Flexible organic photovoltaics from zinc oxide nanowires grown on transparent and conducting single walled carbon nanotube thin films

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2008-01-01

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Ünalan, Hüsnü Emrah
Hiralal, Pritesh
Kuo, Daniel
Parekh, Bhavin
Amaratunga, Gehan
Chhowalla, Manish

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The fabrication of flexible organic photovoltaics (OPVs) which utilize transparent and conducting single walled carbon nanotube (SWNT) thin films as current collecting electrodes on plastic substrates in zinc oxide nanowire (ZnO NW)/poly(3-hexylthiophene) (P3HT) bulk heterojunction photovoltaic devices is reported. The bulk heterojunctions for exciton dissociation are created by directly growing ZnO nanowires from solution on the SWNT electrodes and spin coating the P3HT polymer. A maximum OPV power conversion efficiency of similar to 0.6% was achieved. Our results indicate that nanotube-nanowire hybrids fabricated via solution based methods are promising for optoelectronic and energy harvesting devices.

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Materials Chemistry, General Chemistry

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https://hdl.handle.net/11511/44460

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Department of Metallurgical and Materials Engineering, Article