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Meeting ID: 962 3557 9087
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Emerging energy and electronics technologies such as lightweight solar cells, low power computing devices, and earth-abundant water splitting could help power the renewable energy transition, but their impact is limited by their performance and manufacturability. Here we pose that scalable nanomanufacturing via printing could address these needs by allowing low-cost integration of high-performance materials over large areas and in new 3D geometries.

We apply printing to three challenges in scalable fabrication: 1) How to print high performance ultrathin semiconductors for wearable electronics, 2) how to design inks for printing large area solar cells, and 3) how to print 3D electrodes for energy devices. Our goal is to push the limits of 2D and 3D electronics—engineering the electrostatics of semiconductors at the nanoscale and exploiting the physics of 3D electrodes at the microscale. We show how advanced fabrication capabilities can yield device physics insights regarding quantum confinement and heterostructures of oxide semiconductors, high-frequency skin effects in stretchable conductors, and fluid instabilities in metal halide perovskites. By understanding the underlying physics, we aim to enable devices for driving disruptive computing, sensing, and energy technologies