Polymer-nanoparticle hybrid solar cell

Author

Lee, Changhee ; Kim, Jun Young ; Amsden, Jason J. ; Lee, Donggu ; Yoon, Do Y.

Author_Institution

Global Frontier Center for Multiscale Energy Syst., Seoul Nat. Univ., Seoul, South Korea

fYear

2012

fDate

2-6 July 2012

Firstpage

101

Lastpage

102

Abstract

The fabrication of polymer solar cells on large-area, flexible substrates offers the possibility for developing lower-cost commercial solar cells, although their efficiency is still quite low compared to other thin film solar cells. Here, we have investigated polymer-nanoparticle (NP) hybrid solar cells consisting of donor polymers and CdSe or ZnO nanoparticles. The P3HT-CdSe hybrid solar cells show a power conversion efficiency (PCE) of 1.46 %. The MDMO-PPV:ZnO hybrid solar cells show a PCE of 1.26 % The low PCE is due to insulating organic ligands in NP surfaces and poor network of NP nanocrystals for the extraction of electrons.

Keywords

II-VI semiconductors; cadmium compounds; nanoparticles; organic-inorganic hybrid materials; polymers; power conversion; solar cells; wide band gap semiconductors; zinc compounds; CdSe; ZnO; donor polymers; electron extraction; flexible substrates; insulating organic ligands; lower-cost commercial solar cells; polymer-nanoparticle hybrid solar cell; power conversion efficiency; Annealing; Educational institutions; Indium tin oxide; Nanoparticles; Photovoltaic cells; Polymers; Zinc oxide;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Opto-Electronics and Communications Conference (OECC), 2012 17th

Conference_Location

Busan

ISSN

2166-8884

Print_ISBN

978-1-4673-0976-9

Electronic_ISBN

2166-8884

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/OECC.2012.6276391

Filename

6276391