Large area power applications

R. Kern, N. van der Burg, G. Chmiel, et al., Long term stability of dye-sensitised solar cells for large area power applications, Opto-Electronics Review, vol. 8, no. 4, 284 pages, 2000. 

Excimer and nitrogen lasers are sources of pulsed monochromatic UV radiation with a variety of interesting wavelengths and high output peak powers. However, they cannot compete with mercury arc lamps in large areas or fast-cure applications because of their low pulse repetition rates.9... 

Recently, RBS has been used to study the metal-silicon reactions induced by both a CW laser and an electron beam (53). Uniform, large area, single phase silicides were formed by adjusting the beam power level to induce a solid state reaction. Under certain conditions metastable mixed-phase systems were also obtained. RBS could non-destructively determine the stoichiometry of the phases formed without additional standards. AES and SIMS have also been used in the study of metal silicides. These applications and other points of interest in the fabrication, characterization and application of metal-semiconductor Schottky barrier junctions have been reviewed recently by Sharma and Gupta (54). 

For example, active-matrix backplanes for reflective displays using electrophoretic media is a potential application for large-area electronics. Electrophoretic media are usually charged colored particles suspended in an insulating fluid [35-37]. When the fluid is held in an electric field between two conductive plates, the particles will move between the plates creating a dark or a reflective state. Because the contrast in an electrophoretic display is because of reflection, no backlight is required and the display has relatively low-power consumption compared with a transmissive liquid-crystal display. 

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