Gas Phase Electrodeposition: A Programmable Multimaterial Deposition Method for Combinatorial Nanostructured Device Discovery
- 14 October 2010
- journal article
- letter
- Published by American Chemical Society (ACS) in Nano Letters
- Vol. 10 (11), 4494-4500
- https://doi.org/10.1021/nl102344r
Abstract
This article reports and applies a recently discovered programmable multimaterial deposition process to the formation and combinatorial improvement of 3D nanostructured devices. The gas-phase deposition process produces charged <5 nm particles of silver, tungsten, and platinum and uses externally biased electrodes to control the material flux and to turn deposition ON/OFF in selected domains. Domains host nanostructured dielectrics to define arrays of electrodynamic 10 × nanolenses to further control the flux to form <100 nm resolution deposits. The unique feature of the process is that material type, amount, and sequence can be altered from one domain to the next leading to different types of nanostructures including multimaterial bridges, interconnects, or nanowire arrays with 20 nm positional accuracy. These features enable combinatorial nanostructured materials and device discovery. As a first demonstration, we produce and identify in a combinatorial way 3D nanostructured electrode designs that improve light scattering, absorption, and minority carrier extraction of bulk heterojunction photovoltaic cells. Photovoltaic cells from domains with long and dense nanowire arrays improve the relative power conversion efficiency by 47% when compared to flat domains on the same substrate.Keywords
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