Golisano Institute for Sustainability
The NanoPower Research Labs
Enhancing the performance of energy conversion and storage devices through the development of nanomaterials.
The NanoPower Research Labs (NPRL) at RIT are dedicated to the development of new materials and devices for power generation and storage for microelectronic components and micro-electromechanical systems (MEMS). The NPRL’s focus is to develop the materials and devices that are compatible with the current needs of a wide variety of microsystem technologies by exploiting the potential opportunities afforded through nanostructured materials and nanotechnology. Examples of targeted technologies include: carbon nanotubes for high-density storage in lithium ion batteries; semiconductor quantum dots for high-efficiency thin film solar cells and nanotube doped polymeric films for microelectronic PEM fuel cells.
The work of the NPRL is supported by a 6000 sq. ft. laboratory facility, a 15,000 sq. ft. clean room, RIT’s new $14 million NYSTAR center in microsystems and Ph.D. programs in imaging science and microsystems.
A sample of national and international publications and presentations by NPRL researchers follows:
- C. Cress, S.M. Hubbard, B. Landi, D. Wilt, R. Raffaelle, “Quantum dot solar cell tolerance to alpha-particle irradiation,” Appl. Phys. Lett. 91, page pending, 2007.
- DiLeo, R. A., Landi, B. J., Raffaelle, R. P. “Purity Assessment of Multiwalled Carbon Nanotubes by Raman Spectroscopy,” Journal of Applied Physics, 101, 6, pp. 064307/1-064307/5, 2007.
- Landi, B. J., Raffaelle, R. P. “Effects of Carrier Gas Dynamics on Single Wall Carbon Nanotube Chiral Distributions During Laser Vaporization Synthesis,” Journal of Nanoscience and Nanotechnology, 7, 3, pp. 883-890, 2007.
- S.M. Hubbard, R. Raffaelle, R. Robinson, C. Bailey, D. Wilt, D. Wolford, W. Maurer, S. Bailey, “Growth and Characterization of InAs Quantum Dot Enhanced Photovoltaic Devices,” Mater. Res. Soc. Symp. Proc. 1017E, DD13-11, 2007.
- Fagan, J. A., Simpson, J. R.., Landi, B. J., Richter, L. J., Mandelbaum, I., Bajpai, V., Ho, D. L., Raffaelle, R., Walker, A. R. Hight, Bauer, B. J., Hobbie, E. K. “Dielectric Response of Aligned Semiconducting Single-Wall Nanotubes,” Physical Review Letters, 98, 14, pp. 147402/1-147402/4, 2007.
- S.M. Hubbard, D. Wilt, S. Bailey, D. Byrnes, R. Raffaelle, “OMVPE Grown InAs Quantum Dots for Application in Nanostructured Photovoltaics,” Proc. of the IEEE World Conference on Photovoltaic Energy Conversion 1, 118-121, 2006.
- E. Cho, D. Pavlidis, G. Zhao, S.M. Hubbard, J. Schwank, “Improvement of CO sensitivity in GaN-based gas sensors,” IEICE Transactions on Electronics E89-C, 1047, 2006.
- Fagan J. A., Landi B. J., Mandelbaum I., Simpson J. R., Bajpai V., Bauer B. J., Migler K., Walker A. R. Hight, Raffaelle R., Hobbie E. K. “Comparative Measures of Single-Wall Carbon Nanotube Dispersion,” The Journal of Physical Chemistry B, 110, 47, pp. 23801-23805, 2006.
- Cress, C. D., Landi, B. J., Raffaelle, R. P., Wilt, D. M. “InGaP Alpha Voltaic Batteries: Synthesis, Modeling, and Radiation Tolerance,” Journal of Applied Physics, 100, 11, pp. 114519/1-114519/5, 2006.