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Hybrid materials for photovoltaics




The combination of nanocrystals and conjugated polymers is attractive for photovoltaics because they absorb sunlight in a complementary way. However, very few results, generally non-reproducible, followed the first promises of 2002. 

Published on 16 January 2009
A team at our laboratory in collaboration with INES obtained a series of cells with a satisfactory yield of 1% on average on 10 samples. These cells are moreover 10 times larger than those of the literature. This progress was made by working on a new solvent and on the implementation of the hybrid film.


Schematic representation of the dissociation and transport of photogenerated charges in photovoltaic conversion.

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