Semiconductor Anisotropic Nanocomposites Obtained by Directly Coupling Conjugated Polymers with Quantum Rods
β Scribed by Lei Zhao; Dr. Xinchang Pang; Ramkrishna Adhikary; Prof. Jacob W. Petrich; Prof. Zhiqun Lin
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons
- Year
- 2011
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 366 KB
- Volume
- 50
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0044-8249
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β¦ Synopsis
Conjugated polymers (CPs) have received considerable attention as promising materials for use in organic photovoltaics, light-emitting diodes (LEDs), thin film transistors, and biosensors. [1] Among various types of CPs, poly(3hexylthiopene) (P3HT) is one of the most widely studied organic semiconductors. P3HT possesses excellent solution processability, environmental stability, high charge-carrier mobility, and tailorable electrochemical properties. [2] Owing to their quantum-confined nature, for quantum dots (QDs) such as cadmium selenide (CdSe), [3] variation of the nanocrystal size provides continuous and predictable changes in fluorescence emission, [4,5] thus rendering them useful for a wide range of applications in photovoltaic cells, [6,7] LEDs, [8] biosensors, [9] and bio-imaging. [9] CP-based organic/inorganic hybrid solar cells (e.g., CP/QD composites) are favorable alternatives to inorganic solar cells as they have many advantages peculiar to CPs, such as light weight, flexibility, processability, roll-to-roll production, low cost, and large area. However, the CP/QD composites are most often prepared by simply physically mixing the CPs and QDs. This procedure, however, suffers from several severe problems, including microscopic phase separation and the existence of insulating interfacial layers, [10] thereby reducing the interfacial area between CPs and QDs and thus limiting the performance of the resulting devices. Recently, various methods have been utilized to overcome these problems, such as the use of cosolvent mixtures [11] or binary solvent mixtures [12] and surface modification of QDs. [10,13,14] The most elegant approach is to chemically tether CPs on the QD surface (i.e., preparing CP-QD nanocomposites), hence enabling direct electronic coupling between CPs and QDs. [10,15] Notably, this strategy has only recently been developed and has been primarily implemented by ligand exchange, which permits the derivatization of the composite with a broad range of functional groups. [10] However, ligand-
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