Patent ID: 8257788
Filing Date: 2012-09-04
Classification: H01L,Y02E,Y10T

Abstract:
1. A method for making a nanostructured layer, comprising: disposing a precursor sol on a substrate, wherein the precursor sol includes one or more covalent metal complexes with a central element, one or more surfactants, and a solvent; evaporating the solvent from the precursor sol to form a surfactant-templated film; controlling the size of one or more pores formed in the surfactant-templated film such that the pores have diameters between about 10 nm and about 50 nm with adjacent pores spaced between 10 nm and about 50 nm; covalently crosslinking the surfactant-templated film to form a nanostructured porous layer based on a compound of the central element, the nanostructured porous layer having pores with diameters between about 10 nm and about 50 nm with adjacent pores spaced between 10 nm and about 50 nm filling the pores in the nanostructured porous layer with a semiconducting or conducting pore filling material, wherein the central element of the nanostructured porous layer is Ti.