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COLLOIDAL QUANTUM DOT PHOTOVOLTAICS

A bridge for charge carriers

Obtaining simultaneously high power conversion efficiency and long-term stability in organic blend/quantum dot solar cells is considered a tough challenge. Now, realization of a hybrid architecture that exploits the addition of a small molecule brings researchers a step closer to overcoming it.

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Fig. 1: The bridge effect of small molecules in hybrid colloidal QD/polymer solar cells.

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Benetti, D., Rosei, F. A bridge for charge carriers. Nat Energy 4, 910–911 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41560-019-0499-7

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