nanostructured CdS." International Journal of Hydrogen Energy 35, no. 13 (2010): 7110-7115.
Barcelo, Steven J., and Samuel S. Mao. "High Throughput optical characterization of alloy hydrogenation." International Journal of Hydrogen Energy (2010).
Barcelo, Steven J., and Samuel S. Mao. "Hydrogen Fuel Cell Technology and its potential for aviation." Professional Pilots 44 (2010): 70.
Barcelo, Steven J., Matthew Rogers, Costas P. Grigoropoulos, and Samuel S. Mao. "Hydrogen Storage property of sandwiched magnesium hydride naoparticle thin film." International Journal of Hydrogen Energy (2010).
Ho, Tony, Samuel S. Mao, and Ralph Greif. "Improving efficiency of high-concentrator photovoltaics by cooling with two-phase forced convection." International Journal of Energy Research 34, no. 14 (2010): 1257-1271.
Zormpa, Vasileia, Xiaobo Chen, and Samuel S. Mao. "Superhydrophilic TiO2 surface without photocatalytic activation ." Applied Physics Letter 96, no. 9 (2010).
Li, Junjie, Xuan Wang, Zhaoyang Chen, Richard Clinite, Samuel S. Mao, Pengfei Zhu, Zhengming Sheng, Jie Zhang, and Jianming Cao. "Ultrafast electron beam imaging of femtosecond laser-induced plasma dynamics." Journal of Applied Physics 107, no. 8 (2010).
Owens, Travis, Samuel S. Mao, Erin K. Canfield, Costas P. Grigoropoulos, Xianglei Mao, and Richard E. Russo. "Ultrafast thin-film laser-induced breakdown spectroscopy of doped oxides." Applied Optics 49 (2010): C67-C69.