19ENG05 NanoWires
"High throughput metrology for nanowire energy harvesting devices"
A Joint Research Project within the European Metrology Research Programme EMPIR
This is the news page of the Empir project 19ENG05 Nanowires.
The official website is hosted by PTB at the following link. This page is periodically updated by the INRiM project members.
Nanowires arrays delivered
The Silicon nanowires arrays produced at INRiM by nanospheres lithography and Metal Assisted Chemical Etching have been delivered to PTB, LNE, VSL, DFM and GUM for dimensional metrology measurements on June 2021. Read more on the fabrication process [...] and on the WP1 and WP4 tasks & deliverables [...]
WP1 and WP4 Nanowires samples from INRiM delivered to VSL, DFM, PTB, LNE and GUM 2021/06/10
Thursday, the 10th of June 2021 Read more
19ENG05 M9 meeting and reporting 2021/05/10-11
Monday, the 10th and Tuesday, the 11th of May 2021 Read more
19ENG05 WP Leaders Web-meeting 2021/04/12
Monday, the 12th of April 2021 Read more
19ENG05 WP1 Web-meeting 2021/04/07
Wednesday, the 7th of April 2021: an update on the Silicon Nanowires fabrication from TU Braunchweig and from INRiM has been reported. Read more
19ENG05 WP4 Web-meeting 2021/03/01
Wednesday, the 1st of March 2021. Read more
Project overview
Energy harvesting from renewable sources (solar, heat and movement) is a prominent solution to create small amounts of electrical energy in areas of difficult access, and energy harvesting devices have much potential to address our world energy problems.
Nanowire (NW) based energy harvesting systems have achieved encouraging progress, but due to nanometre (nm) dimensions of the wires and large size (square meter) of the devices, they also bring challenges for testing and characterisation.
12 European Countries and Universities
17 Nanotechnology Laboratories
Support Europe's Future Demands for Renewable Energy
This project aims to develop reliable and high throughput metrology for the quality control of NW energy harvesting systems. Read more