My research activities are focused on the fabrication and electrical characterization of nanostructured devices. Currently, I am fabricating metal hole arrays (MHAs) with sub-wavelength hole sizes that show the enhanced optical transmission effect, and I am incorporating them as semi-transparent electrodes in organic solar cells based on a P3HT-PCBM blend. When the enhanced transmission peaks of the MHA are matched to the blend absorption range, we observe an increased light absorption in this region. Preliminary measurements show a significant increase in the short circuit current under illumination for the MHA-based solar cell with respect to a similar control device, which has the MHA-electrode replaced by a conventional indium-tin oxide contact.
A. Santulli, M. Feygenson, F. E. Camino, M. Aronson, and S. Wong, Synthesis and Characterization of One-dimensional Cr2O3 Nanostructures, Chem. Mater. 23, 1000, 2011.
E. Sutter, P. Albrecht, F. E. Camino, and P. Sutter, Monolayer graphene as ultimate chemical passivation layer for arbitrary shaped metal surfaces, Carbon 48, 4414, 2010.
Eli Sutter, Fernando Camino, and Peter Sutter, One-step synthesis of Ge–SiO2 core-shell nanowires, Appl. Phys. Lett. 94, 083109, 2009.
F. E. Camino, Wei Zhou, and V. J. Goldman, e/3 Laughlin Quasiparticle Primary-Filling n =1/3 Interferometer, Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 076805, 2007.
F. E. Camino, Wei Zhou, and V. J. Goldman, Aharonov-Bohm Superperiod in a Laughlin Quasiparticle Interferometer, Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 246802, 2005.