title: Synergistic concurrent enhancement of charge generation, dissociation, and transport in organic solar cells with plasmonic metal-carbon nanotube hybrids.
abstract: Plasmonic nanostructures are synthesized by decorating B- or N-doped carbon nanotubes (CNTs) with Au nanoparticles. While the plasmonic nanoparticles promote exciton generation and dissociation, the B- and N-doped CNTs enable charge-selective transport enhancement in the organic active layer. Such concurrent enhancements of all the principal energy-harvesting steps improve the device efficiency up to 9.98% for organic single-junction solar cells.
authors.affiliation: Center for Nanomaterials and Chemical Reactions, Institute for Basic Science (IBS) & Department of Materials Science and Engineering, KAIST, Daejeon, 305-701, Republic of Korea.
authors.forename: Ju Min
authors.initials: JM
authors.lastname: Lee
authors.forename: Joonwon
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Lim
authors.forename: Nayeun
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Lee
authors.forename: Hyung Il
authors.initials: HI
authors.lastname: Park
authors.forename: Kyung Eun
authors.initials: KE
authors.lastname: Lee
authors.forename: Taewoo
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Jeon
authors.forename: Soo Ah
authors.initials: SA
authors.lastname: Nam
authors.forename: Jehan
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Kim
authors.forename: Jonghwa
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Shin
authors.forename: Sang Ouk
authors.initials: SO
authors.lastname: Kim
keywords: carbon nanotubes; nanoparticles; organic solar cells; plasmons