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Investigating New Methods To Develop Perovskite Solar Cells, Amani Hussain Alfaifi
Investigating New Methods To Develop Perovskite Solar Cells, Amani Hussain Alfaifi
Electronic Theses and Dissertations
Discovering the potential of organic-inorganic metal halide perovskites (MHP) as a harvesting material in solar cells has strongly affected the research direction in solar energy. The fascinating optical and electronic properties offered by MHP combined with tremendous effort from scientists around the world have improved the efficiency to about 25% in a decade.
In the first part of the dissertation, we studied the lamination process as a new fabrication method for producing self-encapsulated perovskite solar cells based on laminating half stacks,as opposed to the conventional layer-by-layer method. Our work focused on optimizing the lamination process of complex triple cations perovskite …
2d Confinement Of Thermal Gradients In Metallic Non-Local Spin Valves, Rachel K. Bennet
2d Confinement Of Thermal Gradients In Metallic Non-Local Spin Valves, Rachel K. Bennet
Electronic Theses and Dissertations
Non-local spin valves (NLSVs) are a valuable tool in the growing field of spintronics due to their unique ability to separate charge current from pure spin current. Their potential applications as read heads for hard-disk drives, as well as use as logic gates and other spin sensors, makes detailed understanding of their behavior under a wide range of operating conditions very important.
In this dissertation, I present results of extreme thermal engineering of the supporting substrate of NLSVs, which has a dramatic impact on the background signal of the device as well as contributions from thermal spin effects such as …