Results and Publications

Research Areas & Activities Solar Energy Rational Organic Semiconductor Material Design A Pathway Towards Breakthrough Performance in Solar Cells Design and Fabrication of the First All-Carbon-Based Solar Cell Upconverting Electrodes for Improved Solar Energy Conversion Advanced Electron Transport Materials for Application in Organic Photovoltaics (OPV) Ultra-High Efficiency Thermophotovoltaic Solar Cells Using Metallic Photonic Crystals as Intermediate Absorber and Emitter Nanostructured Materials for High-Efficiency Thin Film Solar Cells Photon Enhanced Thermionic Emission (PETE) for Solar Concentrator Systems Hot Carrier Solar Cell: Implementation of the Ultimate Photovoltaic Converter Plasmonic Photovoltaics Self-sorting of Metallic Carbon Nanotubes for High Performance Large Area Low Cost Transparent Electrodes Artificial Photosynthesis: Membrane-Supported Assemblies that Use Sunlight to Split Water Lateral Nanoconcentrator Nanowire Multijunction Photovoltaic Cells Molecular Solar Cells Advanced Materials and Devices for Low-Cost and High-Performance Organic Photovoltaic Cells Inorganic Nanocomposite Solar Cells by ALD Nanostructured Silicon-Based Tandem Solar Cells Photosynthetic Bioelectricity Nanostructured Metal-Organic Composite Solar Cells Ordered Bulk Heterojunction Photovoltaic Cells Biomass Energy Hydrogen Advanced Combustion CO₂ Capture CO₂ Storage Advanced Materials & Catalysts Advanced Coal Advanced Transportation Advanced Electric Grid Grid Storage Other Renewables Integrated Assessment Advanced Nuclear Energy Geoengineering Exploratory Efforts All Activities Analysis Activities Technical Reports

Research

Inorganic Nanocomposite Solar Cells by Atomic Layer Deposition (ALD)

Start Date: September 2005
Status: Completed

Investigators

Stacey Bent, Department of Chemical Engineering; James Harris, Department of Electrical Engineering; Michael McGehee, Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Stanford University

Annual Reports

Publications

King, J. S., A. Wittstock, J. Biener, S. O. Kucheyev, Y. M. Wang, T. F. Baumann, S. Giri, A. V. Hamza, M. Baeumer, and S. F. Bent. “Ultra-low loading Pt nanocatalysts prepared by atomic layer deposition on carbon aerogels.” Nano Letters Vol. 8, No. 8, pp. 2405-2409, doi:10.1021/nl801299z (2008). http://dx.doi.org/10.1021/nl801299z
J.S. King, P.B. Tran, V Chawla, M.W. Rowell, B.M. Clemens, M.D. McGehee, and S.F. Bent, "Low-Cost Routes to Chalcogenide Thin Film Solar Cells," Materials Research Society, Spring Meeting, San Francisco, CA, March 24-28, 2008.
E. R. Pickett, J. S. King, M. W. Rowell, B. M. Clemens, M. D. McGehee, J. S. Harris, and S.F. Bent, "Optimization of Inorganic Nanostructured Solar Cell Design Using Drift-Diffusion and Hydrodynamic Simulations," Materials Research Society, Spring Meeting, SaFrancisco, CA, March 24-28, 2008.
V. Chawla, J. S. King, M. W. Rowell, M.D. McGehee, S.F. Bent, and B.M.Clemens, "Cu₂ZnSnS₄ Thin Films for Solar Cell Applications Prepared by Co-sputtering," Materials Research Society, Spring Meeting, San Francisco, CA, March 24-28, 2008.
J.S. King, B.P. Tran, and S.F. Bent, "New Approaches to Thin-Film Inorganic Solar Cells," (invited) Stanford Photonics Research Center Annual Symposium, Stanford, CA, September 2007.
S.F. Bent, "Inorganic Nanocomposite Solar Cells," GCEP Research Symposium, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, Oct 2, 2007.

Updated September 2009