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ADVANCED FUNCTIONAL MATERIALS
Volume 20, Issue 13, Pages 2157-2164Publisher
WILEY-V C H VERLAG GMBH
DOI: 10.1002/adfm.200902471
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- National Science Foundation [DMR-0819885]
- NSF [CBET-0500332]
- University of Minnesota
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Silicon nanocrystals (Si NCs) are shown to be an electron acceptor in hybrid solar cells combining Si NCs with poly(3-hexylthiophene) (P3HT). The effects of annealing and different metal electrodes on Si NC/P3HT hybrid solar cells are studied in this paper. After annealing at 150 degrees C, Si NC/P3HT solar cells exhibit power conversion efficiencies as high as 1.47%. The hole mobility in the P3HT phase extracted from space-charge-limited current measurements of hole-only devices increases from 2.48 x 10(-10) to 1.11 X 10(-9) m(2) V(-1) s(-1) after annealing, resulting in better transport in the solar cells. A quenching of the open-circuit voltage and short-circuit current is observed when high work function metals are deposited as the cathode on Si NC/P3HT hybrid devices.
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