Coatings to Improve Optoelectronic Devices / / MDPI.

• VerfasserIn: Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute,
• Place / Publishing House: [Place of publication not identified] : : MDPI - Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute,, 2020.
• Year of Publication: 2020
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 electronic resource (172 p.)

This selection is focused on coatings and films with applications in optoelectronics, such as photovoltaics, photocatalysis, and light-based sensors and phenomena. The studies investigate the optimal composition, crystalline structure, and morphology to deliver the different functionalities sought. Obtaining transparent p-type electrodes is challenging but extremely relevant in optoelectronics. Electric conduction mechanisms and the correlations with structure and doping are discussed. The important issue of the degradation pathways in perovskite-based solar cells and the possibilities offered by different types of coatings to encapsulate the devices as well as the beneficial effect of silica coating as an antireflection and antisoiling layer on well-established solar cells are discussed. New designs of nanoplasmonic films for chemical and biological molecule sensing are reviewed, such as the combination of metallic nanoparticles and nanostructured semiconductors and dispersing metallic or bi-metallic nanoparticles in CuO films. The impacts of structure, defects, and morphology on the photoactivated properties of WO3 films and on the shape memory behavior in Cu–Al–Ni thin films are discussed. Aggregated TiO2 nanoparticles on TiO2 layers are shown to enhance optical transmittance and confer a superhydrophilic characteristic. Finally, aspects of the fundamental characterization of thin films, Drude damping in thin films, and laser-induced deflection technique are discussed.

Table of Contents

Preface to "Coatings to Improve Optoelectronic Devices". vii -- Nengduo Zhang, Jian Sun and Hao Gong Transparent p-Type Semiconductors: Copper-Based Oxides and Oxychalcogenides Reprinted from: Coatings 2019, 9, 137, doi:10.3390/coatings9020137 1 -- Nuria Novas, Alfredo Alcayde, Dalia El Khaled and Francisco Manzano-Agugliaro Coatings in Photovoltaic Solar Energy Worldwide Research Reprinted from: Coatings 2019, 9, 797, doi:10.3390/coatings9120797 29 -- Ashraf Uddin, Mushfika Baishakhi Upama, Haimang Yi and Leiping Duan Encapsulation of Organic and Perovskite Solar Cells: A Review Reprinted from: Coatings 2019, 9, 65, doi:10.3390/coatings9020065. 51 -- Kensuke Nishioka, So Pyay Moe and Yasuyuki Ota Long-Term Reliability Evaluation of Silica-Based Coating with Antireflection Effect for Photovoltaic Modules Reprinted from: Coatings 2019, 9, 49, doi:10.3390/coatings9010049. 69 -- Gr ´egory Barbillon Fabrication and SERS Performances of Metal/Si and Metal/ZnO Nanosensors: A Review Reprinted from: Coatings 2019, 9, 86, doi:10.3390/coatings9020086. 77 -- Manuela Proen¸ca, Marco S. Rodrigues, Joel Borges and Filipe Vaz Gas Sensing with Nanoplasmonic Thin Films Composed of Nanoparticles (Au, Ag) Dispersed in a CuO Matrix Reprinted from: Coatings 2019, 9, 337, doi:10.3390/coatings9050337 91 -- Yuan-Chang Liang and Che-Wei Chang Preparation of Orthorhombic WO3 Thin Films and Their Crystal Quality-Dependent Dye Photodegradation Ability Reprinted from: Coatings 2019, 9, 90, doi:10.3390/coatings9020090. 103 -- Doga Bilican, Samer Kurdi, Yi Zhu, Pau Solsona, Eva Pellicer, Zoe H. Barber, Alan Lindsay Greer, Jordi Sort and Jordina Fornell Epitaxial Versus Polycrystalline Shape Memory Cu-Al-Ni Thin Films Reprinted from: Coatings 2019, 9, 308, doi:10.3390/coatings9050308 115 -- Yuki Kameya and Hiroki Yabe Optical and Superhydrophilic Characteristics of TiO2 Coating with Subwavelength Surface Structure Consisting of Spherical Nanoparticle Aggregates Reprinted from: Coatings 2019, 9, 547, doi:10.3390/coatings9090547 125 -- Olaf Stenzel, Steffen Wilbrandt, Sven Stempfhuber, Dieter G¨abler and Sabrina-Jasmin Wolleb Spectrophotometric Characterization of Thin Copper and Gold Films Prepared by Electron Beam Evaporation: Thickness Dependence of the Drude Damping Parameter Reprinted from: Coatings 2019, 9, 181, doi:10.3390/coatings9030181 135 -- Simon Bublitz and Christian M ¨uhlig Absolute Absorption Measurements in Optical Coatings by Laser Induced Deflection Reprinted from: Coatings 2019, 9, 473, doi:10.3390/coatings9080473 149.