A fullerene-single wall carbon nanotube complex for polymer bulk heterojunction photovoltaic cells

Cheng Li; Yuhong Chen; Yubing Wang; Zafar Iqbal; Manish Chhowalla; Somenath Mitra

doi:10.1039/b618518e

A fullerene-single wall carbon nanotube complex for polymer bulk heterojunction photovoltaic cells

Cheng Li, Yuhong Chen, Yubing Wang, Zafar Iqbal, Manish Chhowalla, Somenath Mitra

School of Engineering, Materials Science & Engineering

Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

192 Scopus citations

Abstract

A novel immobilized fullerene-single wall carbon nanotube (C ₆₀-SWCNT) complex was synthesized via a microwave induced functionalization approach. It has been used as a component of the photoactive layer in a bulk heterojunction photovoltaic cell. As compared to a control device with only C₆₀, the addition of SWCNTs resulted in an improvement of both the short circuit current density J_SC and the fill factor (FF). This device takes advantage of the electron accepting feature of C₆₀ and the high electron transport capability of SWCNTs. The results indicate that C₆₀ decorated SWCNTs are promising additives for performance enhancement of polymer photovoltaic cells.

Original language	English (US)
Pages (from-to)	2406-2411
Number of pages	6
Journal	Journal of Materials Chemistry
Volume	17
Issue number	23
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1039/b618518e
State	Published - 2007

All Science Journal Classification (ASJC) codes

General Chemistry
Materials Chemistry

Access to Document

10.1039/b618518e

Cite this

@article{4dbcd46ff5714880bf0f8fb92df79a98,

title = "A fullerene-single wall carbon nanotube complex for polymer bulk heterojunction photovoltaic cells",

abstract = "A novel immobilized fullerene-single wall carbon nanotube (C 60-SWCNT) complex was synthesized via a microwave induced functionalization approach. It has been used as a component of the photoactive layer in a bulk heterojunction photovoltaic cell. As compared to a control device with only C60, the addition of SWCNTs resulted in an improvement of both the short circuit current density JSC and the fill factor (FF). This device takes advantage of the electron accepting feature of C60 and the high electron transport capability of SWCNTs. The results indicate that C60 decorated SWCNTs are promising additives for performance enhancement of polymer photovoltaic cells.",

author = "Cheng Li and Yuhong Chen and Yubing Wang and Zafar Iqbal and Manish Chhowalla and Somenath Mitra",

year = "2007",

doi = "10.1039/b618518e",

language = "English (US)",

volume = "17",

pages = "2406--2411",

journal = "Journal of Materials Chemistry",

issn = "0959-9428",

publisher = "Royal Society of Chemistry",

number = "23",

}

TY - JOUR

T1 - A fullerene-single wall carbon nanotube complex for polymer bulk heterojunction photovoltaic cells

AU - Li, Cheng

AU - Chen, Yuhong

AU - Wang, Yubing

AU - Iqbal, Zafar

AU - Chhowalla, Manish

AU - Mitra, Somenath

PY - 2007

Y1 - 2007

N2 - A novel immobilized fullerene-single wall carbon nanotube (C 60-SWCNT) complex was synthesized via a microwave induced functionalization approach. It has been used as a component of the photoactive layer in a bulk heterojunction photovoltaic cell. As compared to a control device with only C60, the addition of SWCNTs resulted in an improvement of both the short circuit current density JSC and the fill factor (FF). This device takes advantage of the electron accepting feature of C60 and the high electron transport capability of SWCNTs. The results indicate that C60 decorated SWCNTs are promising additives for performance enhancement of polymer photovoltaic cells.

AB - A novel immobilized fullerene-single wall carbon nanotube (C 60-SWCNT) complex was synthesized via a microwave induced functionalization approach. It has been used as a component of the photoactive layer in a bulk heterojunction photovoltaic cell. As compared to a control device with only C60, the addition of SWCNTs resulted in an improvement of both the short circuit current density JSC and the fill factor (FF). This device takes advantage of the electron accepting feature of C60 and the high electron transport capability of SWCNTs. The results indicate that C60 decorated SWCNTs are promising additives for performance enhancement of polymer photovoltaic cells.

UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=34250027301&partnerID=8YFLogxK

UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/citedby.url?scp=34250027301&partnerID=8YFLogxK

U2 - 10.1039/b618518e

DO - 10.1039/b618518e

M3 - Article

AN - SCOPUS:34250027301

SN - 0959-9428

VL - 17

SP - 2406

EP - 2411

JO - Journal of Materials Chemistry

JF - Journal of Materials Chemistry

IS - 23

ER -

A fullerene-single wall carbon nanotube complex for polymer bulk heterojunction photovoltaic cells

Abstract

All Science Journal Classification (ASJC) codes

Access to Document

Other files and links

Fingerprint

Cite this