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The Nature of Record Efficiency Fluid-Processed Nanotube-Silicon Heterojunctions

April 20, 2015
Author(s)
Jeffrey A. Fagan, Erik K. Hobbie, John M. Harris, Matthew R. Semler
The dark transport characteristics of heterojunctions assembled from type, chirality and length-purified single-wall carbon nanotubes (SWCNTs) are used to clarify the nature of nanotube-silicon diodes and solar cells. The freestanding films show remarkable

Direct correlation of charge transfer absorption with molecular donor:acceptor interfacial area via photothermal deflection spectroscopy

April 9, 2015
Author(s)
Lee J. Richter, Dean M. DeLongchamp, Natalie Stingelin, Alberto Salleo, Martin Heeney, Aram Amassian, John deMello, James Bannock, Fiona H. Scholes, Scott Watkins, Zhuping Fei, Koen Vandewal
ABSTRACT: Here, we show that the Charge Transfer (CT) absorption signal in bulk (BHJ) solar cell blends, measured by photothermal deflection spectroscopy (PDS), is directly proportional to the density of molecular donor/acceptor interfaces. Since the

Design Challenges of the NIST Net Zero Energy Residential Test Facility

March 26, 2015
Author(s)
Betsy Pettit, Cathy Gates, Arthur H. Fanney, William M. Healy
Homeowners and builders have increasingly strived to build low energy use and environmentally friendly homes. As materials and equipment have improved, energy reduction as a goal has increasingly been replaced with the goal of net-zero energy use. But the

Monitoring Techniques for the Net-Zero Energy Residential Test Facility

December 31, 2014
Author(s)
Mark W. Davis, William M. Healy, Matthew Boyd, Lisa Ng, William V. Payne, Harrison Skye, Tania Ullah
NIST has constructed a Net-Zero Energy Residential Test Facility that will be used as a testbed for investigating the measurement science related to systems, components, and operations that will lead to homes that generate as much energy over a course of a

Challenges of Irradiance-mode Spectral Response Measurements

October 16, 2014
Author(s)
Behrang H. Hamadani, John F. Roller, Brian P. Dougherty, Howard W. Yoon
Irradiance-mode spectral response measurements of solar cells are important because they provide a direct, reliable and accurate route for determination of the short circuit current (Isc) of solar cells under air mass 1.5 standard reference spectrum. In

Nanoscale Imaging of Photocurrent and Efficiency in CdTe Solar Cells

October 15, 2014
Author(s)
Leite Marina, maxim abashin, Henri Lezec, anthony gianfrancesco, Alec Talin, Nikolai Zhitenev
The local collection characteristics of grain interiors and grain boundaries in thin film CdTe polycrystalline solar cells are investigated using scanning photocurrent microscopy. The carriers are locally generated by light injected through a small

Ultrafast THz photoconductivity of photovoltaic polymer-fullerene blends: a comparative study correlated with photovoltaic device performance

October 10, 2014
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Edwin J. Heilweil, Jin Zuanming, Dominik Gehrig, Clare Dyer-Smith, Frederic Laquai, Mischa Bonn, Dmitry Turchinovich
Ultrafast photo-induced carrier dynamics in prototypical low band-gap polymer:fullerene photovoltaic blend films PTB7:PC70BM and P3HT:PC70BM is investigated using ultrafast terahertz (THz) spectroscopy. The sub-picosecond (ps) and few-ps decays of THz
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