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 …

Synthesis of N, S-doped carbon quantum dots for use in organic solar cells as the ZnO modifier to eliminate the light-soaking effect

Y Wang, L Yan, G Ji, C Wang, H Gu, Q Luo… - … applied materials & …, 2018 - ACS Publications
Zinc oxide (ZnO) is one of the most extensively used electron-transporting layers (ETLs) in
organic solar cells. However, owing to numerous surface defects and mismatched energy …

Solution‐Processable Zinc Oxide for Printed Photovoltaics: Progress, Challenges, and Prospect

Y Han, J Guo, Q Luo, CQ Ma - Advanced Energy and …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Zinc oxide (ZnO) is a promising candidate as the electron‐transporting layer of roll‐to‐roll
printed organic and perovskite solar cells (OSCs and PVSCs) because it is low cost …

Development of highly luminescent water-insoluble carbon dots by using calix [4] pyrrole as the carbon precursor and their potential application in organic solar cells

Y Coşkun, FY Ünlü, T Yılmaz, Y Türker… - ACS …, 2022 - ACS Publications
Carbon dots (CDs) are carbon-based fluorescent nanomaterials that are of interest in
different research areas due to their low cost production and low toxicity. Considering their …

Light-soaking free organic photovoltaic devices with sol–gel deposited ZnO and AZO electron transport layers

Z Jiang, S Soltanian, B Gholamkhass, A Aljaafari… - RSC …, 2018 - pubs.rsc.org
This paper investigates light-soaking effects in inverted organic photovoltaic (OPV) devices
with zinc oxide (ZnO) and aluminum doped ZnO (AZO) electron transport layers (ETL), which …

Zinc oxide coated carbon dot nanoparticles as electron transport layer for inverted polymer solar cells

W Zhao, L Yan, H Gu, Z Li, Y Wang, Q Luo… - ACS Applied Energy …, 2020 - ACS Publications
Interface engineering is a powerful tool to improve the performance of polymer solar cells
(PSCs), and zinc oxide (ZnO) is a significant interfacial material for PSCs. However, ZnO is …

Adsorptive potential of ZnO/SiO2 nanorods prepared via the sol–gel method for the removal of Pb(II) and Cd(II) from petroleum refinery wastewater

EY Shaba, JO Tijani, JO Jacob… - Journal of Chemical …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
BACKGROUND The adsorption technique is considered one of the most effective and
economical methods for the removal of heavy metals, due to its excellent advantages of low …

The effect of processing solvent dependent film aggregation on the photovoltaic performance of squaraine: PC71BM bulk heterojunction solar cells

G Chen, C Si, P Zhang, B Wei, J Zhang, Z Hong… - Organic …, 2017 - Elsevier
In this work, we systemically investigated the processing solvent-dependent aggregation
behavior of a squaraine dye, 2, 4-bis [4-(N, N-dibutylamino)-2, 6-dihydroxyphenyl] squaraine …

Synthesis of boron-doped CQDs and its use as an additive in P3HT: PCBM layer for efficiency improvement of organic solar cell

ÇK Kurukavak, T Yılmaz, Ş Çetin, MM Alqadasi… - Microelectronic …, 2021 - Elsevier
This study reports the synthesis of boron-doped CQDs (B-CQDs) and the using as a novel
additive for organic solar cells. we introduced B-CQDs P3HT: PCBM bulk heterojunction …

Simultaneous UV and air stability improvement of organic solar cells enabled by carbon-coated zinc oxide as cathode buffer layer

L Yan, Y Wang, W Zhao, H Zha, H Song, H Hao… - Cell Reports Physical …, 2023 - cell.com
Summary Zinc oxide nanoparticles (ZnO NPs) are ideal electron transport materials for
current high-efficiency organic solar cells (OSCs), but they still face several challenges due …