ZnO nanostructured materials for emerging solar cell applications

A Wibowo, MA Marsudi, MI Amal, MB Ananda… - RSC …, 2020 - pubs.rsc.org
Zinc oxide (ZnO) has been considered as one of the potential materials in solar cell
applications, owing to its relatively high conductivity, electron mobility, stability against photo …

Applications of ZnO in organic and hybrid solar cells

J Huang, Z Yin, Q Zheng - Energy & Environmental Science, 2011 - pubs.rsc.org
As an n-type inorganic semiconductor, ZnO has been widely used in organic solar cells
(OSCs) and hybrid solar cells (HSCs) due to its salient characteristics such as low cost, easy …

Effect of internal electric fields on charge carrier dynamics in a ferroelectric material for solar energy conversion

MR Morris, SR Pendlebury, J Hong… - Advanced …, 2016 - openresearch.lsbu.ac.uk
Spontaneous polarization is shown to enhance the lifetimes of photogenerated species in
BaTiO3. This is attributed to polarization‐induced surface band bending acting as a thermal …

Directed assembly of hybrid nanomaterials and nanocomposites

S Zhang, CI Pelligra, X Feng, CO Osuji - Advanced Materials, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Hybrid nanomaterials are molecular or colloidal‐level combinations of organic and
inorganic materials, or otherwise strongly dissimilar materials. They are often, though not …

Multifunctional nanostructured materials for next generation photovoltaics

C Wu, K Wang, M Batmunkh, ASR Bati, D Yang… - Nano Energy, 2020 - Elsevier
Next generation photovoltaics such as dye sensitized solar cells, perovskite solar cells and
organic solar cells, generally referred to as the “third-generation photovoltaic technologies” …

ZnO nanowires for solar cells: A comprehensive review

V Consonni, J Briscoe, E Kärber, X Li… - Nanotechnology, 2019 - iopscience.iop.org
As an abundant and non-toxic wide band gap semiconductor with a high electron mobility,
ZnO in the form of nanowires (NWs) has emerged as an important electron transporting …

Hybrid organic/inorganic nanocomposites for photovoltaic cells

R Liu - Materials, 2014 - mdpi.com
Inorganic/organic hybrid solar cells have attracted a lot of interest due to their potential in
combining the advantages of both components. To understand the key issues in association …

Mechanically and chemically robust sandwich-structured C@ Si@ C nanotube array Li-ion battery anodes

J Liu, N Li, MD Goodman, HG Zhang, ES Epstein… - ACS …, 2015 - ACS Publications
Stability and high energy densities are essential qualities for emerging battery electrodes.
Because of its high specific capacity, silicon has been considered a promising anode …

ZnO anchored graphene hydrophobic nanocomposite-based bulk heterojunction solar cells showing enhanced short-circuit current

R Sharma, F Alam, AK Sharma, V Dutta… - Journal of Materials …, 2014 - pubs.rsc.org
Hydrophobic and surfactant-free ZnO nanoparticles and ZnO decorated graphene
nanocomposite (Z@ G) with narrow and uniform size distribution were synthesized by a time …

Novel planar heterostructure perovskite solar cells with CdS nanorods array as electron transport layer

Z Gu, F Chen, X Zhang, Y Liu, C Fan, G Wu, H Li… - Solar Energy Materials …, 2015 - Elsevier
Hybrid organic–inorganic solar cells with planar heterostructure based on hydrothermal-
synthesized CdS nanorods (CdS NRs) array and organometal trihalide perovskite CH 3 NH …