Self-Passivating Hybrid (organic/inorganic) Tandem Solar Cell

EE faculty are developing nanostructured solar cells that exploit Multiple Exciton Generation (MEG) in nanocrystal quantum dots. The image shows the device structure schematic on the left and the actual micrograph of the fabricated structure.

Solar Cell and MEG image

This work was recently published in Solar Energy Materials and Solar Cells (vol. 93, pp. 657-661, May 2009).