Synergistic concurrent enhancement of charge generation, dissociation, and transport in organic solar cells with plasmonic metal-carbon nanotube hybrids.

Lee, Ju Min; Lim, Joonwon; Lee, Nayeun; Park, Hyung Il; Lee, Kyung Eun; Jeon, Taewoo; Nam, Soo Ah; Kim, Jehan et al. · Adv Mater · 2015

basic_science · Level V

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Abstract

Plasmonic nanostructures are synthesized by decorating B- or N-doped carbon nanotubes (CNTs) with Au nanoparticles. While the plasmonic nanoparticles promote exciton generation and dissociation, the B- and N-doped CNTs enable charge-selective transport enhancement in the organic active layer. Such concurrent enhancements of all the principal energy-harvesting steps improve the device efficiency up to 9.98% for organic single-junction solar cells.