Tailoring thin films for catalysis: Thin film growth methods and properties
CatLab Lectures 2023/2024
- Date: Oct 20, 2023
- Time: 10:30 AM - 12:00 PM (Local Time Germany)
- Speaker: Prof. Dr. Rutger Schlatmann
- Helmholtz Zentrum Berlin
- Location: HZB Adlershof BESSY II, Großer Hörsaal, Albert-Einstein-Straße 15, 12489 Adlershof
- Room: Großer Hörsaal am Eingang
- Host: HZB and FHI
- Contact: trunschk@fhi-berlin.mpg.de
Thin film technology is a key technology in many high tech sectors today and plays a crucial role in the development of photovoltaics. It allows to control of a very broad set of material (e.g.electronic or optical) properties down to the atomic level, yet can be compatible with high-volume low-cost manufacturing. The Catlab project aims to exploit exactly these characteristics of thin film technology for use in catalytic reactions, especially for chemical energy carriers, such as (green) hydrogen and carbon- or nitrogen-based chemicals derived from it.
In this introductory lecture, the fundamentals of thin film techonology are presented, with a particular focus on vacuum-based deposition methods and how the versatile use of these methods can influence the resulting material properties, drawing on examples from related applications and from the first period of Catlab experiments.