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Well-aligned Vertically Oriented ZnO Nanorod Arrays and their Application in Inverted Small Molecule Solar Cells
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Large area vertical alignment of ZnO nanowires in semiconducting polymer thin films directed by magnetic fields
Candice I Pelligra1, Pawel W Majewski, Chinedum O Osuji
1Yale University, Department of Chemical and Environmental Engineering, 9 Hillhouse Avenue, New Haven, CT 0651. chinedum.osuji@yale.edu.
Nanoscale
|September 24, 2013
Abstract:
We demonstrate the use of magnetic fields for the directed assembly of ZnO nanowires in semiconducting polymer films suitable for ordered bulk heterojunction photovoltaics. Using rotational field annealing, Co-doped ZnO nanowires with negative paramagnetic anisotropy were successfully aligned out-of-plane with respect to the substrate and polymer film.

