The preparation of competitive solar energy conversion technologies has been limited by the cost and efficiency of modern materials.  We have been developing new approaches to layered inorganic/organic photovoltaic materials on flexible substrates. The flexible thin film solar cell is based on a combination of organic bulk heterojunction strategies with semi-conductor nanostructures. These hybrid inorganic/organic systems require development of new materials and processing technologies in order to make them suitable for low cost roll-to-roll manufacturing. Titanium dioxide nanoparticles, conducting polymer films such as polyethylenedioxythiophene (PEDOT) and polyaniline (PANI), and self-assembled layered materials of laponite have been prepared on polyethylene terephthalate (PET) substrates. We have also explored alternative transparent conducting electrode layers for flexible substrates including doped ZnO and CVD deposited conducting polymers. In this presentation, we will explore recent advances in the preparation, processing, and testing of these hybrid photovoltaic devices completed at the new Center for Autonomous Solar Power (CASP) and the Center for Advanced Microelectronics Manufacturing (CAMM) at Binghamton University’s Center of Excellence. 

 

Prof. Wayne Jones个人简介；

Prof. Wayne Jones , earned his bachelor’s degree in chemistry from St. Michael’s College in Vermont state ,(lacated in the north east of US) and his doctorate in chemistry from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He was a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Texas, Austin. Then he joined the faculty at Binghamton in 1993. He is also a visiting professor at the University of Pennsylvania in 2000.

Winner of a Chancellor’s Award for Excellence in Teaching in 2001, Jones is founding director of the Center for Learning and Teaching, which provides resources to students and faculty to improve the teaching and learning process and hosts the Institute for Student-Centered Learning workshops each year. He also serves on the editorial board of the Journal of Educational Technology Systems.

Jones also developed and leads the Go Green Institute, an annual summer program that brings about 50 of the Southern Tier’s brightest middle-schoolers to campus for an intensive 10-day, hands-on exploration of science with a focus on a sustainable living environment.

An inorganic chemist, Jones studies photo-induced electron and energy transfer processes in inorganic and polymer systems with specific research interests in polymer sensors, photovoltaics and electronic nanomaterials. He has authored more than 125 publications and articles, holds four patents and is a Fellow of the American Chemical Society. His work has been supported by nearly $6 million in federal research grants from the National Science Foundation, the National Institutes of Health, the National Institute of Standards and Technology, the New York State Center for Advanced Technology (IEEC), and industrial partners.

Dr. Jones currently is the interim dean of Harpur College, starting on July 1st this year. Before that, he was the department chair of chemistry . In addition, he also served as deputy to the president from 2001 to 2006.

 

2012-9-10