Functional Nanoparticles for opto-electronics
Nanoparticles and sol-gel precursors allow the solution processing material classes which otherwise only can be processed via high temperatures and/or vacuum. Research focus at i-MEET is the synthesis, characterization and processing of nanoparticles for opto-electronic device applications.
Metal Oxides are becoming more and more importance as a potential successor of a—Si:H in the display and semiconductor industry. Besides, most of the solar cell technologies use various types of metal oxides as interfacial layers. Among the material systems researched at i-MEET are material classes like ZnO, TiOx, MoO3, ...
Low T printing of Silicon is a high risk / high value research effort at i-MEET, in cooperation with the ZAE Bavaria and the Energy Campus Nuremberg (EnCN). Our main interset is to design materials and processes suitable for the solution processing, conversion and recrystallization of Silicon.
Semiconducting nanoparticles are designed and researched as prototype disordered semiconductors. Research interests at i-MEET are to understand the impact of ligands on the opto-electronic properties nanoparticle layers respectively the conversion of nanoparticles into bulk semiconductors.