Interfacial materials for organic solar cells: recent advances and perspectives

Z Yin, J Wei, Q Zheng - Advanced Science, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
Organic solar cells (OSCs) have shown great promise as low‐cost photovoltaic devices for
solar energy conversion over the past decade. Interfacial engineering provides a powerful …

Hot Electrons in TiO2–Noble Metal Nano-Heterojunctions: Fundamental Science and Applications in Photocatalysis

AP Manuel, K Shankar - Nanomaterials, 2021 - mdpi.com
Plasmonic photocatalysis enables innovation by harnessing photonic energy across a broad
swathe of the solar spectrum to drive chemical reactions. This review provides a …

Solution-processable ionic liquid as an independent or modifying electron transport layer for high-efficiency perovskite solar cells

Q Wu, W Zhou, Q Liu, P Zhou, T Chen… - … applied materials & …, 2016 - ACS Publications
Inorganic metal oxide, especially TiO2, has been commonly used as an electron transport
layer (ETL) in regular-structure (nip) planar heterojunction perovskite solar cells (PHJ-PSCs) …

Improving the conductivity of PEDOT: PSS hole transport layer in polymer solar cells via copper (II) bromide salt doping

Z Zhao, Q Wu, F Xia, X Chen, Y Liu… - … applied materials & …, 2015 - ACS Publications
Copper (II) bromide (CuBr2) salt has been applied to dope poly (3, 4-ethylene
dioxythiophene): poly (styrenesulfonate)(PEDOT: PSS) as the hole transport layer (HTL) in …

Triple junction polymer solar cells

O Adebanjo, PP Maharjan, P Adhikary… - Energy & …, 2013 - pubs.rsc.org
Similar to single and double junction polymer solar cells, triple junction devices can also be
fabricated from all-solution processing. Although single and double junction polymer solar …

Nanoscale control of grain boundary potential barrier, dopant density and filled trap state density for higher efficiency perovskite solar cells

B Bahrami, S Mabrouk, N Adhikari, H Elbohy… - InfoMat, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
In this work, grain boundary (GB) potential barrier (Δφ GB), dopant density (Pnet), and filled
trap state density (PGB, trap) were manipulated at the nanoscale by exposing the fabricated …

[HTML][HTML] Energy level alignment and nanoscale investigation of a-TiO2/Cu-Zn-Sn-S interface for alternative electron transport layer in earth abundant Cu-Zn-Sn-S solar …

N Nisika, K Kaur, K Arora, AH Chowdhury… - Journal of Applied …, 2019 - pubs.aip.org
Efficiency of earth abundant and pure sulfide kesterite Cu-Zn-Sn-S (CZTS) solar cell has
been stagnant around 9.4% for years, while its counterpart Cu-In-Ga-Se (CIGS) reports an …

An ethanolamine-functionalized fullerene as an efficient electron transport layer for high-efficiency inverted polymer solar cells

J Zhen, Q Liu, X Chen, D Li, Q Qiao, Y Lu… - Journal of Materials …, 2016 - pubs.rsc.org
An ethanolamine (ETA)-functionalized fullerene (C60-ETA) was synthesized by using a
facile one-pot addition reaction, and applied as an efficient electron transport layer (ETL) for …

Isopropanol-treated PEDOT: PSS as electron transport layer in polymer solar cells

W Zhang, X Bi, X Zhao, Z Zhao, J Zhu, S Dai, Y Lu… - Organic …, 2014 - Elsevier
Abstract Isopropanol (IPA)-treated poly (3, 4-ethylenedioxithiophene): poly (styrene
sulfonate)(PEDOT: PSS) was applied as a new electron transport layer (ETL) in P3HT …

Enhanced performance of polymer solar cell with ZnO nanoparticle electron transporting layer passivated by in situ cross-linked three-dimensional polymer network

Z Wu, T Song, Z Xia, H Wei, B Sun - Nanotechnology, 2013 - iopscience.iop.org
An in situ cross-linked three-dimensional polymer network has been developed to passivate
ZnO nanoparticles as an electron transporting layer (ETL) to improve the performance of …