Hybrid Heterojunction Nanorods for Nanoscale Controlled Morphology in Bulk Heterojunction Solar Cells

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• 作者：Jose Mawyin ; Ivan Shupyk ; Mingqing Wang ; Guillaume Poize ; Pedro Atienzar ; Thilini Ishwara ; James R. Durrant ; Jenny Nelson ; Daiki Kanehira ; Noriyuki Yoshimoto ; Cyril Martini ; Ekaterina Shilova ; Patrick Secondo ; Hugues Brisset ; Frederic Fages ; Jo虉rg Ackermann
• 刊名：Journal of Physical Chemistry C
• 出版年：2011
• 出版时间：June 2, 2011
• 年：2011
• 卷：115
• 期：21
• 页码：10881-10888
• 全文大小：974K
• 年卷期：v.115,no.21(June 2, 2011)
• ISSN：1932-7455

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In this study, we report bulk heterojunction solar cells using hybrid heterojunction nanorods as photoactive material. The core鈥搒hell nanorods are obtained via self-assembly of low band gap p-type oligomers onto ZnO nanorod surfaces. This produces highly soluble donor鈥揳cceptor nanostructures that feature a grafted p-type semiconducting monolayer with a band gap of 2.1 eV. The solution processing of the coaxial nanorods into thin films leads to bulk heterojunctions of particularly large donor鈥揳cceptor interfaces. Importantly by simple processing donor domains smaller than typical exciton diffusion length of organic semiconductors are obtained which guaranties efficient exciton dissociation. The corresponding solar cells reveal that the hydrid nanorod layers form efficient interpenetrated networks which lead to external quantum efficiency of 20% at the absorption maximum 位_max = 498 nm. Although the donor domains of these hybrid bulk heterojunction are constituted by monolayers, transient absorption spectroscopy could evidence long-lived photoinduced charge carrier generation of significant intensity. Thus the described hybrid heterojunction nanorods represent a promising strategy toward nanoscale controlled bulk heterojunction solar cells.