Containing Polymers in Solar Cells

A plot of IPCE as the function of incident light wavelength usually reveals very important information regarding which functionalities in the sensitizing molecules are essential to the generation of excitons. 

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Applications of Metal Containing Polymers in Organic Solar Cells... 

This volume of the series focuses on the photochemistry and photophysics of metal-containing polymers. Metals imbedded within macromolecular protein matrices form the basis for the photosynthesis of plants. Metal-polymer complexes form the basis for many revolutionary advances occurring now. The contributors to many of these advances are authors of chapters in this volume. Application areas covered in this volume include nonlinear optical materials, solar cells, light-emitting diodes, photovoltaic cells, field-effect transistors, chemosensing devices, and biosensing devices. At the heart of each of these applications are metal atoms that allow the assembly to function as required. The use of boron-containing polymers in various electronic applications was described in Volume 8 of this series. 

Just as described for LEDs in the preceding section, the area of the heterojunction in solar cells with the planar structure shown in Fig. 10.3(a) is defined by the dimensions of the cell. Similarly, this area is dramatically increased by the use of blends of immiscible electron- and hole-transporting polymers (Moons, 2002). Carriers generated at the dispersed interface between the two polymers will be able to diffuse to the electrodes if the network contains... 

One extensively studied material system among the nanocrystal-polymer blends is zinc oxide (ZnO) in combination with MDMO-PPV or P3HT [273-282]. Beek et al. presented the first polymer solar cells containing ZnO nanoparticles, reaching power conversion efficiencies of 1.6% [273]. In this case the nanoparticles were prepared separately and then intermixed with MDMO-PPV in solution. Shortly after this study the Janssen group presented another route to ZnO-polymer hybrid solar cells by forming the nanocrystals in situ inside the film by applying a precursor [274]. Here, diethylzinc served as the precursor and was spin cast in blends with MDMO-PPV. Process-... 

Shi S, Wang X, Sun Y et al (2012) Porphyrin-containing D-Jt-A conjugated polymer with absorption over the entire spectram of visible light and its applications in solar cells. J Mater Chem 22(22) 11006-11008... 

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