"Bulk heterojunction solar cells with internal quantum efficiency approaching 100%," by Sung Heum Park and 9 others, Nature Photonics, 3(5): 297-302, May 2009.

[Authors' affiliations: University of California, Santa Barbara; Gwangju Institute of Science and Technology, South Korea; University of Laval, Quebec City, Quebec, Canada]

Abstract: "We report the fabrication and measurement of solar cells with 6% power conversion efficiency using the alternating co-polymer, poly[N-9 ''-hepta-decanyl-2,7-carbazole-alt-5,5-(4',7'-di-2-thienyl-2',1',3'-benzothiadiazole) (PCDTBT) in bulk heterojunction composites with the fullerene derivative [6,6]-phenyl C-70-butyric acid methyl ester (PC70BM). The PCDTBT/PC70BM solar cells exhibit the best performance of any bulk heterojunction system studied to date, with J(SC) = 10.6 mA cm(-2), V-OC = 0.88 V, FF = 0.66 and eta(e) = 6.1% under air mass 1.5 global (AM 1.5 G) irradiation of 100 mW cm(-2). The internal quantum efficiency is close to 100%, implying that essentially every absorbed photon results in a separated pair of charge carriers and that all photogenerated carriers are collected at the electrodes."

This 2009 report from Nature Photonics was cited 65 times in current journal articles indexed by Clarivate during November-December 2010. During that two-month period, the report was the fifth-most-cited paper in physics published in the last two years, aside from reviews. Prior to the most recent bimonthly tally, citations to the paper have accrued as follows:

September-October 2010: 56 citations
July-August 2010: 47
May-June 2010: 59
March-April 2010: 75
January-February 2010: 34
November-December 2009: 36
September-October 2009: 19
July-August 2009: 8
May-June 2009: 1

Total citations to date: 400

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