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Highly Efficient Nanoscale Inorganic Light Harvesters for Dye-sensitized Solar Cells

Since the first report of the low-cost dye-sensitized solar cell (DSSC) in 1991 by Gratzel and his coworker,1 dye-sensitized solar cells (DSSC) has been regarded as one of the most promising photovoltaic technologies because of their transparent and colorful characteristics

Optoelectronic Devices Based on Diketopyrrolopyrrole (DPP)-containing Conjugated Small Molecules

Synthesis, Properties, and Applications of Perovskite-Phase Metal Oxide Nanostructures

Few Monolayer Atomic Layer Deposition (ALD) on Surfaces and Interfaces for Energy Applications

High Purity Metalorganic Precursors for CPV Device Fabrication

Recent Advances in Hybrid Halide Perovskites-based Solar Cells

For several decades, the need for an environmentally sustainable and commercially viable source of energy has driven extensive research aimed at achieving high efficiency power generation systems that can be manufactured at low cost.

Organic Field Effect Transistors Based on DNTT and Related Organic Semiconductors

Highly extended polyacenes such as pentacene and naphthacene have been essential organic semiconductors for high-performance organic field-effect transistors (OFETs). Among the range of thienoacene-based organic semiconductors, materials with an internal thieno[3,2-b]thiophene substructure, such as DNTT and BTBT, have shown

Organic Photovoltaics in IoT, Architecture, and Wearables

Advances in OPV materials & device design; OPV technology as an energy source, enabling larger deployment of low-power, low-maintenance, & environmentally friendly hardware solutions is discussed.

Ultra-High Efficiency Perovskite-Perovskite Tandem Solar Cells

Next generation solar cells have the potential to achieve conversion efficiencies beyond the Shockley-Queisser (S-Q) limit while also significantly lowering production costs.

Inverted Organic Photovoltaic Devices Using Zinc Oxide Nanocomposites as Electron Transporting Layer Materials

Organic photovoltaics (OPVs) represent a low-cost, lightweight, and scalable alternative to conventional solar cells. While significant progress has been made in the development of conventional bulk heterojunction cells, new approaches are required to achieve the performance and stability necessary to

Development of Organic Semiconductors from Highly Ordered Oligo and Polythiophenes

The soaring global demand for energy, coupled with the limited supply of fossil fuels, has increased the need for renewable, low-cost energy sources. Organic electronics have shown great promise for applications in lighting, power, and circuitry, with rapidly improving performance

Understanding and Successfully Applying Materials for Dye-Sensitized Solar Cells

While dye sensitization as the basis for color photography has been accepted for a very long time,1 attempts to use this principle for the conversion of solar light to electricity generally had resulted only in very low photocurrents, below 100

Lanthanide Ions as Photon Managers for Solar Cells

Spectral conversion for solar cells is an emerging concept in the field of photovoltaics, and it has the potential to increase significantly the efficiency of solar cells. Lanthanide ions are ideal candidates for spectral conversion, due to their high luminescence

Progress for High Performance Tandem Organic Solar Cells

Professor Chen (Nankai University, China) and his team explain the strategies behind their recent record-breaking organic solar cells, reaching a power conversion efficiency of 17.3%.

Quantum Dots for Electronics and Energy Applications

In this article, the properties of some of the new non-cadmium based QDs along with different applications of QDs are summarized.

Advances in Colloidal Quantum Dots for Applications in the Visible Spectrum

Colloidal quantum dots are nano-meter sized, single-crystalline semiconductor fragments that can have highly customizable optical, electronic, and chemical properties through controlled synthesis.

Infrared Lead Sulfide Quantum Dots: Properties and Applications

Infrared lead sulfide (PbS)-based quantum dots absorb and emit light across the near-infrared and short-wave infrared wavelengths. Our PbS quantum dots have well-characterized optoelectronic properties and surface chemistry suitable for integration into photodetectors, photovoltaics, and infrared LEDs.

Materials for High and Low Refractive Index Coatings

Refractive index (RI or n) is of critical importance for photonics applications such as optical waveguides and ophthalmic devices. Based on their unique refractive index characteristics and good optical clarity, polymeric materials are also used as anti-reflective coatings for solar

High-Purity Sublimed Materials for Organic Electronic Devices

Sublimed materials for organic electronic devices such of OFETs and OTFTs allow the achievement of better electronic properties, and may help increase a device’s lifetime.

Metal-Organic Frameworks in Sustainable Energy Technologies

Metal-organic frameworks, a subset of coordination polymers, represent a powerful new tool for a plethora of alternative energy applications. MOFs are readily available using simple synthetic strategies that supply tailored, high surface area materials.

PCBM-Based n-Type Semiconductors

PCBM-based n-type semiconductors - Find p- and n-type organic semiconductors available with PCBM library & properties.

Perovskite Solar Cells

Dr. Perini and Professor Correa-Baena discuss the latest research and effort to obtain higher performance and stability of perovskite materials.

Fullerene-Based n-Type Semiconductors in Organic Electronics

Since the first publication in 1995 describing a bulk heterojunction photodiode incorporating a methanofullerene, significant progress has been made in improving device performance and the scope of device research has broadened widely.

Efficient dye-sensitized solar cells for direct conversion of sunlight to electricity

Dye-sensitized solar cells directly convert sunlight to electricity

Fullerenes for Bioscience & Photovoltaic Applications

Find various photovoltaic and bioscience-based applications of fullerenes.

Organic Dyes for Efficient and Stable Dye-Sensitized Solar Cells

Over the last decade, dye-sensitized solar cells (DSSCs) have attracted much attention because these unconventional solar cells exhibit high performance and have the potential for low-cost production.

A Review of Mesoporous TiO2 Thin Films

Titanium dioxide (TiO2) is an important n-type semiconducting material that shows interesting characteristics such as photoswitchable surface wettability, high photocatalytic activity, bistable electrical resistance states and high electron drift mobility.

Titania Nanotubes: Synthesis and Applications

Electronically, it behaves as a wide band gap (3.2 eV) semiconductor and exhibits memristor properties.2 Optically, TiO2 has high opacity with a very high refractive index3 (>2.4), and it exhibits strong absorbance in the UV range.

Chemical Deposition Techniques in Materials Design

We presents an article regarding chemical deposition techniques in materials design.

Precise Nanoparticles for Optoelectronics Applications

Inorganic nanomaterials are tunable by size, shape, structure, and/or composition. Advances in the synthesis of well-defined nanomaterials have enabled control over their unique optical, electronic, and chemical properties stimulating tremendous interest across a wide range of disciplines. This article illuminates

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