{"id":1622,"date":"2013-05-01T15:00:49","date_gmt":"2013-05-01T15:00:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/artscistaging1.case.edu\/?p=1622"},"modified":"2017-01-24T20:13:09","modified_gmt":"2017-01-24T20:13:09","slug":"aluminum-zinc-oxide-transparent-conductors-for-optical-cavity-enhanced-polymer-photovoltaics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/casgroups.case.edu\/physics-senior-projects\/aluminum-zinc-oxide-transparent-conductors-for-optical-cavity-enhanced-polymer-photovoltaics\/","title":{"rendered":"Aluminum zinc oxide transparent conductors for optical cavity enhanced polymer photovoltaics"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3 style=\"text-align: center\">Emily Griffin with Ken Singer<\/h3>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center\"><a href=\"https:\/\/artscimedia.case.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/176\/2013\/05\/15022530\/Griffin-Singer-2013-1.pdf\">Aluminum zinc oxide transparent conductors for optical cavity enhanced polymer photovoltaics<\/a><\/h3>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><a href=\"https:\/\/artscimedia.case.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/176\/2013\/05\/15022347\/Griffin-Singer-2013-1-1.pdf\">[paper]<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Indium tin oxide is the ubiquitous transparent conductor used in all liquid crystal displays and thin film photovoltaic devices.\u00a0 Indium, however, is a rare and relatively expensive material, leading to intense research to replace it with more abundant materials.\u00a0 Aluminum zinc oxide (AZO) is a favored material for this purpose.\u00a0 We will study how AZO might be best used in polymer photovoltaic devices, building on past research examining strong coupling between the optical cavity modes defined by the electrodes and the semiconductor absorption.\u00a0 This project will focus on deposition and characterization of the optical properties of AZO as an electrode, where the optical constants of AZO will be determined by spectroscopic ellipsometry.\u00a0 This data will be then used in optical transfer matrix simulations of device structures to study and optimize cavity\/material interactions and device absorption. Devices based on these designs will be constructed and characterized.\u00a0 This understanding will help to increase the power conversion efficiency of polymer photovoltaic devices.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Emily Griffin with Ken Singer<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/artscimedia.case.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/176\/2013\/05\/15022530\/Griffin-Singer-2013-1.pdf\">Aluminum zinc oxide transparent conductors for optical cavity enhanced polymer photovoltaics<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><a href=\"https:\/\/artscimedia.case.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/176\/2013\/05\/15022347\/Griffin-Singer-2013-1-1.pdf\">[paper]<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Indium tin oxide is the ubiquitous transparent conductor used in all liquid crystal displays and thin film photovoltaic devices.\u00a0 Indium, however, is a rare and relatively expensive material, leading to intense research to replace it with more abundant materials.\u00a0 Aluminum zinc oxide (AZO) is a favored material for this purpose.\u00a0 We will study how AZO might be best used in polymer photovoltaic devices, building on past research examining strong coupling between the optical cavity modes defined by the electrodes and the semiconductor absorption.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/casgroups.case.edu\/physics-senior-projects\/aluminum-zinc-oxide-transparent-conductors-for-optical-cavity-enhanced-polymer-photovoltaics\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading&#8230; <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Aluminum zinc oxide transparent conductors for optical cavity enhanced polymer photovoltaics<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":245,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":""},"categories":[45,1,39,12,21],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/casgroups.case.edu\/physics-senior-projects\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1622"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/casgroups.case.edu\/physics-senior-projects\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/casgroups.case.edu\/physics-senior-projects\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/casgroups.case.edu\/physics-senior-projects\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/245"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/casgroups.case.edu\/physics-senior-projects\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1622"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/casgroups.case.edu\/physics-senior-projects\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1622\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3009,"href":"https:\/\/casgroups.case.edu\/physics-senior-projects\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1622\/revisions\/3009"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/casgroups.case.edu\/physics-senior-projects\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1622"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/casgroups.case.edu\/physics-senior-projects\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1622"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/casgroups.case.edu\/physics-senior-projects\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1622"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}