Active layer

Quantum mechanics

Voltage

Polymer solar cell

Engineering

Short circuit

Materials science

Layer (electronics)

Thin-film transistor

Hybrid solar cell

Telecommunications

Open-circuit voltage

Computer science

Buffer (optical fiber)

Physics

Quantum efficiency

Nanotechnology

Quantum dot solar cell

Solar cell

Heterojunction

Energy conversion efficiency

Quantum dot

Optoelectronics

Electrical engineering

RSC Advances

An inverted bulk-heterojunction hybrid solar cell with the structure ITO/ZnO/P3HT:PbS/Au was prepared. The device performance was enhanced by inserting an interface buffer layer of CdSe quantum dots between the ZnO and the P3HT:PbS BHJ active layer.

An inverted ZnO/P3HT:PbS bulk-heterojunction hybrid solar cell with a CdSe quantum dot interface buffer layer