Integrated extended planar plasma system for high-throughput manufacturing of sustainable transparent conducting oxides

用于高通量制造可持续透明导电氧化物的集成扩展平面等离子体系统

• 批准号: 101693
• 金额: $ 54.79万
• 依托单位: PLASMA QUEST LIMITED
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Collaborative R&D
• 财政年份: 2014
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2014 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=101693
• 关键词: Integrated; extended; planar; plasma; system

Transparent conducting oxides (TCO) are fundamental to various large area devices essential to the modern society (e.g. thin film solar cells, touch screens and flat-panel displays). This project aims at delivering an innovative pilot coating system by scaling up the unique high-target-utilisation-sputtering (HiTUS) coating process invented in the UK to roll-to-roll capacity. This will demonstrate its high-throughput coating potential for TCO production at radically lower consumption of energy and materials. Novel conducting oxides without using depleting indium metal will be formulated using an advanced "designer" approach, and specifically formulated coatings with remarkable TCO properties will be delivered through process optimisation, thus demonstrating the HiTUS technology's technical readiness for commercialisation and providing a solid foundation for entry to a growing $8bn market resulting from the ever increasing demand for TCO products based particularly on sustainable and environmentally friendly material resources. The coating system from this work can also be used in the fabrication of functional thin films for other advanced application devices.

透明导电氧化物（TCO）是现代社会必不可少的各种大面积设备的基础（例如，薄膜太阳能电池，触摸屏和平板显示器）。该项目旨在通过扩大英国发明的独特的高目标 - 利用涂层（Hitus）涂料流程来实现创新的飞行员涂料系统，以滚动到滚动。这将证明其在能源和材料的消耗量从根本上降低的情况下生产TCO的高通量涂料潜力。新的无需耗尽inistium金属的新型传导氧化物将使用先进的“设计师”方法制定，并且将通过流程优化进行特殊配制的具有出色的TCO特性的涂料，从而证明了基于越来越多的基于TCO产品的越来越多的基础上，基于越来越多的基于TCO产品的产品，就可以证明其用于商业化的技术准备，并为不断增长的8亿美元市场提供了稳固的基础。这项工作的涂料系统也可以用于制造其他高级应用设备的功能性薄膜。