Atmospheric plasma deposition of optical and optoelectronic materials for photovoltaic applications
Abstract/Contents
- Abstract
- With global energy consumption expected to rise above 500 quadrillion BTUs by 2030, aggressive research and development is underway to provide sustainable energy production through the proliferation of thin film photovoltaics. In order to build significant momentum towards lowering the cost of solar energy production below 0.03 $/kWhr over the next ten years, we must consider new materials and synthesis routes which better emphasize scalability, do no compromise on material quality, and enhance the overall thermomechanical reliability of the solar module. One such method is atmospheric plasma deposition, an open-air plasma enhanced thin film growth technique. In this dissertation, I present novel atmospheric plasma chemistries for the deposition of several thin film materials, enabling an all open-air processing route for the fabrication of critical layers in thin film solar modules. In the first and second chapter, I introduce and discuss in detail critical concepts used throughout the work, including spectroscopic and mechanical models. Next, I discuss atmospheric deposition of anti-reflective coatings, establishing strategies for controlling the refractive index of coatings derived from metal alkoxide precursors. In the following two chapters, I translate these metal alkoxide chemistries to a scalable, blown arc discharge and discuss both the molecular structure of the coating as well as describe the as-deposited superhydrophilicity of the coatings. In the final chapter, I discuss a new methodology for rapidly crystallizing metal halide perovskite thin films, a solar absorber material. Atmospheric plasma deposition enables open-air thin film deposition of high quality optical and optoelectronic materials.
Description
| Type of resource | text |
|---|---|
| Form | electronic resource; remote; computer; online resource |
| Extent | 1 online resource. |
| Place | California |
| Place | [Stanford, California] |
| Publisher | [Stanford University] |
| Copyright date | 2018; ©2018 |
| Publication date | 2018; 2018 |
| Issuance | monographic |
| Language | English |
Creators/Contributors
| Author | Hovish, Michael Q |
|---|---|
| Degree supervisor | Dauskardt, R. H. (Reinhold H.) |
| Thesis advisor | Dauskardt, R. H. (Reinhold H.) |
| Thesis advisor | McIntyre, Paul Cameron |
| Thesis advisor | Salleo, Alberto |
| Degree committee member | McIntyre, Paul Cameron |
| Degree committee member | Salleo, Alberto |
| Associated with | Stanford University, Department of Materials Science and Engineering. |
Subjects
| Genre | Theses |
|---|---|
| Genre | Text |
Bibliographic information
| Statement of responsibility | Michael Q. Hovish. |
|---|---|
| Note | Submitted to the Department of Materials Science and Engineering. |
| Thesis | Thesis Ph.D. Stanford University 2018. |
| Location | electronic resource |
Access conditions
- Copyright
- © 2018 by Michael Quinlan Hovish
- License
- This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial 3.0 Unported license (CC BY-NC).
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