Project Results

Research Areas & Activities Solar Energy Hot Carrier Solar Cell: Implementation of the Ultimate Photovoltaic Converter Lateral Nanoconcentrator Nanowire Multijunction Photovoltaic Cells Plasmonic Photovoltaics Molecular Solar Cells Advanced Materials and Devices for Low-Cost and High-Performance Organic Photovoltaic Cells Inorganic Nanocomposite Solar Cells by ALD Nanostructured Metal-Organic Composite Solar Cells Nanostructured Silicon-Based Tandem Solar Cells Photosynthetic Bioelectricity Ordered Bulk Heterojunction Photovoltaic Cells Biomass Energy Hydrogen Advanced Combustion CO₂ Capture CO₂ Storage Advanced Materials & Catalysts Advanced Coal Advanced Transportation Other Renewables Integrated Assessment Advanced Nuclear Energy Energy Distribution & Infrastructures Geoengineering All Activities Analysis Activities Technical Reports

Research

Results and Publications

Ordered Bulk Heterojunction Photovoltaic Cells

January 2003 - August 2007

Investigator

Michael McGehee, Department of Materials Science, Stanford University

Annual Reports

Publications

V. Gowrishankar, SR, Scully, MD, McGehee, Q,Wang, HM, Branz, “Exciton splitting and carrier transport across the amorphous-silicon/polymer solar cell interface”, Applied Physics Letters, 89 p. 252102-1-3 (2006)
Gowrishankar, V., Miller, N., McGehee, M.D., Misner, M.J., Rye, D.Y., Russell, T.P., Drockenmuller, E., & Hawker, C.J. Fabrication of Densely-Packed, Well-Ordered, High-Aspect-Ratio Silicon Nanopillars Over Large Areas Using Block Copolymer Lithography. Thin Solid Films 513:1-2, 289-294 (2006)
Liu, Y., Scully, S.R., McGehee, M.D., Liu, J., Luscombe, C.K., Frechet, J.M.J., Shaheen, S.E., & Ginley, D.S. Dependence of Band Offset and Open Circuit Voltage on the Interfacial Interaction Between TiO₂ and Carboxylated Polythiophenes. J. Phys. Chem. B 110, 3257-61 (2006)
Goh, C., & McGehee, M.D. Organic Semiconductors for Low-Cost Solar Cells. The Bridge 35, 33-39 (2005)
Liu, Y., Summers, M.A., Edder, C., Frechet, J.M.J., & McGehee, M.D. Using Resonance Energy Transfer to Improve Exciton Harvesting in Organic-Inorganic Hybrid Photovoltaic Cells. Adv. Mater. 17, 2960-4 (2005)
Coakley, K.M., Srinivasan, B.S., Ziebarth, J.M., Goh, C., Liu, Y., & McGehee, M.D. Enhanced Hole Mobility in Regioregular Polythiophene Infiltrated in Straight Nanopores. Adv. Funct. Mater. 15, 1927-32 (2005)
Goh, C., Coakley, K.M., & McGehee, M.D. Nanostructuring Titania by Embossing with Polymer Molds Made from Anodic Alumina Templates. Nanoletters 5, 1545-9 (2005)
Coakley, K.M., Liu, Y., Goh, C. & McGehee, M.D. Ordered Organic-Inorganic Bulk Heterojunction Photovoltaic Cells. Mat. Res. Soc. Bul. 30, 37-40 (2005)
Coakley, K.M. & McGehee, M.D. Conjugated Polymer Photovoltaic Cells. Chem. Mat. 16, 4533-42 (2004)
Liu, J.S., Kadnikova, E.N., Liu, Y., McGehee, M.D. & Frechet, J.M.J. Polythiophene Containing Thermally Removable Solubilizing Groups Enhances the Interface and the Performance of Polymer-Titania Hybrid Solar Cells. J. Amer. Chem. Soc. 126, 9486-7 (2004)

Updated June 2007