Results and Publications

Research Areas & Activities Solar Energy 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 Hot Carrier Solar Cell: Implementation of the Ultimate Photovoltaic Converter Photon Enhanced Thermionic Emission (PETE) for Solar Concentrator Systems Self-sorting of Metallic Carbon Nanotubes for High Performance Large Area Low Cost Transparent Electrodes Plasmonic Photovoltaics Nanostructured Materials for High-Efficiency Thin Film Solar Cells Lateral Nanoconcentrator Nanowire Multijunction Photovoltaic Cells Artificial Photosynthesis: Membrane-Supported Assemblies that Use Sunlight to Split Water 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 Electricity Distribution & Infrastructure Other Renewables Integrated Assessment Advanced Nuclear Energy Geoengineering Exploratory Projects All Activities Analysis Activities Technical Reports Solicitations

Research

Nanostructured Materials for High-Efficiency Thin Film Solar Cells

March 2008 - February 2011

Investigators

Alberto Salleo, Yi Cui, Department of Materials Science and Engineering; Peter Peumans, Department of Electrical Engineering, Stanford University

Annual Reports

Publications

Gaynor, W., G. F. Burkhard, M. D. McGehee, and P. Peumans. Advanced Materials (in press, 2011).
Gaynor, W., J.-Y. Lee and P. Peumans. "Fully solution-processed inverted polymer solar cells with laminated nanowire electrodes." ACS Nano, Vol. 4, No.1, pp. 30-34, doi:10.1021/nn900758e (2010).
Kusinski, G. J., J. R. Jokisaari, R. Noriega, L. Goris, M. Donovan, A. Salleo. "Transmission electron microscopy of solution-processed intrinsic and Al-doped ZnO nanowires for transparent electrode fabrication." Journal of Microscopy 237, 443-449 (2010).
Lee, J.-Y., S. T. Connor, Y. Cui and P. Peumans. "Semitransparent organic photovoltaic cells with laminated top electrode." Nano Letters, Vol. 10 , No. 4, pp. 1276-1279, doi:10.1021/nl903892x (2010).
Noriega, R., J. Rivnay, L. Goris, D. Kälblein, H. Klauk, K. Kern, L. M. Thompson, A. C. Palke, J. F. Stebbins, J. R. Jokisaari, G. Kusinski, and A. Salleo. "Probing the electrical properties of highly-doped Al:ZnO nanowire ensembles." Journal of Applied Physics 107, 074312-1-7 (2010).
Hu, L., H. S. Kim, J.-Y. Lee, P. Peumans and Y. Cui. "Scalable coating and properties of transparent, flexible silver nanowire electrodes." ACS Nano (in press, 2010).
Weil, B. D., S. T. Connor, and Y. Cui. "CuInS2 solar cells by air-stable ink rolling." J. Am. Chem. Soc. (In press, 2010).
Devan, R., M. Marinkovic, R. Noriega, S. Phadke, A. Salleo, and D. Knipp. "Light trapping in thin film silicon solar cells with periodic pyramid texture." Optics Express 17, 23058-23065 (2009).
S. T. Connor, C.-M. Hsu, B.Weil, Y. Cui, “ Mechanistic Studies of CuInS2 Nanocrystal Growth”, J. Am. Chem. Soc. (in press 2009).
L. Goris, R. Noriega, M. Donovan, J. Jokisaari, G. Kusinski and A. Salleo, “Intrinsic and doped zinc oxide nanowires for transparent electrode fabrication via low temperature solution synthesis”, J. of Electronic Materials 38, 586 (2009).
Rodrigo Noriega, Jonathan Rivnay, Ludwig Goris, Daniel Kälblein, Hagen Klauk, Klaus Kern, Linda Thompson, Aaron Palke, Jonathan Stebbins, Alberto Salleo, “Probing the electrical properties of highly-doped Al:ZnO single nanowires”, submitted to Nanoletters 2009.

Updated June 2011