2013 AIChE Annual Meeting

Session: Nanomaterials for Photovoltaics II

We seek papers pertaining to the design, synthesis, fabrication, and characterization of nanomaterials and devices for solar-to-electric energy conversion. Papers describing experimental, theoretical and computational work are welcome.

Chair

William Tisdale, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Co-Chairs

Michael A. Filler, Georgia Institute of Technology
Prashant Nagpal, University of Colorado Boulder

Presentations

12:30 PM

(318a) Smaller Than the Bandgap: The Tale of Low-Energy Photons
Prashant Nagpal, Qi-C. Sun, Chih-Heng Lien

12:49 PM

(318b) Polymer-Free Near-Infrared Photovoltaics With Single Chirality (6,5) Semiconducting Carbon Nanotube Active Layers
Rishabh Jain, Rachel Howden, Kevin Tvrdy, Steven Shimizu, Andrew J. Hilmer, Thomas P. McNicholas, Karen K. Gleason, Michael Strano

01:08 PM

(318c) Suppressing Optical Absorption in Nanostructured Metal Electrodes in Photovoltaics
Sang Eon Han

01:27 PM

(318d) Nanopore-Type Black Silicon Anti-Reflection Layers Fabricated By a One-Step Silver-Assisted Chemical Etching
Andrew R. Barron, Yen-Tien Lu

01:46 PM

(318e) Band Alignment of Ternary Lead Chalcogenide Quantum Dots Via Composition and Size Tuning for Photovoltaic Applications
Axel Palmstrom, Pralay Santra, Stacey Bent

02:05 PM

(318f) Charge Transfer Structure-Reactivity Dependence of Fullerene/Single-Walled Carbon Nanotube Heterojunctions
Andrew J. Hilmer, Kevin Tvrdy, Jingqing Zhang, Michael Strano

02:24 PM

(318g) Nano- and Molecular Precursors for CdTe Photovoltaics
Matthew G. Panthani, Dmitriy Dolzhnikov, Dmitri V. Talapin, Travis Dietz, Joey Luther, Ryan Crisp

02:43 PM

(318h) Shape-Selective Formation of Ag Nanocrystals: Insights From Atomic-Scale Simulations
Kristen Fichthorn, Ya Zhou