Nanoparticles for photovoltaic and LED devices and methods of making the same

US10273403B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignees

• Alliance for Sustainable Energy, LLC · US
• University of Washington · US
• The Regents of the University of Colorado, a Body Corporate · US

Inventors

• Joseph Matthew Luther · Boulder, US
• Abhishek Swarnkar · Bachra, IN
• Ashley Rae Marshall · Golden, US
• Erin Sanehira · Dallas, US

Key dates

• Filing date: May 31, 2017
• Grant date: Apr 30, 2019
• Expiry date: May 31, 2037

Classification

• Technology area (CPC Y): Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies
• CPC primary: Y10S977/95
• WIPO field: Basic materials chemistry
• WIPO sector: Chemistry

Abstract

The present disclosure relates to a composition that includes a particle and a surface species, where the particle has a characteristic length between greater than zero nm and 100 nm inclusively, and the surface species is associated with a surface of the particle such that the particle maintains a crystalline form when the composition is at a temperature between −180° C. and 150° C.