Synergistic Concurrent Enhancement of Charge Generation, Dissociation, and Transport in Organic Solar Cells with Plasmonic Metal-Carbon Nanotube Hybrids

Plasmonic nanostructures are synthesized by decorating B‐ or N‐doped carbon nanotubes (CNTs) with Au nanoparticles. While the plasmonic nanoparticles promote exciton generation and dissociation, the B‐ and N‐doped CNTs enable charge‐selective transport enhancement in the organic active layer. Such concurrent enhancements of all the principal energy‐harvesting steps improve the device efficiency up to 9.98% for organic single‐junction solar cells.