• Directions

Mariotti Research Group

Plasma Science & Nanoscale Engineering

  • Home
  • People
    • Current Group Members
    • Past Group Members
    • Prizes & Awards
  • Research
    • Current Funded Research Projects
    • Past projects
    • Past & Present Sponsors
  • Research Output
    • Journal Papers
    • We will be at … (future conferences)
    • We were at … (past conferences)
  • Facilities
    • Shared Materials Characterization Facilities
    • UU Photoelectron Spectroscopy Facility – UUPS
    • ELM Facility Cluster
    • OVO nanoFactory
    • Photovoltaic & Application Device Characterization
  • Image Galleries
    • Collection 2023
    • Collection 2022
    • Collection 2021
    • Collection 2020
    • Collection 2019
    • Collection 2018
    • Collection 2017
    • Collection 2016
    • Collection 2015
    • Collection 2014
    • Imagine RIT
  • Jobs & PhDs
    • Postdoc in Plasma Processes for Nanomaterials (deadline 28th January 2022)
    • PhD in Nanomaterials for Environmental Applications (competition closed)
    • PhD in Metal quantum dots and clusters for energy applications (competition closed)
  • News

Environmentally friendly quantum dots for next generation solar cells (Sust. Energy Fuels 1, 2017, 1611)

24th August 2017 by Davide Mariotti

Shine on you crazy carbon! Nitrogen-doped carbon quantum dots (N-CQDs) are synthesized using a simple custom atmospheric pressure microplasma. The N-CQDs show interesting quantum confined optical properties that depend on the amount of nitrogen incorporation. The N-CQDs are incorporated into a photovoltaic device as the photoactive layer achieving an extraordinary open-circuit voltage of 1.8 V and a power conversion efficiency of 0.8% (champion device), amongst the highest reported to date for group IV and carbon based quantum dots (Sustainable Energy Fuels 1, 2017, 1611).

Filed Under: News

Plasma Science and Technology > Materials Processing and Nanotechnology > Energy and Environment

News and Events

  • Solar-thermal conversion with nano-Oxides (Nano Energy 108 2023 108112)
  • CNT for solar-thermal energy (Nanomaterials 12, 2022, 2705)
  • Plasma direct exsolution (Adv Energy Mater 12, 2022, 2201131)
  • D01 – Plasma Electrochemistry and Catalysis 2
  • Doping … more and better (J Mater Sci 57, 2022, 13314)

Copyright © 2014. All Rights Reserved.
Web design by Llama Digital.

Copyright © 2023 · News Pro Theme on Genesis Framework · WordPress · Log in