Surprising Discovery at HZB Could Advance Hybrid Organic/Inorganic Solar Cells

Surprising Discovery at HZB Could Advance Hybrid Organic/Inorganic Solar Cells
An HZB team headed by Prof. Silke Christiansen has made a surprising discovery about hybrid organic/inorganic solar cells. Contrary to expectations, a diode composed of the conductive organic PEDOT:PSS and an n-type silicon absorber material behaves more like a pn junction between two semiconductors than like a metal-semiconductor contact (Schottky diode).