Carbon nanotubes for photovoltaics: from lab to industry

L Wieland, H Li, C Rust, J Chen… - Advanced Energy …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
The use of carbon nanotubes (CNTs) in photovoltaics could have significant ramifications on
the commercial solar cell market. Three interrelated research directions within the field are …

Charge transport in semiconducting carbon nanotube networks

NF Zorn, J Zaumseil - Applied Physics Reviews, 2021 - pubs.aip.org
Efficient and controlled charge transport in networks of semiconducting single-walled carbon
nanotubes is the basis for their application in electronic devices, especially in field-effect …

Excess polymer in single-walled carbon nanotube thin-film transistors: its removal prior to fabrication is unnecessary

B Mirka, NA Rice, P Williams, MN Tousignant… - ACS …, 2021 - ACS Publications
Ultrapure semiconducting single-walled carbon nanotube (sc-SWNT) dispersions produced
through conjugated polymer sorting are ideal candidates for the fabrication of solution …

[HTML][HTML] Carbon nanotubes in high-performance perovskite photovoltaics and other emerging optoelectronic applications

SN Habisreutinger, JL Blackburn - Journal of Applied Physics, 2021 - pubs.aip.org
In this perspective, we take a look back at the successful integration of carbon nanotubes
(CNT) into high-efficiency solar cells based on metal-halide perovskites (MHPs). In addition …

Impact of dielectric environment on trion emission from single-walled carbon nanotube networks

S Wieland, AA El Yumin, JM Gotthardt… - The Journal of …, 2023 - ACS Publications
Trions are charged excitons that form upon optical or electrical excitation of low-dimensional
semiconductors in the presence of charge carriers (holes or electrons). Trion emission from …

Conjugated wrapping polymer influences on photoexcitation of single-walled carbon nanotube-based thin film transistors

NJ Dallaire, B Mirka, JG Manion… - Journal of Materials …, 2023 - pubs.rsc.org
The fabrication of high-purity semiconducting single-walled carbon nanotubes (sc-SWNTs)
often utilizes conjugated polymers to isolate the semiconducting from the metallic species …

Chirality dependence of triplet excitons in (6, 5) and (7, 5) single-wall carbon nanotubes revealed by optically detected magnetic resonance

I Sudakov, E Goovaerts, W Wenseleers, JL Blackburn… - ACS …, 2023 - ACS Publications
The excitonic structure of single-wall carbon nanotubes (SWCNTs) is chirality dependent
and consists of multiple singlet and triplet excitons (TEs) of which only one singlet exciton …

Predicting the structure configuration and Raman analysis of caffeine molecules encapsulated into single-walled carbon nanotubes: Evidence for charge transfer

J Chenouf, M Boutahir, J Mejía-López, A Rahmani… - Solar Energy, 2022 - Elsevier
A new hybrid nano-system constituted of a single-walled carbon nanotube (SWNT) filled by
caffeine (Caff) molecule (s) is proposed as a potential candidate for organic solar cells. The …

Providing time to transfer: Longer lifetimes lead to improved energy transfer in films of semiconducting carbon nanotubes

JT Flach, J Wang, MS Arnold… - The journal of physical …, 2020 - ACS Publications
The performance of photovoltaic devices made using semiconducting carbon nanotubes is
limited by the transverse exciton diffusion length, which is ultimately set by intertube energy …

Charge transfer from photoexcited semiconducting single-walled carbon nanotubes to wide-bandgap wrapping polymer

Z Kuang, FJ Berger, JLP Lustres… - The Journal of …, 2021 - ACS Publications
As narrow optical bandgap materials, semiconducting single-walled carbon nanotubes
(SWCNTs) are rarely regarded as charge donors in photoinduced charge-transfer (PCT) …