NANO-ARCHITECTED/ASSEMBLED SOLAR ELECTRICITY CELL
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Abstract
Nano-architected/assembled solar cells and methods for their manufacture are disclosed. The solar cells comprise oriented arrays of nanostructures wherein two or more different materials are regularly arrayed and wherein the presence of two different materials alternates. The two or more materials have different electron affinities. The two materials may be in the form of matrixed arrays of nanostructures. The presence of the two different materials may alternate within distances of between about 1 nm and about 100 nm. An orientation can be imposed on the array, e.g. through solution deposition surfactant temptation or other methods.
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47 Claims
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3. A solar cell device, comprising:
- two or more materials having different electron affinities, the solar cell device being characterized by an architecture wherein the two or more materials are regularly arrayed and wherein the presence of the two or more materials alternates within distances of between about 1 nm and about 100 nm, wherein the architecture is characterized by a mesoporous template having a conducting or semiconducting inorganic media containing pores, wherein the pores are filled with a conducting or semiconducting polymer material having a different electron affinity than the surrounding conducting or semiconducting inorganic media.
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8. A solar cell device, comprising:
- two or more materials having different electron affinities, the solar cell device being characterized by an architecture wherein the two or more materials are regularly arrayed and wherein the presence of the two or more materials alternates within distances of between about 1 nm and about 100 nm, wherein the two or more materials include C60 and a conducting or semiconducting polymer material.
- 9. A solar cell comprising one or more regularly structured nanoscale arrays of nanostructures embedded within a matrix of conducting or semiconducting inorganic media, wherein the nanostructures have a different electron affinity than the conducting or semiconducting inorganic media, wherein the arrays of nanostructures embedded within the matrix are characterized by an architecture with a mesoporous template made of a conducting or semiconducting inorganic media containing pores, wherein the pores are filled with conducting or semiconducting polymer materials, wherein the conducting or semiconducting polymer materials have a different electron affinity than the surrounding inorganic conducting or semiconducting media.
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27. A method for making solar cells, comprising:
- imposing an orientation on an array of two or more materials having different electron affinities, such that the two or more materials are regularly arrayed and the presence of the two or more materials alternates within distances of between about 1 nm and about 100 nm, wherein the two or more materials are characterized by an architecture with a mesoporous template having a conducting or semiconducting inorganic media containing pores, wherein the pores are filled with a conducting or semiconducting polymer material having a different electron affinity than the surrounding conducting or semiconducting inorganic media.
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