Speaker
Mr
George Bepete
(DST/NRF Centre of Excellence in Strong Materials and Molecular Sciences Institute, School of Chemistry, University of the Witwatersrand, Private Bag 3, Johannesburg 2050, South Africa)
Description
A novel photovoltaic device employing poly-3-hexylthiophene attached N-CNTs as active layer, giving Voc > 0.3V and Jsc ~ 1 mA/cm2, at 100 mW/cm2 white light illumination is presented. The polymer attached N-CNTs were produced by polymerizing 3-hexythiophene using FeCl3 catalyst in the presence of functionalized N-CNTs that had been synthesized by the floating catalyst CVD method.
Primary author
Mr
George Bepete
(DST/NRF Centre of Excellence in Strong Materials and Molecular Sciences Institute, School of Chemistry, University of the Witwatersrand, Private Bag 3, Johannesburg 2050, South Africa)
Co-authors
Mr
Messai A. Mamo
(DST/NRF Centre of Excellence in Strong Materials and Molecular Sciences Institute, School of Chemistry, University of the Witwatersrand, Private Bag 3, Johannesburg 2050, South Africa)
Prof.
Neil J. Coville
(DST/NRF Centre of Excellence in Strong Materials and Molecular Sciences Institute, School of Chemistry, University of the Witwatersrand, Private Bag 3, Johannesburg 2050, South Africa)
Dr
Zivayi Chiguvare
(DST/NRF Centre of Excellence in Strong Materials, School of Physics, University of the Witwatersrand, Private Bag 3, Johannesburg 2050, South Africa)
