title: Hybrid solar cell on a carbon fiber.
abstract: In this work, a method to assemble nanoscale hybrid solar cells in the form of a brush of radially oriented CdS nanowire crystals around a single carbon fiber is demonstrated for the first time. A solar cell was assembled on a carbon fiber with a diameter of ~5-10 μm which served as a core electrode; inorganic CdS nanowire crystals and organic dye or polymer layers were successively deposited on the carbon fiber as active components resulting in a core-shell photovoltaic structure. Polymer, dye-sensitized, and inverted solar cells have been prepared and compared with their analogues made on the flat indium-tin oxide electrode.
authors.affiliation: V. Lashkaryov Institute of Semiconductor Physics, NAS of Ukraine, pr. Nauki 45, Kyiv, 03028, Ukraine.
authors.forename: Dmytro A
authors.initials: DA
authors.lastname: Grynko
authors.affiliation: V. Lashkaryov Institute of Semiconductor Physics, NAS of Ukraine, pr. Nauki 45, Kyiv, 03028, Ukraine.
authors.forename: Alexander N
authors.initials: AN
authors.lastname: Fedoryak
authors.affiliation: V. Lashkaryov Institute of Semiconductor Physics, NAS of Ukraine, pr. Nauki 45, Kyiv, 03028, Ukraine.
authors.forename: Petro S
authors.initials: PS
authors.lastname: Smertenko
authors.affiliation: V. Lashkaryov Institute of Semiconductor Physics, NAS of Ukraine, pr. Nauki 45, Kyiv, 03028, Ukraine. dimitr@isp.kiev.ua.
authors.forename: Oleg P
authors.initials: OP
authors.lastname: Dimitriev
authors.affiliation: Institute of Bioorganic Chemistry and Petrochemistry, NAS of Ukraine, 50 Kharkivske shose, Kyiv, 02160, Ukraine.
authors.forename: Nikolay A
authors.initials: NA
authors.lastname: Ogurtsov
authors.affiliation: Institute of Bioorganic Chemistry and Petrochemistry, NAS of Ukraine, 50 Kharkivske shose, Kyiv, 02160, Ukraine.
authors.forename: Alexander A
authors.initials: AA
authors.lastname: Pud
keywords: Carbon fiber; CdS nanowire; Flexible nanobrush; Hybrid solar cells