Photovoltaic performance improvement of organic solar cell with ZnO nanorod arrays as electron transport layer using carbon quantum dots-incorporated photoactive …

NA Issa, CC Yap, ST Tan, KJ Hong, KS Lau… - Optical Materials, 2022 - Elsevier
The carbon quantum dots (CQDs) with astonishing optical and electrical features have been
utilized to improve the photovoltaic performance of organic solar cells (OSCs). In this work …

Role of solvent used to cast P3HT thin films on the performance of ZnO/P3HT hybrid photo detector

C Shalu, M Shukla, A Tiwari, J Agrawal… - Physica E: Low …, 2020 - Elsevier
The effect of ZnO nanostructured morphology and the role of casting solvent for the active
layer of P3HT have been investigated in terms of improved photo response of ZnO/Poly (3 …

Toward bulk heterojunction polymer solar cells with thermally stable active layer morphology

I Cardinaletti, J Kesters, S Bertho… - … of Photonics for …, 2014 - spiedigitallibrary.org
When state-of-the-art bulk heterojunction organic solar cells with ideal morphology are
exposed to prolonged storage or operation at elevated temperatures, a thermally induced …

Quantifying local thickness and composition in thin films of organic photovoltaic blends by Raman scattering

X Rodríguez-Martínez, MS Vezie, X Shi… - Journal of Materials …, 2017 - pubs.rsc.org
We report a methodology based on Raman spectroscopy that enables the non-invasive and
fast quantitative determination of local thickness and composition in thin films (from a few …

High efficient and stabilized photovoltaics via morphology manipulating in active layer by rod-coil block copolymers comprising different hydrophilic to hydrophobic …

S Agbolaghi, F Abbasi, H Gheybi - European Polymer Journal, 2016 - Elsevier
Abstract The poly (3-hexylthiophene)(P3HT)-based block copolymers were synthesized with
hydrophilic and hydrophobic dielectric blocks including poly (ethylene glycol)(PEG), poly …

Remarkable self-organization and unusual conductivity behavior in cellulose nanocrystal-PEDOT: PSS nanocomposites

KM Alam, P Kar, UK Thakur, R Kisslinger… - Journal of Materials …, 2019 - Springer
Aqueous suspensions of cellulose nanocrystals were blended with Poly (3, 4-
ethylenedioxythiophene): poly (styrene sulfonate)[PEDOT: PSS], and cast into thin films. The …

Annealing-free multi-thermal techniques comprising aging, cycling and seeding to enhance performance of thick P3HT: PCBM photovoltaic cells via developing hairy …

S Agbolaghi, F Abbasi, S Zenoozi, M Nazari - Materials Science in …, 2017 - Elsevier
Distinct multi-thermal treatments comprising cycling, aging, and seeding were introduced to
prepare very thick bulk heterojunction (BHJ) active layers (ca. 800 nm) of poly (3 …

Ion irradiation induced modifications of P3HT: A donor material for organic photovoltaic devices

T Sharma, R Singhal, R Vishnoi, G Lakshmi, S Chand… - Vacuum, 2017 - Elsevier
Abstract The modifications of Poly (3-Hexylthiophene)(P3HT) thin films have been
investigated by irradiating with 90 MeV Ni 7+ ions at different fluences (1× 10 9 to 1× 10 11 …

Interfacial self-assembly of amphiphilic conjugated block copolymer into 2D nanotapes

XS Guo, ZK Zhang, TY Zhang, ZZ Tong, JT Xu, ZQ Fan - Soft Matter, 2019 - pubs.rsc.org
In the present work, the evaporation-induced interfacial self-assembly behavior of an
amphiphilic conjugated polymer, poly (3-hexylthiophene)-b-poly (acrylic acid)(P3HT-b-PAA) …

Improved performance of organic photovoltaic cells with PTB7-Th: PC71 BM by optimized solvent evaporation time in electrospray deposition

T Fukuda, A Toda, K Takahira, D Kuzuhara… - Organic …, 2017 - Elsevier
Abstract As poly [4, 8-bis (5-(2-ethylhexyl) thiophen-2-yl) benzo [1, 2-b; 4, 5-b′] dithiophene-
2, 6-diyl-alt-(4-(2-ethylhexyl)-3-fluorothieno [3, 4-b] thiophene-)-2-carboxylate-2-6-diyl)] has …