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Band energy structure arrangement for organic solar cells with metalized deoxyribonucleic acid strands on anode electrode

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Deoxyribonucleic acids provide exciting opportunities as templates in self assembled architectures and functionality in terms of optical and electronic properties. In this study, we investigate the effects of metalized DNA sequences in organic bulk-heterojunction solar cells. These effects are characterized via optical, quantum efficiency and current-voltage measurements. We demonstrated that by arranging the band energy structure of the devices via placing metalized deoxyribonucleic acid sequences on the hole collection side of the active layer lead to a 20% increase in the power conversion efficiency.

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  1. Department of Electrical Engineering, University of California-Riverside, 92521, Riverside, CA, U.S.A.

    Ali Bilge Guvenc & Mihrimah Ozkan

  2. Department of Chemistry, University of California-Riverside, 92521, Riverside, CA, U.S.A.

    Shirui Guo

  3. Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of California-Riverside, Riverside, CA, U.S.A.

    Cengiz Ozkan

  4. Materials Science and Engineering Program, University of California-Riverside, Riverside, CA, U.S.A.

    Cengiz Ozkan

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Bilge Guvenc, A., Guo, S., Ozkan, C. et al. Band energy structure arrangement for organic solar cells with metalized deoxyribonucleic acid strands on anode electrode. MRS Online Proceedings Library 1323, 504 (2011). https://doi.org/10.1557/opl.2011.832

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