Hybrid polymer/zinc oxide photovoltaic devices with vertically oriented ZnO nanorods and an amphiphilic molecular interface layer

Journal of Physical Chemistry B

Volumn 110, Issue 15, 2006, Pages 7635-7639

  Ravirajan, Punniamoorthy ^a,c   Peiró, Ana M ^a   Nazeeruddin, Mohammad K ^b   Graetzel, Michael ^b   Bradley, Donal D C ^a   Durrant, James R ^a   Nelson, Jenny ^a  

^a IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b EPFL   (Switzerland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF JAFFNA   (Sri Lanka)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CURRENT DENSITY; NANOSTRUCTURED MATERIALS; POWER CONVERTERS; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; SURFACE CHEMISTRY; ZINC OXIDE;

POLY-3-HEXYLTHIOPHENE (P3HT); POWER CONVERSION EFFICIENCY; ZINC OXIDE PHOTOVOLTAIC DEVICES;

PHOTOVOLTAIC CELLS;

EID: 33646460915     PISSN: 15206106     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/jp0571372     Document Type: Article

References (25)

1. Ma, W.; Yang, C.; Gong, X.; Lee, K.; Heeger, A. J. Adv. Funct. Mater. 2005, 15, 1617.
2. Reyes-Reyes, M.; Kim, K.; Carrol, D. L. Appl. Phys. Lett. 2005, 083506.
3. Kim, Y.; Cook, S.; Tuladhar, S. M.; Choulis, S. A.; Nelson, J.; Durrant, J. R.; Bradley, D. D. C.; Giles, M.; McCulloch, I.; Ha, C. S.; Ree, M. Nat. Mater. 2006. In press.
4. Beek, W. J. E.; Wienk, M. M.; Janssen, R. A. J. Adv. Mater. 2004, 16, 1009.
5. Huynh, W. U.; Dittmer, J. J.; Libby, W. C.; Whiting, G. L.; Alivisatos, A. P. Adv. Funct. Mater. 2003, 13, 73.
6. Ravirajan, P.; Haque, S. A.; Durrant, J. R.; Smit, H. J. P.; Kroon, J. M.; Bradley, D. D. C.; Nelson, J. Appl. Phys. Lett. 2005, 86, 143101.
7. (a) Coakley, K. M.; McGehee, M. D. Appl. Phys. Lett. 2003, 83, 3380.
8. (b) Zukalova, M.; Zukal, A.; Kavan, L.; Nazeeruddin, M. K.; Liska, P.; Gratzel, M. Nano Lett. 2005, 5, 1789.
9. Sun, B.; Snaith, H. J.; Dhoot, A. S.; Westenhoff, S.; Greenham, N. C. J. Appl. Phys. 2005, 97, 014914.
10. Makino, T.; Segawa, Y.; Tsukazaki, A.; Ohtomo, A.; Kawasaki, M. Condensed. Matter 2005, 1-4, 0507009.
11. Yamabi, S.; Imai, H. J. Mater. Chem. 2002, 12, 3773.
12. Law, M.; Greene, L. E.; Johnson, J. C.; Saykally, R.; Yang, P. Nat. Mater. 2005, 4, 455.
13. Lévy-Clément, C.; Tena-Zaera, R.; Ryan, M. A.; Katty, A.; Modes, G. Adv. Mater. 2005, 17, 1512.
14. (a) Westermark, K.; Rensmo, H.; Siegbahn, H.; Keis, K.; Hagfeldt, A.; Ojamae, L.; Persson, P. J. Phys. Chem. B 2002, 106, 10102.
15. (b) Kavan, L.; O'Regan, B.; Gratzel, M. J. J. Electroanal. Chem. 1993, 346, 291.
16. Ravirajan, P.; Haque, S. A.; Durrant, J. R.; Poplavskyy, D.; Bradley, D. D. C.; Nelson, J. J. Appl. Phys. 2004, 95, 1473.
17. Ravirajan, P.; Haque, S. A.; Durrant, J. R.; Bradley, D. D. C.; Nelson, J. Adv. Funct. Mater. 2005, 75, 609.
18. Peiró, A. M.; Ravirajan, P.; Govender, K.; Smyth-Boyle, D.; O'Brien, P.; Bradley, D. D. C.; Nelson, J.; Durrant, J. R. J. Mater. Chem., in press.
19. (a) Chiguvare, Z.; Dyakonov, V. Phys. Rev. B 2004, 70, 235207.
20. (b) Linsebigler, A. L.; Lu, G.; Yates, J. T., Jr. Chem. Rev. 1995, 95, 735.
21. (c) Xu, Y.; Schoonen, M. A. A. Am. Mineral. 2000, 85, 543.
22. Schmidt-Mende, L.; Zakeeruddin, S. M.; Gratzel, M. Appl. Phys. Lett. 2005, 86, 013504.
23. Nelson, J.; Chandler, R. E. Coord. Chem. Rev. 2004, 248, 1181.
24. Nelson, J.; Kirkpatrick, J.; Ravirajan, P. Phys. Rev. B 2004, 69, 035337.
25. Liu, Y.; Coakley, K. M.; McGehee, M. D. Proc. SPIE Int. Soc. Opt. Eng. 2004, 5215, 187.