{"title":"Nanostructured polymer solar cells","authors":"D. Xi, Chenjun Shi, Yan Yao, Yang Yang, Q. Pei","doi":"10.1109/RELPHY.2008.4558881","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"Polymer solar cells generally contain a low bandgap p-type conjugated polymer as photosensitizer and an inorganic or organic n-type semiconductor as electron acceptor. We investigated two nanostructured composites of the complementary semiconductors: nanometer-scale blends and interpenetrating nanorod arrays. In the blend approach, new low bandgap polymers were synthesized to match with electron-acceptors such as C60-PCBM and C70-PCBM for increased absorption efficiency. The nanorod arrays were fabricated by solution-based electrochemical growth. Photovoltaic performance of the composites is also discussed.","PeriodicalId":187696,"journal":{"name":"2008 IEEE International Reliability Physics Symposium","volume":"21 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"2008-07-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"6","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"2008 IEEE International Reliability Physics Symposium","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1109/RELPHY.2008.4558881","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"","JCRName":"","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract
Polymer solar cells generally contain a low bandgap p-type conjugated polymer as photosensitizer and an inorganic or organic n-type semiconductor as electron acceptor. We investigated two nanostructured composites of the complementary semiconductors: nanometer-scale blends and interpenetrating nanorod arrays. In the blend approach, new low bandgap polymers were synthesized to match with electron-acceptors such as C60-PCBM and C70-PCBM for increased absorption efficiency. The nanorod arrays were fabricated by solution-based electrochemical growth. Photovoltaic performance of the composites is also discussed.