Organic solar cells with carbon nanotube network electrodes
- 5 June 2006
- journal article
- research article
- Published by AIP Publishing in Applied Physics Letters
- Vol. 88 (23), 233506
- https://doi.org/10.1063/1.2209887
Abstract
We fabricated flexible transparent conducting electrodes by printing films of single-walled carbon nanotube (SWNT) networks on plastic and have demonstrated their use as transparent electrodes for efficient, flexible polymer-fullerene bulk-heterojunction solar cells. The printing method produces relatively smooth, homogeneous films with a transmittance of 85% at 550nm and a sheet resistance (Rs) of 200Ω∕◻. Cells were fabricated on the SWNT/plastic anodes identically to a process optimized for ITO/glass. Efficiencies, 2.5% (AM1.5G), are close to ITO/glass and are affected primarily by Rs. Bending test comparisons with ITO/plastic show the SWNT/plastic electrodes to be far more flexible.This publication has 14 references indexed in Scilit:
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