Flexible and Transparent Solar Cells Using Si Nanomembranes

Yoon, Jongseung

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“…A silicon membrane 300 nm thick has a critical bending radius of over 5 μm. At the same time, a silicon nanomembrane 10 nm thick has a bending radius of 500 nm [57]. Thus, biomimetic nanomembranes are highly stretchable and easily assume the shape of the surface to which they are transferred (mechanical conformability).…”

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“…Biomimetic nanomembranes have been used in stretchable and curved electronics. Silicon single-crystalline nanomembranes have been proposed for the use in solar cells [57], due to the excellent performance of silicon single crystal compared to amorphous silicon or polysilicon. Single crystals are very expensive in comparison, but this sole advantage of the other types of silicon solar cells becomes unimportant when minute amounts of material are used, as is the case with nanomembranes.…”

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Biomimetic Nanomembranes: An Overview

Jakšić

2020

Biomimetics

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Nanomembranes are the principal building block of basically all living organisms, and without them life as we know it would not be possible. Yet in spite of their ubiquity, for a long time their artificial counterparts have mostly been overlooked in mainstream microsystem and nanosystem technologies, being a niche topic at best, instead of holding their rightful position as one of the basic structures in such systems. Synthetic biomimetic nanomembranes are essential in a vast number of seemingly disparate fields, including separation science and technology, sensing technology, environmental protection, renewable energy, process industry, life sciences and biomedicine. In this study, we review the possibilities for the synthesis of inorganic, organic and hybrid nanomembranes mimicking and in some way surpassing living structures, consider their main properties of interest, give a short overview of possible pathways for their enhancement through multifunctionalization, and summarize some of their numerous applications reported to date, with a focus on recent findings. It is our aim to stress the role of functionalized synthetic biomimetic nanomembranes within the context of modern nanoscience and nanotechnologies. We hope to highlight the importance of the topic, as well as to stress its great applicability potentials in many facets of human life.

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