Beilstein J. Nanotechnol.2016,7, 1486–1491, doi:10.3762/bjnano.7.141
aligned parallel to the surface. The recently developed process of dryshearaligning – in which shear force is applied to the surface of carbon nanotube thin films in the dry state, has been shown to yield nanotube films that are very flat and in which the surface nanotubes are very well aligned in the
direction of shear. It is thus reasonable to expect that nanotube films subjected to dryshearaligning should outperform otherwise identical films formed by other processes. In this work, the fabrication and characterisation of carbon nanotube–silicon solar cells using such films is reported, and the
photovoltaic performance of devices produced with and without dryshearaligning is compared.
Keywords: absorbance; carbon nanotubes; current-voltage; dryshearaligning; order parameter; Introduction
During the last decade or so, the potential benefits of using carbon nanotubes in solar cells has been
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Figure 1:
Effect of dry shear aligning (DSA) on film morphology. a) and b) show SEM images of thin films prod...