Light harvesting tetrafullerene nanoarray for organic solar cells

Chem Commun (Camb). 2006 Feb 7:(5):514-6. doi: 10.1039/b510234k. Epub 2005 Dec 9.

Abstract

A light absorbing pi-conjugated oligomer-tetrafullerene nanoarray has been synthesized and its photophysical study reveals the presence of an intramolecular energy transfer. A phototovoltaic device fabricated from this nanoarray and poly(3-hexylthiophene) shows an external quantum efficiency of 15% at 500 nm.