nanopattern – TechConnect Briefs

Nanopatterned coatings for advanced glass products

Aryal, M., Geddes, J., Kobrin, B., McMackin, I., Seitz, O., Rolith, Inc., US

A wide variety of glass products would greatly benefit from coatings that offer anti-reflective, anti-glare, anti-fog, anti-ice, self-cleaning, and other advanced functions. State-of-the-art coatings do not meet desired performance characteristics or cannot be applied over [...]

Nanopatterned Organic Materials for Photovoltaic Devices

DeSimone, J.M., Hampton, M.J., Retterer, S.T., Samulski, E.T., Templeton, J.L., Williams, S.S., University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, US

In order to further increase the efficiency of current state-of-the-art photovoltaic devices, the interfacial architecture must be controlled at the nanoscale such that the D/A blend results in an ideal morphology for maximizing charge collection [...]

Nanopatterning of Periodically Strained Surfaces – A Kinetic Monte Carlo Simulation Study

Cho, K., Clemens, B.M., Larsson, M.I., Sabiryanov, R.F., Stanford University, US

We present kinetic Monte Carlo simulations of nanopatterning by using strain-assisted nucleation of adatom islands on periodically strained fcc(111) surfaces. The goal of our work is to predict conditions and limitations for producing nanopatterns. It [...]