A soft lithography route to nanopatterned photovoltaic devices

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 7047, Issue , 2008, Pages

  Williams, Stuart S ^a   Hampton, Meredith J ^a   Gowrishankar, Vignesh ^b   Ding, I Kang ^b   Zhang, Lei ^a   Ko, Doo Hyun ^a   Templeton, Joseph L ^a   DeSimone, Joseph M ^a,c   McGehee, Michael D ^b   Samulski, Edward T ^a  

^a The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill   (United States)

^b Stanford University   (United States)

^c North Carolina State University   (United States)

Author keywords

2D array; Conjugated polymer; Nanopatterns; Perfluoropolyether; Photovoltaics; Polythiophene; PRINT; Soft lithography; Titania

Indexed keywords

ABS RESINS; CADMIUM COMPOUNDS; CELLS; CONVERSION EFFICIENCY; CYTOLOGY; FABRICATION; HYBRID MATERIALS; LITHOGRAPHY; NANOIMPRINT LITHOGRAPHY; NANOSTRUCTURED MATERIALS; NANOTECHNOLOGY; ORGANIC POLYMERS; PHOTORESISTS; PHOTOVOLTAIC EFFECTS; POLYMERS; SEMICONDUCTING CADMIUM COMPOUNDS; SOLAR CELLS; SOLAR ENERGY; SULFUR COMPOUNDS; SURFACE CHEMISTRY; SURFACE TENSION; SWITCHING CIRCUITS; TITANIUM DIOXIDE; TITANIUM OXIDES; TWO DIMENSIONAL; WETTING; ZINC OXIDE;

2D ARRAY; NANOPATTERNS; PERFLUOROPOLYETHER; PHOTOVOLTAICS; POLYTHIOPHENE; PRINT; SOFT LITHOGRAPHY; TITANIA;

HETEROJUNCTIONS;

EID: 56249122935     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.794853     Document Type: Conference Paper

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