title: Self-assembled, nanowire network electrodes for depleted bulk heterojunction solar cells.
abstract: Herein, a solution-processed, bottom-up-fabricated, nanowire network electrode is developed. This electrode features a ZnO template which is converted into locally connected, infiltratable, TiO2 nanowires. This new electrode is used to build a depleted bulk heterojunction solar cell employing hybrid-passivated colloidal quantum dots. The new electrode allows the application of a thicker, and thus more light-absorbing, colloidal quantum dot active layer, from which charge extraction of an efficiency comparable to that obtained from a thinner, planar device could be obtained.
authors.affiliation: Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
authors.forename: Xinzheng
authors.initials: X
authors.lastname: Lan
authors.forename: Jing
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Bai
authors.forename: Silvia
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Masala
authors.forename: Susanna M
authors.initials: SM
authors.lastname: Thon
authors.forename: Yuan
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Ren
authors.forename: Illan J
authors.initials: IJ
authors.lastname: Kramer
authors.forename: Sjoerd
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Hoogland
authors.forename: Arash
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Simchi
authors.forename: Ghada I
authors.initials: GI
authors.lastname: Koleilat
authors.forename: Daniel
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Paz-Soldan
authors.forename: Zhijun
authors.initials: Z
authors.lastname: Ning
authors.forename: André J
authors.initials: AJ
authors.lastname: Labelle
authors.forename: Jin Young
authors.initials: JY
authors.lastname: Kim
authors.forename: Ghassan
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Jabbour
authors.forename: Edward H
authors.initials: EH
authors.lastname: Sargent