Charge injection rates in hybrid nanosilicon-polythiophene bulk heterojunction solar cells

Journal of Physical Chemistry C

Volumn 117, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 110-115

  Carvalho, Alexandra ^a   Martsinovich, Natalia ^b   Vieira, Ricardo ^a   Troisi, Alessandro ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AVEIRO   (Portugal)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WARWICK   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BULK HETEROJUNCTION SOLAR CELLS; INJECTION TIME; OLIGOTHIOPHENES; ORDERS OF MAGNITUDE; PARALLEL ARRANGEMENT; POLY-THIOPHENE; SILICON NANOCRYSTALS; SILICON SURFACES;

CHEMISORPTION; DENSITY FUNCTIONAL THEORY; HETEROJUNCTIONS; NANOCRYSTALS; SILICON; THIOPHENE;

HAMILTONIANS;

EID: 84872368973     PISSN: 19327447     EISSN: 19327455     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/jp3095825     Document Type: Article

References (25)

1. Saunders, B. R.; Turner, M. L. Adv. Colloid Interface Sci. 2008, 138, 1-23
2. Song, T.; Lee, S. T.; Sun, B. J. Mater. Chem. 2012, 22, 4216-4232
3. Scharber, M. C.; Muhlbacher, D.; Koppe, M.; Denk, P.; Waldauf, C.; Heeger, A. J.; Brabec, C. J. Adv. Mater. 2006, 18, 789-794
4. Liu, C.-Y.; Holman, Z. C.; Kortshagen, U. R. Adv. Funct. Mater. 2010, 20, 2157-2164
5. Dietmueller, R.; Stegner, A. R.; Lechner, R.; Niesar, S.; Pereira, R. N.; Brandt, M. S.; Ebbers, A. Appl. Phys. Lett. 2009, 94, 113301
6. Dietmueller, R.; Nesswetter, H.; Wiggers, H.; Stutzmann, M. Phys. Status Solidi A 2009, 206, 2775
7. Brédas, J.-L.; Norton, J. E.; Cornil, J.; Coropceanu, V. Acc. Chem. Res. 2009, 42, 1691
8. Nicholson, P. G.; Castro, F. A. Nanotechnology 2010, 21, 492001
9. Mukamel, S. Principles of Nonlinear Optical Spectroscopy; Oxford University Press: New York, 1995.
10. Jones, D. R.; Troisi, A. Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys. 2010, 12, 4625
11. Martsinovich, N.; Troisi, A. J. Phys. Chem. C 2011, 115, 11781-11792
12. Hohenberg, P.; Kohn, W. Phys. Rev. 1964, 136, B864
13. Kohn, W.; Sham, L. J. Phys. Rev. 1965, 140, A1133
14. Sánchez-Portal, D.; Ordejón, P.; Artacho, E.; Soler, J. M. Int. J. Quantum Chem. 1997, 65, 453
15. Soler, J. M.; Artacho, E.; Gale, J. D.; García, A.; Junquera, J.; Ordejón, P.; Sánchez-Portal, D. J. Phys.: Condens. Matter 2002, 14, 2745-2779
16. Perdew, J. P.; Zunger, A. Phys. Rev. B 1981, 23, 5075
17. Troullier, N.; Martins, J. L. Phys. Rev. B 1991, 43, 1993
18. Kleinman, L.; Bylander, D. M. Phys. Rev. Lett. 1982, 48, 1425
19. Sankey, O. F.; Niklewski, D. J. Phys. Rev. B 1989, 40, 3979
20. Sankey, O. F.; Niklewski, D. J.; Drabold, D. A.; Dow, D. J. Phys. Rev. B 1990, 41, 12750
21. Junquera, J.; Paz, O.; Sanchez-Portal, D.; Artacho, E. Phys. Rev. B 2001, 64, 235111
22. Veinot, J. In Silicon nanocrystals: fundamentals, synthesis and applications; Pavesi, L.,; Turan, R., Eds.; Wiley-VCH Verlag: Weinheim, 2010.
23. Tomé, J.; Silva, S. private communication.
24. Lioudakis, E.; Othonos, A.; Alexandrou, I. Nanoscale Res. Lett. 2008, 3, 278
25. Ambrosio, F.; Martsinovich, N.; Troisi, A. J. Phys. Chem. C 2012, 116, 2622