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Title: Method of forming macro-structured high surface area transparent conductive oxide electrodes

Patent ·
OSTI ID:1234696

A method of forming a high surface area transparent conducting electrode is provided that includes depositing a transparent conducting thin film on a conductive substrate, where the transparent conducting thin film includes transparent conductive particles and a solution-based transparent conducting adhesive layer which serves to coat and bind together the transparent conducting particles, and heat treating the transparent conducting adhesion layer on the conductive substrate, where an increased surface area transparent conducting electrode is formed.

Research Organization:
National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL), Golden, CO (United States)
Sponsoring Organization:
USDOE
DOE Contract Number:
AC36-08GO28308
Assignee:
The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University (Palo Alto, CA)
Patent Number(s):
9,227,224
Application Number:
13/619,053
OSTI ID:
1234696
Resource Relation:
Patent File Date: 2012 Sep 14
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English

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Nanostructured transparent conducting electrode patent September 2009
Solar Cell Element Manufacturing Method and Solar Cell Element patent-application September 2009
Multijunction hybrid solar cell with parallel connection and nanomaterial charge collecting interlayers patent-application September 2013