Development of Environmentally Controlled Desktop Spray Coater and Optimization of Deposition Conditions for Organic Thin-film Photovoltaic Cells

Process Optimization of Deposition Conditions for Low Temperature Thin Film Insulators used in Thin Film Transistors Displays

Deposition process for thin insulator used in polysilicon gate dielectric of thin film transistors are optimized. Silane and N2O plasma are used to form SiO2 layers at temperatures below 150 ºC. The deposition conditions as well as system operating parameters such as pressure, temperature, gas flow ratios, total flow rate and plasma power are also studied and their effects are discussed.  The p...

Optimization of the Automated Spray Layer-by-Layer Technique for THin Film Deposition

The operational parameters of the automated Spray-LbL technique for thin film deposition have been investigated in order to-identify their effects on film thickness and roughness. We use the automated Spray-LbL system developed at MIT by the Hammond lab to build 25 bilayer films of poly (ally amine hydrochloride) (PAH) and poly (acrylic acid) (PAA). Each of the 10 operational parameters of this...

Methods of simulating thin film deposition using spray pyrolysis techniques

Integration of thin tin oxide film formation into CMOS technology is a fundamental step to realize sensitive smart gas sensor devices. Spray pyrolysis is a deposition technique which has the potential to fulfil this requirement. A model for spray pyrolysis deposition is developed and implemented within a Level Set framework. Two models for the topography modification due to spray pyrolysis depo...

Low-Voltage Polymer/Small-Molecule Blend Organic Thin-Film Transistors and Circuits Fabricated via Spray Deposition

Fabrication of ordered bulk heterojunction organic photovoltaic cells using nanopatterning and electrohydrodynamic spray deposition methods.

Organic photovoltaic cells with an ordered heterojunction (OHJ) active layer are expected to show increased performance. In the study described here, OHJ cells were fabricated using a combination of nanoimprinting and electrohydrodynamic (EHD) spray deposition methods. After an electron donor material was nanoimprinted with a PDMS stamp (valley width: 230 nm, period: 590 nm) duplicated from a S...