Knowledge Transfer Involving HQP

Metal Oxide/Organic Hybrid Solar Cells

Journal Publications

  • Arthur D Hendsbee, Jon-Paul Sun, Theresa M. McCormick, Ian G. Hill, and Gregory C Welch, “Unusual loss of electron mobility upon furan for thiophene substitution in a molecular semiconductor”, Organic Electronics, 18, 118 (2015) doi:10.1016/j.orgel.2014.12.033.
  • Fei Dou, Ester Buchaca-Domingo, Maciej Sakowicz, Elham Rezasoltani, Thomas McCarthy-Ward, Martin Heeney, Xinping Zhang, Natalie Stingelin and Carlos Silva, ‘The effect of phase morphology on the nature of long-lived charges in semiconductor polymer:fullerene systems’, J. Mat. Chem. C. 3, 3722-3729 (2015). DOI: 10.1039/C4TC02637C
  • Philipp Ehrenreich, Thomas Pfadler, Francis Paquin, Laura-Isabelle Dion-Bertrand, Olivier Paré-Labrosse, Carlos Silva, Jonas Weickert, and Lukas Schmidt-Mende, “Role of charge separation mechanism and local disorder at hybrid solar cell interfaces”, Phys. Rev. B 91, 035304 (2015) http://dx.doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevB.91.035304
  • Ala’a F. Eftaiha, Jon-Paul Sun, Ian G. Hill and Gregory C. Welch, “Recent advances of non-fullerene small molecular acceptors for solution processed bulk heterojunction solar cells”, J. Mat Chem A 2, 1201 (2014)
  • Ala’a F. Eftaiha, Jon-Paul Sun, Arthur D. Hendsbee, Casper Macaulay, Gregory C. Welch and Ian G. Hill, “High Open Circuit Voltage Photovoltaic Devices Made of Poly(3-Hexylthiophene) and Phthalimide-Thiophene Based Molecular Acceptor”, Canadian Journal of Chemistry (2014). dx.doi.org/10.1139/cjc-2014-0099
  • Douglas B. Staple, Patricia A. K. Oliver and Ian G. Hill, “Derivation of the open-circuit voltage of organic solar cells”, Physical Review B 89, 205313 (2014)
  • Elham Rezasoltani, Mingqing Wang, Ian G. Hill and Carlos Silva, “The influence of molecular interface modification on the charge dynamics of polymeric semiconductor:ZnO heterostructures”, Journal of Applied Physics 116, 074502 (2014). dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.4893361
  • S. M. McAfee, J.M. Topple, A. Payne, J.P. Sun, I.G. Hill, G.C. Welch, “An Electron Deficient Small Molecule Accessible from Sustainable Synthesis and Building Blocks for use as a Fullerene Alternative in Organic Photovoltaics”, ChemPhysChem, (2014) dx.doi.org/10.1002/cphc.201402662
  • Arthur D. Hendsbee, Jon-Paul Sun, Lesley R. Rutledge, Ian G. Hill and Gregory C. Welch, “Electron deficient diketopyrrolopyrrole dyes for organic electronics: synthesis by direct arylation, optoelectronic characterization, and charge carrier mobility”, J. Mat Chem A 2, 4198, (2014).
  • Jon-Paul Sun, Arthur D. Hendsbee, Ala’a F. Eftaiha, Casper Macaulay, Lesley R. Rutledge, Gregory C. Welch and Ian G. Hill, “Phthalimide–thiophene-based conjugated organic small molecules with high electron mobility”, J. Mat. Chem C, (2014). dx.doi.org/10.1039/C3TC32497D
  • H. Anwar, A. George, and I.G. Hill, “Vertically-aligned carbon nanotube counter electrodes for dye-sensitized solar cells”, Solar Energy 88, 129, Feb 2013.
  • K-C Liao, H. Anwar, I.G. Hill, J. Schwartz, “Comparative interface metrics for metal-free monolayer-based dye sensitized solar cells”, ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces 4, 6734, Dec 2012.
  • M. Wang, J-P Sun, S. Suei, and I.G. Hill, “Optimizing the photovoltage of polymer/zinc oxide hybrid solar cells by calcium doping”, Journal of Applied Physics 112, 044511, August 2012.
  • “Fluorinated alkyl phosphonic acid SAMs replace PEDOT:PSS in polymer semiconductor devices”, Mingqing Wang, Ian G. Hill, Organic Electronics, vol 13, pg 498.

Journal Publications (In Preparation)

  • O. Pare-Labrosse, Y. Alattar, M. Wang, I.G. Hill and C. Silva, Improving exciton dissociation and polaron lifetimes at hybrid ZnO/P3HT interfaces (in preparation).
  • M. Wang and I.G. Hill, Modifying the electron affinity of ZnO to optimize performance of hybrid solar cells (in preparation).

Manuscripts (In Preparation)

  • Clegg, Welch and Hill, “Non-fullerene electron transport layers for perovskite solar cells”
  • McAfee, Topple, Hill and Welch, “Key components to the recent performance increases of solution processed non-fullerene small molecule acceptors”
  • Namespetra, Welch and Hill, “Low-cost, sustainable, hole-transport materials for perovskite solar cells
  • Rezasoltani, Stingelin, Silva, “Multidimensional coherent spectroscopy of red-phase MEH-PPV gels at low temperature.
  • Rezasoltani, Hill, Silva, “Multidimensional coherent spectroscopy of polymer-ZnO nanoparticle blends”

Presentations (Invited)

  • Ian Hill, “Earth-Abundant Materials for Solar Energy Harvesting: Hybrid Organic/Inorganic Solar Cells” at the 2013 MRS Fall Meeting in Boston, MA (December 2013).
  • Ian Hill, Yousef Alattar, Mingqing Wang, Hafeez Anwar, Elham Rezasoltani and Carlos Silva, “Interface engineering in hybrid and dye sensitized solar cells” in Kyoto, Japan. JSAP-MRS joint symposium. September 19, 2013.

Presentations (Oral)

  • Brendan Brady and Ian Hill, “Vapour-deposited TiO2 layers for electron-selective contacts”, to be presented at CUPC 2013, Hamilton, Ontario.
  • Ian Hill will be giving an invited talk at the 2013 MRS Fall Meeting in Boston, MA (December 2013).
  • Carlos Silva, Elham Rezasoltani, Yousef Alattar and Ian Hill, “Optical coherence of photoexcitations in polymeric and hybrid solar cells”, European Conference on Molecular Electronics 2013, London, UK, September 2013.
  • Ian Hill, Yousef Alattar, Mingqing Wang, Hafeez Anwar, Elham Rezasoltani and Carlos Silva, “Interface engineering in hybrid and dye sensitized solar cells” in Kyoto, Japan. JSAP-MRS joint symposium. September 19, 2013.
  • H. Anwar and I. Hill, “Precious-Metal Free Dye Sensitized Solar Cells”, Presented at Next Generation Solar 2012 – Photovoltaics Canada, Montreal, QC, May 2012.
  • M. Wang and I. Hill, “Effect of Interfacial Modification on Photovoltaic Properties on Hybrid Solar Cells” Presented at Next Generation Solar 2012 – Photovoltaics Canada, Montreal, QC, May 2012.
  • “Sol-gel Prepared Ca Doped ZnO and Its Application in Polymer–Oxide Bilayer Hybrid Solar Cells”, Mingqing Wang (presenter) and Ian G Hill, AVS International Symposium, Nashville TN, Oct. 2011.

Presentations (Poster)

  • Elham Rezasoltani presented a poster at the 2013 MRS Fall Meeting in Boston, MA (December 2013).
  • MRS Fall meeting, Dec 1-6 2013, “Ultrafast characterization of hybrid inorganic-organic optical microcavities”, poster given by Eleonora Vella.
  • Next Generation Solar 2013 in Hamilton, Ontario (May7-10) “The influence of molecular interfaces modification on charge generation and recombination of hybrid P3HT:ZnO solar cells”, poster given by Elham Rezasoltani.