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Pirashanthan A, Kajana T, Velauthapillai D, Shivatharsiny Y, Bentouba S, Ravirajan P. Roles of Interfacial Modifiers in Inorganic Titania/Organic Poly(3-hexylthiophene) Heterojunction Hybrid Solar Cells. Nanomaterials (Basel) 2022; 12:820. [PMID: 35269308 DOI: 10.3390/nano12050820] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/07/2022] [Revised: 02/23/2022] [Accepted: 02/24/2022] [Indexed: 11/17/2022]
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Hybrid Titanium dioxide/Poly(3-hexylthiophene) heterojunction solar cells have gained research interest as they have the potential to become cost-effective solar technology in the future. Limited power conversion efficiencies of about 5-6% have been reported so far, and an enhancement in efficiency was achieved through the engineering of the interface between Titanium dioxide (TiO2) and Poly(3-hexylthiophene) (P3HT). Evolution of this solar cell technology is relatively slow-moving due to the complex features of the metal oxide-polymer system and the limited understanding of the technology. In this review, we focus on recent developments in interface modified hybrid Titanium dioxide/Poly(3-hexylthiophene) solar cells, provide a short discussion on the working principle, device structure with interface modifiers, and summarize various types of interface modifiers studied to enhance the photovoltaic performance of hybrid TiO2/P3HT heterojunction solar cells. Further, we discuss the key factors influencing the power conversion efficiency and the role of a variety of interface modifiers in this regard. Finally, the challenges and perspectives related to hybrid TiO2/P3HT heterojunction solar cells are also explored.
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Ghadirzadeh A, Fumagalli F, Mezzetti A, Bellani S, Meda L, Antognazza MR, Di Fonzo F. A Three-Dimensional Architecture for Hydrogen-Evolving, Host/Guest, Hybrid Organic/Inorganic Photocathodes Based on Nanolamellar MoO3
Scaffolds. CHEMPHOTOCHEM 2018. [DOI: 10.1002/cptc.201700159] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/10/2022]
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- Ali Ghadirzadeh
- Center for Nano Science and Technology@PoliMi; Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia; Via Pascoli 70/3 20133 Milano Italy
- Sun-Air Research Institute; Ferdowsi University of Mashhad; Azadi Square 9177948974 Mashhad Iran
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- Center for Nano Science and Technology@PoliMi; Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia; Via Pascoli 70/3 20133 Milano Italy
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- Center for Nano Science and Technology@PoliMi; Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia; Via Pascoli 70/3 20133 Milano Italy
- Department of Energy; Politecnico di Milano; Via Lambruschini 4 2156 Milano Italy
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- Graphene Labs; Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia; Via Morego 30 16163 Genova Italy
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- Istituto ENI Donegani; ENI S.p.a.; Via G. Fauser 4 28100 Novara Italy
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- Center for Nano Science and Technology@PoliMi; Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia; Via Pascoli 70/3 20133 Milano Italy
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- Center for Nano Science and Technology@PoliMi; Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia; Via Pascoli 70/3 20133 Milano Italy
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Passoni L, Fumagalli F, Perego A, Bellani S, Mazzolini P, Di Fonzo F. Multi-layered hierarchical nanostructures for transparent monolithic dye-sensitized solar cell architectures. Nanotechnology 2017; 28:245603. [PMID: 28440788 DOI: 10.1088/1361-6528/aa6f4b] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/07/2023]
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Monolithic dye-sensitized solar cell (DSC) architectures hold great potential for building-integrated photovoltaics applications. They indeed benefit from lower weight and manufacturing costs as they avoid the use of a transparent conductive oxide (TCO)-coated glass counter electrode. In this work, a transparent monolithic DSC comprising a hierarchical 1D nanostructure stack is fabricated by physical vapor deposition techniques. The proof of concept device comprises hyperbranched TiO2 nanostructures, sensitized by the prototypical N719, as photoanode, a hierarchical nanoporous Al2O3 spacer, and a microporous indium tin oxide (ITO) top electrode. An overall 3.12% power conversion efficiency with 60% transmittance outside the dye absorption spectral window is demonstrated. The introduction of a porous TCO layer allows an efficient trade-off between transparency and power conversion. The porous ITO exhibits submicrometer voids and supports annealing temperatures above 400 °C without compromising its optoelectronical properties. After thermal annealing at 500 °C, the resistivity, mobility, and carrier concentration of the 800 nm-thick porous ITO layer are found to be respectively 2.3 × 10-3 Ω cm-1, 11 cm2 V-1 s-1, and 1.62 × 1020 cm-3, resulting in a series resistance in the complete device architecture of 45 Ω. Electrochemical impedance and intensity-modulated photocurrent/photovoltage spectroscopy give insight into the electronic charge dynamic within the hierarchical monolithic DSCs, paving the way for potential device architecture improvements.
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- Luca Passoni
- Center for Nanoscience and Technology @PoliMi, Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia, Via Pascoli 70/3, 20133 Milano, Italy. Dipartimento di Fisica, Politecnico di Milano, Piazza L. Da Vinci 32, 20133 Milano, Italy
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Shi Y, Yang Y, Dong G, Jiang Y, Wei L, Su T, Fan R. Three-dimensional flower-like rutile TiO2 microsphere composed of nanorods: a potential material as light scattering layer for DSSCs. Chem Res Chin Univ 2017; 33:298-304. [DOI: 10.1007/s40242-017-6363-z] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/25/2022]
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Dahiya AS, Opoku C, Poulin-Vittrant G, Camara N, Daumont C, Barbagiovanni EG, Franzò G, Mirabella S, Alquier D. Flexible Organic/Inorganic Hybrid Field-Effect Transistors with High Performance and Operational Stability. ACS Appl Mater Interfaces 2017; 9:573-584. [PMID: 28001361 DOI: 10.1021/acsami.6b13472] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/03/2023]
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The production of high-quality semiconducting nanostructures with optimized electrical, optical, and electromechanical properties is important for the advancement of next-generation technologies. In this context, we herein report on highly obliquely aligned single-crystalline zinc oxide nanosheets (ZnO NSs) grown via the vapor-liquid-solid approach using r-plane (01-12) sapphire as the template surface. The high structural and optical quality of as-grown ZnO NSs has been confirmed using high-resolution transmission electron microscopy and temperature-dependent photoluminescence, respectively. To assess the potential of our NSs as effective building materials in high-performance flexible electronics, we fabricate organic (parylene C)/inorganic (ZnO NS) hybrid field-effect transistor (FET) devices on flexible substrates using room-temperature assembly processes. Extraction of key FET performance parameters suggests that as-grown ZnO NSs can successfully function as excellent n-type semiconducting modules. Such devices are found to consistently show very high on-state currents (Ion) > 40 μA, high field-effect mobility (μeff) > 200 cm2/(V s), exceptionally high on/off current modulation ratio (Ion/off) of around 109, steep subthreshold swing (s-s) < 200 mV/decade, very low hysteresis, and negligible threshold voltage shifts with prolonged electrical stressing (up to 340 min). The present study delivers a concept of integrating high-quality ZnO NS as active semiconducting elements in flexible electronic circuits.
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- Abhishek S Dahiya
- Université François Rabelais de Tours, CNRS, GREMAN UMR 7347 , 16 rue Pierre et Marie Curie, 37071 Cedex 2 Tours, France
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- Université François Rabelais de Tours, CNRS, GREMAN UMR 7347 , 16 rue Pierre et Marie Curie, 37071 Cedex 2 Tours, France
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- Université François Rabelais de Tours, INSA-CVL, CNRS, GREMAN UMR 7347 , 3 rue de la Chocolaterie, CS 23410, 41034 Cedex Blois, France
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- Université François Rabelais de Tours, CNRS, GREMAN UMR 7347 , 16 rue Pierre et Marie Curie, 37071 Cedex 2 Tours, France
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- Université François Rabelais de Tours, CNRS, GREMAN UMR 7347 , 16 rue Pierre et Marie Curie, 37071 Cedex 2 Tours, France
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- MATIS IMM-CNR and Dipartimento di Fisica e Astronomia, Universita' di Catania , via S. Sofia 64, 95123 Catania, Italy
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- MATIS IMM-CNR and Dipartimento di Fisica e Astronomia, Universita' di Catania , via S. Sofia 64, 95123 Catania, Italy
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- MATIS IMM-CNR and Dipartimento di Fisica e Astronomia, Universita' di Catania , via S. Sofia 64, 95123 Catania, Italy
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- Université François Rabelais de Tours, CNRS, GREMAN UMR 7347 , 16 rue Pierre et Marie Curie, 37071 Cedex 2 Tours, France
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Zhang L, Lin H, Wu Y, Zhuo S. Interfacial electron transfer of P3HT/PDI/ZnO nanocomposite and its application in visible-light detection. Chem Phys Lett 2016. [DOI: 10.1016/j.cplett.2016.08.079] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/30/2022]
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Yang B, Mahjouri-Samani M, Rouleau CM, Geohegan DB, Xiao K. Low temperature synthesis of hierarchical TiO2 nanostructures for high performance perovskite solar cells by pulsed laser deposition. Phys Chem Chem Phys 2016; 18:27067-27072. [DOI: 10.1039/c6cp02896a] [Citation(s) in RCA: 24] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/21/2022]
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High aspect-ratio TiO2 nanostructures directly assembled with pulsed laser deposition could improve interfacial contact for superior perovskite photovoltaic cells.
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- Bin Yang
- Center for Nanophase Materials Sciences
- Oak Ridge National Laboratory
- Oak Ridge
- USA
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- Center for Nanophase Materials Sciences
- Oak Ridge National Laboratory
- Oak Ridge
- USA
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- Center for Nanophase Materials Sciences
- Oak Ridge National Laboratory
- Oak Ridge
- USA
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Lin H, Wu Y, Yu Z, Fu H. Broadband photoresponse promoted by interfacial electron transfer in diketopyrrolopyrrole-based compound/ZnO hybrid nanocomposites. NEW J CHEM 2016. [DOI: 10.1039/c5nj02192h] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/04/2023]
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High photoresponse covering the UV-vis region was realized in the TTDPP/ZnO hybrid system, which is attributed to the efficient cascade electron transfer process.
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- Hongtao Lin
- Beijing National Laboratory for Molecular Science (BNLMS)
- State Key Laboratory for Structural Chemistry of Unstable and Stable Species
- CAS Key Laboratory of Photochemistry
- Institute of Chemistry
- Chinese Academy of Sciences
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- Beijing National Laboratory for Molecular Science (BNLMS)
- State Key Laboratory for Structural Chemistry of Unstable and Stable Species
- CAS Key Laboratory of Photochemistry
- Institute of Chemistry
- Chinese Academy of Sciences
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- Beijing National Laboratory for Molecular Science (BNLMS)
- State Key Laboratory for Structural Chemistry of Unstable and Stable Species
- CAS Key Laboratory of Photochemistry
- Institute of Chemistry
- Chinese Academy of Sciences
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- Beijing National Laboratory for Molecular Science (BNLMS)
- State Key Laboratory for Structural Chemistry of Unstable and Stable Species
- CAS Key Laboratory of Photochemistry
- Institute of Chemistry
- Chinese Academy of Sciences
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