Sasmita Nayak
UIC
Recent investigations involving nanoscale energy conversion using conducting polymers have recently attracted enormous attention in photovoltaic research, due to their unique potentials including high throughput, solution phase processing, which will lead to low cost electricity production. The hybrid inorganic-organic solar cell devices are designed by interfacing n-type ZnO layers with (Poly(3-hexylthiophene-2,5-diyl) P3HT) as p-type semiconductor as well as donor molecules with poly(3,4-ethylenedioxythiophene):polystyrene sulfonate (PEDOT:PSS) as the hole transporting layer. The photovoltaic cell produced here are characterized via Raman, photoluminescence, Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy and X-ray diffraction analysis. The devices show excellent photovoltaic performance under AM 1.5G illumination.