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Luminscent Graphene Quantum Dots for Organic Photovoltaic Devices
journal contribution
posted on 2011-07-06, 00:00 authored by Vinay Gupta, Neeraj Chaudhary, Ritu Srivastava, Gauri Datt Sharma, Ramil Bhardwaj, Suresh ChandRecent research in organic photovoltaic (OPV) is largely focused on developing low cost OPV materials such as graphene. However, graphene sheets (GSs) blended conjugated polymers are known to show inferior OPV characteristics as compared to fullerene adduct blended with conjugated polymer. Here, we demonstrate that graphene quantum dots blended with regioregular poly(3-hexylthiophene-2,5-diyl) or poly(2-methoxy-5-(2-ethylhexyloxy)-1,4phenylenevinylene) polymer results in a significant improvement in the OPV characteristics as compared to GSs blended conjugated polymers. This work has implications for inexpensive and efficient solar cells as well as organic light emitting diodes.