Charge generation and energy transfer in hybrid polymer/infrared quantum dot solar cells

Role of Polymer in Hybrid Polymer/PbS Quantum Dot Solar Cells

“…To produce colloidally stable arenethiolate-capped PbS QDs, the as-synthesized QDs were treated with a slight excess of pmethylbenzenethiol/triethylamine following an already published protocol. 12 In a typical ligand exchange procedure, 300 equivalents of p-methylbenzenethiol/triethylamine were added slowly to a 1 mM PbS QDs solution in dichlorobenzene. Then the mixture was purified by adding hexane and methanol, centrifuging and dissolving in dichlorobenzene.…”

Considerably improved photovoltaic performance of carbon nanotube-based solar cells using metal oxide layers

“…O ver the past decade, photovoltaic devices using nanoscale materials, such as semiconductor quantum dots [1][2][3] , nanowires [4][5][6] and so on 7 , have been extensively studied. Carbon nanotubes with cylinder-like, one-dimensional structures have attracted much interest for photovoltaic applications because of their electronic and optical properties [8][9][10][11] , including the ability to tune their band gaps over a wide wavelength range 12 , high carrier mobilities along their one-dimensional axes 13,14 and high optical transparency values with low resistivity 15 .…”

Photoactive Compounds Based on the Thiazolo[5,4‐d]thiazole Core and Their Application in Organic and Hybrid Photovoltaics

“…[101] In addition, some thiazolothiazole polymers were also employed as photoactive materials in studies analyzing various aspects of OSC manufacturing and optimization, such as the influence of processing additives, [102] the fabrication of tandem, double-junction solar cells, [103,104] and the development of organic solar modules. [105] …”