Organic photovoltaic applications

An endohedral fullerene, LusNcgCgo, has been used as an acceptor material in organic photovoltaic applications. For processing into devices the endohedral fullerene must be exohedrally modified to overcome the insolubility of... 

Blase X, Attaccalite C, Olevano V (2011) First-principles GW calculations for fulleienes, porphyrins, phthalocyanine, and other molecules of interest for organic photovoltaic applications. Phys Rev B 83 115103... 

Figure 14.2. Ultrasonic spray deposited CuInSe2 film for photovoltaic applications using mixed-metal organic precursors. XRD shows (left) the growth of nearly phase pure CuInSe2, and optical micrographs show reasonable morphologies (right).

Once the synthetic methodologies were developed, the research efforts were focused on the preparation of photoactive systems where fullerenes had already shown potential applicability, such as organic photovoltaic materials. In these molecular-scale engineered systems, a fullerene electron acceptor contained in one submolecular fragment is coupled with an electron donor contained in the opposite component. Zinc porphyrins were thus coupled to in many different architectures such as, for instance, in that shown in Scheme 9.11, where the ZnP was appended to... 

Present interest in disc-like aromatic molecules results mainly from their application as ID charge carrier materials for use in photoconductors, light emitting devices, organic transistors, and photovoltaic applications [265]. 

Hews-Taylor K (2002) Artificial photosynthesis, basic research in biomimetic applications multilayer organic photovoltaic cell. CSIRO, Australia... 

Waldauf C, Scharber MC, Schilinsky P, Hauch JA, Brabec CJ (2006) Physics of organic bulk heterojunction devices for photovoltaic applications. J Appl Phys 99 104503... 

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