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- 5Glancing angle deposition
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- 1Adeyenuwo, Adegboyega P.
- 1Bezuidenhout, Louis Wentzel
- 1Guo, Y.
- 1Jacob, Z.
- 1Krause, Kathleen
- 1LaForge, Joshua M
- 2Brett, Michael (Electrical and Computer Engineering)
- 2Brett, Michael J. (Electrical and Computer Engineering)
- 1Brett, Michael J (Electrical and Computer Engineering)
- 1Buriak, Jillian (Chemistry)
- 1Chen, Jie (Electrical and Computer Engineering)
- 1Dew, Steve K. (Electrical and Computer Engineering)
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Fall 2016
The lead sulfide colloidal quantum dots (PbS CQD) solar cell has attracted wide attention in recent years for its facile fabrication process and low cost. However, the power conversion efficiency (PCE) of PbS CQD cell is still low due to the trade-off between light absorption and carrier...
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Advanced methods in Glancing Angle Deposition to control thin film morphology, microstructure and texture
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Structuring of material on the nanoscale is enabling new functional materials and improving existing technologies. Glancing angle deposition (GLAD) is a physical vapor deposition technique that enables thin film fabrication with engineered columnar structures on the (10 to 100) nm scales. In this...
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Spring 2013
Organic photovoltaic cells (OPVs)are promising devices for inexpensive power generation from sunlight. Organic semiconductors, the basic materials for OPVs, can be fabricated using a broad range of fabrication technologies from vapor deposition to solution processing. Upon light absorption,...
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Fall 2012
In studies of nanoscale materials, electron tomography (ET) can be used to obtain three dimensional information on the morphology and spatial distribution of nanoparticles. Electron tomography records a tilt series of projected images of an object and then mathematically reconstructs a 3D map of...
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Spring 2012
Fabrication of nanofeatures with precisely defined size and ordering is essential for a broad range of technologically important applications, including integrated circuit production. Self-organizing block copolymers are capable of patterning substrates with nanoscale precision. This thesis...
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Fall 2012
Glancing angle deposition (GLAD) is a thin film fabrication technique capable of creating arrays of nanocolumns from numerous materials. Optimizing these films for applications requires an understanding of their growth, prompting research into the columns’ growth scaling behaviour. Columns are...
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Spring 2012
Electron Beam Lithography (EBL) is a powerful tool for structuring materials at the deep nanoscale. Modeling and simulation of electron-beam interactions at this length scale is vital to understanding and optimizing nanofabrication using EBL. The low to high voltage (5 keV – 100 keV) regimes of...
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Fabrication and characterization of PZT nanorods and nanohexagons with applications in piezoelectric transducers
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All ultrasound devices/sensors use piezoelectric transducers to generate/receive ultrasound. These transducers are made of Pb (Zr0.53Ti0.47) O3 (PZT) materials. In this article, we report a new way of fabricating PZT material with interesting nanorod and nanohexagon shapes. The PZT nanohexagons...