Processing of Thin Film Photovoltaics from Chalcogenide Nanoparticles

• Main Author: Brew, Kevin Wayne
• Format: Text
• Language: unknown
• Published: Purdue University 2015
• Subjects: Chalcogenide; Flexible substrates; Ligand exchange; Nanoparticles; Photovoltaics; Solution processing; Ocean acidification
• Online Access: https://docs.lib.purdue.edu/open_access_dissertations/1095; https://docs.lib.purdue.edu/context/open_access_dissertations/article/2311/viewcontent/Brew_purdue_0183D_19300.pdf

Over the last few decades, it has become evident that current energy production for humanity since the industrial revolution has incurred the emission of greenhouse gases (GHGs) into the Earth’s atmosphere, resulting in rampant pollution, global warming, ocean acidification and other disastrous environmental effects. The continued emission GHGs is a direct result of the predominant use of fossil fuels to meet an exponentially increasing global energy demand. Development of sustainable energy technologies is a global imperative to avoid future catastrophe. Photovoltaics (PV) are an ideal resource that allows us to convert our greatest supply of energy, sunlight, directly into our greatest source of energy consumption, electricity.