Nano-Engineering of Hybrid Organic Heterojunctions with Carbon Nanotubes to Improve Photovoltaic Performance
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Organic-inorganic hybrid photovoltaics are beginning to show significant promise as a low cost highly efficient route towards renewable energy generation. Of the hybrid architectures available, carbon nanotube incorporated organic photovoltaics is considered to be among the most promising. Herein, the optical and electronic effects of localizing multiwalled carbon nanotubes in the donor polymer compared to incorporation in the bulk heterojunction architecture (triple heterojunction scheme) is compared through photoluminescence quenching and dark diode characteristics analysis. A significant improvement in photoluminescence quenching is observed when the nanotubes are localized in the donor polymer where the active
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