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JOURNAL OF PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY C
Volume 113, Issue 43, Pages 18968-18972Publisher
AMER CHEMICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1021/jp907942p
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- U.S. Department of Energy [DE-AC36-08GO28308]
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As a newly developed photovoltaic technology, organic-inorganic hybrid solar cells have attracted great interest because of the combined advantages from both components. An ideal inorganic acceptor should have a band gap of about 1.5 eV and energy levels of frontier orbitals matching those of the organic polymer in hybrid solar cells. Hybrid density functional calculations are performed to search for optimal inorganic nanomaterials for hybrid-solar sells based on poly(3-hexylthiophene) (P3HT). Our results demonstrate that InSb quantum dots or quantum wires can have a band gap of about 1.5 eV and highest occupied molecular orbital level about 0.4 eV lower than P3HT, indicating that they are good candidates for use in hybrid solar cells. In addition, we predict that chalcopyrite MgSnSb2 quantum wire could be a low-cost material for realizing high-efficiency hybrid solar cells.
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