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Volume 6
Research & Reviews: Journal of Material Sciences
ISSN: 2321-6212
Advanced Materials 2018
September 04-06, 2018
September 04-06, 2018 | Zürich, Switzerland
21
st
International Conference on
Advanced Materials & Nanotechnology
Low-cost printable hybrid hetero structures for energy harvesting and lighting
Sylvain G Cloutier
Ecole de Technologie Superieure, Canada
T
he urgent demand for better and cheaper optoelectronic device architectures is a crucial road block towards a better use of
our energy resources. As such, we explore newadditivemanufacturing paradigms inprintable electronics to realize ultralow-
cost, light weight and fully-integrated light-harvesting and energy-efficient optoelectronic devices using commercial-grade
printing capabilities. While solution-processing techniques have yielded a wide range of new hybrid nano-engineered materials
for optoelectronic applications, many key parameters including compatibility, interface engineering, surface treatment and
processability are essential to achieve the best device performances. More recently, new solution processed materials including
organometallics, new high-mobility conductive polymers and nanoparticle inks have shown tremendous potential for low-cost
optoelectronic device integration. For example, power conversion efficiencies from printable organometallic solar cells have
now surpassed 20%. These advances have also transposed into new photo detector devices with high responsivities. Just in the
last year, our teammade tremendous ground breaking progress towards viable devices by dramatically enhancing structure and
material properties, enhancing conductivities by several orders of magnitude using hybrids, significantly improving stability and
lifetime and dramatically improving the performances through advanced processing. In this presentation, we will summarize
our work from the last five years exploring new hybrid heterostructures for low-cost opto electronic applications, including
mainly light harvesting and lighting. We will present new printable sol gel based TiO
2
collector architectures, which then led
to promising low-cost solar cell architectures for production using commercial grade inkjet or aerosol printing capability. We
will also describe in details how methyl ammonium lead-halide perovskite deposition and chemistry was adapted to produce
low-cost photodetectors and LEDs using commercial-grade inkjet printing capability.
Recent Publications:
1. C Trudeau, et al. (2018) MRS Advances, 1-6. doi:10.1557/adv.2018.172
2. M Bolduc, et al. (2018) Scientific Reports 8, 1418-1426
3. I Ka, et al. (2017) Scientific Reports 7, 45543-8
4. S Sepulveda, et al. (2012) Journal of Nanomaterials 286104-7.
Biography
Sylvain G Cloutier has completed his PhD at Brown University in 2006. He then received the DARPA Young Faculty Award for his work on the use of nano-
engineered materials for lasers at the University of Delaware. In 2011, he joined Ecole de Technologie Superieure, Canada (ÉTS), where he leads both the Canada
Research Chair on printable hybrid optoelectronic materials & devices and the Ariane Group Industrial Research Chair on Emerging Materials for Aerospace and
Space. He was Lead Investigator on several large-scale research projects in the USA and Canada. He contributed over 80 publications and was elected at the
College of the Royal Society of Canada in 2014.
sylvaing.cloutier@etsmtl.caSylvain G Cloutier, Res. Rev. J Mat. Sci. 2018, Volume 6
DOI: 10.4172/2321-6212-C3-020