Description
The fabrication of high performance integrated circuits provides examples of the most sophisticated manufacturing methods, as well as the most high performance materials, used in any area of modern technology. The advanced functional systems they provide are ones that are generally characterized by a massive integration of circuit elements within compact, rigid, and essentially planar form factor devices. New means of fabrication and enabling nanomembrane materials are providing means through which it is possible to lift these constraints – doing so in ways that both provide capacities for high performance while enabling new opportunities in technology. Examples include: light weight, large area, high-performance electronics, optics, and photonics; electrooptical systems with curvilinear shapes and capacities for accommodating demanding forms of mechanical flexure; new device form factors for use in sensing and imaging that integrate responsive materials in 3D with demanding nanometer design rules; functional biomaterials, and hybrid systems for lighting, energy storage, and photovoltaic energy conversion that provide a potentially transformational approach to supplant current technologies with high performance, low cost alternatives. Taken together, the results of recent research illustrate important opportunities for exploiting advances in materials in synergy within additive and physical means of patterning and fabrication. In this lecture, the author will explore several exemplary applications taken from this study, and specifically highlight scalable approaches to high-performance integrated systems for low-cost photovoltaic energy conversion.
Recommended Citation
Nuzzo, R. (2014). Keynote – Nanomembrane materials and soft fabrication methods in sustainable energy technologies. In A. Bajaj, P. Zavattieri, M. Koslowski, & T. Siegmund (Eds.). Proceedings of the Society of Engineering Science 51st Annual Technical Meeting, October 1-3, 2014 , West Lafayette: Purdue University Libraries Scholarly Publishing Services, 2014. https://docs.lib.purdue.edu/ses2014/honors/eringen/2
Keynote – Nanomembrane materials and soft fabrication methods in sustainable energy technologies
The fabrication of high performance integrated circuits provides examples of the most sophisticated manufacturing methods, as well as the most high performance materials, used in any area of modern technology. The advanced functional systems they provide are ones that are generally characterized by a massive integration of circuit elements within compact, rigid, and essentially planar form factor devices. New means of fabrication and enabling nanomembrane materials are providing means through which it is possible to lift these constraints – doing so in ways that both provide capacities for high performance while enabling new opportunities in technology. Examples include: light weight, large area, high-performance electronics, optics, and photonics; electrooptical systems with curvilinear shapes and capacities for accommodating demanding forms of mechanical flexure; new device form factors for use in sensing and imaging that integrate responsive materials in 3D with demanding nanometer design rules; functional biomaterials, and hybrid systems for lighting, energy storage, and photovoltaic energy conversion that provide a potentially transformational approach to supplant current technologies with high performance, low cost alternatives. Taken together, the results of recent research illustrate important opportunities for exploiting advances in materials in synergy within additive and physical means of patterning and fabrication. In this lecture, the author will explore several exemplary applications taken from this study, and specifically highlight scalable approaches to high-performance integrated systems for low-cost photovoltaic energy conversion.