Organic photovoltaic devices with colloidal TiO2 nanorods as key functional components

Surface Plasmon Enhancement of Organic Photovoltaic Devices

Solution-Processed Hybrid Light-Emitting Devices Comprising TiO2 Nanorods and WO3 Layers as Carrier-Transporting Layers

The goal of this research is to prepare inverted light-emitting devices with improved performance by combining titanium dioxide (TiO2) nanorods and tungsten trioxide (WO3) layer. TiO2 nanorods with different lengths were established directly on the fluorine-doped tin oxide (FTO) substrates by the hydrothermal method. The prepared TiO2 nanorods with lengths shorter than 200 nm possess transmitta...

Light Trapping and Alternative Electrodes for Organic Photovoltaic Devices

Organic materials, such as conjugated polymers, have emerged as a promising alternative for the production of inexpensive and flexible photovoltaic cells. As conjugated polymers are soluble, liquid based printing techniques enable production on large scale to a price much lower than that for inorganic based solar cells. Present day state of the art conjugated polymer photovoltaic cells are comp...

Organic Thin Film Photovoltaic Devices from Discotic Materials

Since the {irst demonstration of organic photo voltaic devices much progress has been made. Organic solar cells reach now power conversion efficiencies of up to 3% over the solar spectrum. The morphology of the active film is very important for efficient devices. Films spin-coated from blend solutions phase separate. The scale of the phase separation depends on the solvent, solubility of the ma...

Tailoring organic heterojunction interfaces in bilayer polymer photovoltaic devices.

In an ideal model, a p-n junction is formed by two stacked slabs of semiconductors. Although the construction of actual devices is generally more complex, we show that such a simple method can in fact be applied to the formation of organic heterojunctions. Two films of the organic semiconductors poly(3-hexylthiophene) (P3HT) and [6,6]-phenyl-C(61)-butyric acid methyl ester (PCBM) can be connect...