Results and Publications

Research Areas & Activities Solar Energy Design and Fabrication of the First All-Carbon-Based Solar Cell Upconverting Electrodes for Improved Solar Energy Conversion Advanced Electron Transport Materials for Application in Organic Photovoltaics (OPV) Ultra-High Efficiency Thermophotovoltaic Solar Cells Using Metallic Photonic Crystals as Intermediate Absorber and Emitter Nanostructured Materials for High-Efficiency Thin Film Solar Cells Photon Enhanced Thermionic Emission (PETE) for Solar Concentrator Systems Hot Carrier Solar Cell: Implementation of the Ultimate Photovoltaic Converter Plasmonic Photovoltaics Self-sorting of Metallic Carbon Nanotubes for High Performance Large Area Low Cost Transparent Electrodes Artificial Photosynthesis: Membrane-Supported Assemblies that Use Sunlight to Split Water Lateral Nanoconcentrator Nanowire Multijunction Photovoltaic Cells Molecular Solar Cells Advanced Materials and Devices for Low-Cost and High-Performance Organic Photovoltaic Cells Inorganic Nanocomposite Solar Cells by ALD Nanostructured Silicon-Based Tandem Solar Cells Photosynthetic Bioelectricity Nanostructured Metal-Organic Composite Solar Cells Ordered Bulk Heterojunction Photovoltaic Cells Biomass Energy Hydrogen Advanced Combustion CO₂ Capture CO₂ Storage Advanced Materials & Catalysts Advanced Coal Advanced Transportation Advanced Electric Grid Grid Storage Other Renewables Integrated Assessment Advanced Nuclear Energy Geoengineering Exploratory Efforts All Activities Analysis Activities Technical Reports

Research

Advanced Materials and Devices for Low-Cost and High-Performance Organic Photovoltaic Cells

Start Date: January 2006
Status: Completed

Investigators

Zhenan Bao, Department of Chemical Engineering, Michael D. McGehee, Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Stanford University

Annual Reports

Publications

“Photoelectrochemical hydrogen evolution from VLS-grown Pt-coated p-Si and pn-Si wafers and microwire arrays.” J. Am. Chem. Soc. (in preparation, 2010).
Becerril, H. E., N. Miyaki, M. L.Tang, R. Mondal, Y-S. Sun, A. C. Mayer, J. E. Parmer, M. D. McGehee and Z. Bao. “Transistor and solar cell performance of donor–acceptor low bandgap copolymers bearing an acenaphtho[1,2-b]thieno[3,4-e]pyrazine (ACTP) motif.” J. Mater. Chem., Vol. 19, pp. 591-593, doi:10.1039/b819210c (2009).
Tang, M. L., A. D. Reichardt, P. Wei, and Z. Bao. “Correlating carrier type with frontier molecular orbital energy levels in organic thin film transistors of functionalized acene derivatives.” American Chemical Society, Vol. 131, No. 14, pp. 5264-5273, doi:10.1021/ja809659b (2009)
Tang, M. L., J. H. Oh, A. D. Reichardt, and Z. Bao. “Chlorination: A general route toward electron transport in organic semiconductors.” American Chemical Society, Vol. 131, No. 10, pp. 3733-3740, doi:10.1021/ja809045s (2009).
Tang, M. L., S. C. B. Mannsfeld, Y-S. Sun, H. A. Becerril, and Z. Bao. “Pentaceno[2,3-b]thiophene, a hexacene analogue for organic thin film transistors.” American Chemical Society, 131, No. 3, pp. 882-883, doi:10.1021/ja808142c (2009).
Mondal, R., N. Miyaki, H. A. Becerril, J. Parmer, A. Mayer, M. L. Tang, M. McGehee, and Z. Bao. Chem. Mater. (submitted, 2009).
Tang, M., A. Reichardt, N. Miyaki, R. M. Stoltenberg, and Z. Bao. “Ambipolar, high performance, acene-based organic thin film transistors.” American Chemical Society, Vol. 130, No. 19, 6064-6065, doi:10.1021/ja8005918 (2008).
Tang, M., A. Reichardt, T. Siegrist, S. C. B. Mannsfeld, and Z. Bao. “Trialkylsilylethynyl-functionalized tetraceno[2,3-b]thiophene and anthra[2,3-b]thiophene organic transistors.” Chem. Mater. Vol. 20, No. 14, pp. 4669-4676, doi:10.1021/cm800644y (2008).
Okamoto, T., Y. Jiang, F. Qiu, A. C. Mayer, J. E. Parmer, M. D. McGehee, and Z. Bao. “Synthesis and characterization of pentacene- and anthradithiophene-fluorene conjugated copolymers synthesized by Suzuki reactions.” Macromolecules, Vol. 41, No. 19, pp. 6977-6978, doi:10.1021/ja0725403 (2008).
Tang, M., A. Reichardt, and Z. Bao. “Functionalized asymmetric linear acenes for high performance organic semiconductors.” Advanced Functional Materials, Vol. 18, No. 10, pp. 1579-1585, doi:10.1002/adfm.200701529 (2008).
Parmer, J. E., A. C. Mayer, B. E. Hardin, S. R. Scully, M. D. McGehee, and I. McCulloch. “Organic bulk heterojunction solar cells using poly(2,5-bis(3-tetradecyllthiophen-2-yl)thieno[3,2,-b]thiophene).” Applied Physics Letters, Vol. 92, No. 11, pp. 113309, doi:10.1063/1.2899996 (2008).
A.C. Mayer, S.R. Scully, B.E. Hardin, M.W. Rowell, M.D. McGehee, Materials Today, 10 (2007) p. 28-33.
S.R. Scully, P. B. Armstrong, C. Edder, J.M.J. Frechet, and M.D. McGehee, Advanced Materials 19 (2007) p. 2961-6.
S. R. Scully, M. D. McGehee. Effects of optical interference and energy transfer on exciton diffusion length measurements in organic semiconductors. J. Appl. Phys. 100, 034907 (2006)
T. Okamoto, M.L. Senatore, M.M. Ling, A.B. Mallik, M.L. Tang, Z. Bao, Adv. Mater. 19, 3381-3384, 2007.
T. Okamoto, Z. Bao, J. Am. Chem. Soc. 129, 10308-0309, 2007.
S. Sista, Y. Yao, Y. Yang, M.L. Tang, Z. Bao, Appl. Phys. Lett. 91, 223508, 2007.
J.E. Parmer, A.C. Mayer, B.E. Hardin, S.R. Scully, M.D. McGehee, M. Heeney, I. McCulloch, Applied Physics Letters 92 (2008) p. 113309-1-3.
A.C. Mayer, S.R. Scully, B.E. Hardin, M.W. Rowell, M.D. McGehee, Materials Today, 10 (2007) p. 28-33.
S.R. Scully, P. B. Armstrong, C. Edder, J.M.J. Frechet, and M.D. McGehee, Advanced Materials 19 (2007) p. 2961-6.
S. R. Scully, M. D. McGehee. Effects of optical interference and energy transfer on exciton diffusion length measurements in organic semiconductors. J. Appl. Phys. 100, 034907 (2006)

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