Electrically active polymers barriers

The absence of solvents in such solid-polymer-electrolyte photovoltaic cells presents the possibility of fabricating corrosion-free systems. The thin-film solid-state cells also allow fabrication of multispectral cells composed of more than one semiconductor in optical and electrical series. A solid-state photovoltaic cell, n-Si/Pt/PP/PEO(K.I/ l2)/Pt/ITO, was studied. The surface modifications of n-Si with PP can dramatically reduce the large activation energy barrier against efficient charge transfer between semiconductor and polymer-solid electrolyte. The efficiency of this cell is limited by a high surface recombination velocity associated with surface states of the n-Si. The cell had V = 225 mV and 11 niA cm at 100 mW cm illumination with junction ideality factor of 1.5. This implies the existence of deleterious surface states acting as recombination centres. 

Furthermore, another advantage of nanofillers is not only to reinforce the rubber matrix but also to impart a number of other properties such as barrier properties, flammability resistance, electrical/electronic and membrane properties, and polymer blend compatibility. In spite of tremendous research activities in the field of polymer nanocomposites during the last two decades, elastomeric nanocomposites... 

We have shown an extreme enhancement of the exciplex emission in bilayer EL as compared to PL and the appearance of weak exciton EL only through thermal activation from the exciplex at higher temperatures. At low temperatures, the exciton contribution is frozen out completely and only exciplex electroluminescence is seen. This demonstrates unambiguously that the only source of bulk excitons during electrical excitation is endothermic energy transfer from exciplex states that are generated via barrier-free electron-hole capture and confirms the work presented in Section 2.2.1 that was based on room-temperature emission from polymer blend LEDs and time-resolved PL. 

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