Stanford researchers have developed flat, ultrathin (sub 100nm) optical elements based on high index nanostructures which can be alternatives to refractive optical elements such as gratings, lenses, and axicons.
Researchers at Stanford have developed a next-generation technique of fabricating metal oxide thin films using open-air ultrasonic spray combustion and plasma curing.
Stanford inventors have developed a method for manufacturing perovskite solar modules at lower cost and greater device stability by utilizing a novel transparent conducting oxide (TCO) lift-off scribing method.
Researchers in Prof. Yi Cui's laboratory have used a novel electrospinning process to fabricate a unique, transparent, highly conductive metal nanofiber material that could be used to replace indium tin oxide (ITO) in transparent electrodes.
Stanford researchers have developed a method to fabricate highly efficient Si/TMDs tandem solar cells which aims to break the 30% efficiency barrier with low cost and increased reliability.
Stanford researchers successfully manufactured high quality optical components using commercially available 3D printing. The 3D printed optics were easy to fabricate and inexpensive.
Engineers in Prof. Fritz Prinz's laboratory have developed a low cost, scalable method to fabricate anti-reflective, highly conductive metal silicide nanowires electrodes for photovoltaic cells.
These light trapping solar cell structures increase optical absorption and carrier collection, improving efficiency by 24%, while significantly reducing the solar cell active layer thickness and thus lowering cost.
Stanford researchers at the Cui Lab have designed a self-aligned hybrid metal-dielectric surface that offers unparalleled performance in applications where both a transparent contact and a photon management texture are needed.
Stanford engineers have developed and tested a nanostructured thin film material that upconverts infrared to visible light and combines electrical and non-linear optical properties in the same layer.
Stanford researchers have patented a family of white light emitting perovskites with initial photoluminescence quantum efficiencies (PLQEs) of 9% and stable emission over at least three months of continuous irradiation, with third party validation studies achieving 32% PLQE.
Researchers in Prof. Mark Brongersma's laboratory have engineered a novel patterning scheme for semiconductor nanowires to increase their photon absorption in thin films for solar cells and photo-detectors.
Solar cells containing halide perovskite absorbers have shown large improvements in power conversion efficiency over the last eight years and now exceed 20%. This makes them competitive with many commercial technologies like polycrystalline silicon and CdTe.
Stanford researchers have developed a new way to deposit robust and efficient photoactive perovskite materials in open-air and at rapid linear processing rates in excess of 1 cm/s.