Patent ID: 8178384
Filing Date: 2012-05-15
Classification: B82Y,H01L,Y02E,Y02P

Abstract:
1. A method for making an active layer of an optoelectronic device, comprising: forming a nanostructured network layer, wherein the nanostructured network layer includes a network of regularly spaced structures with spaces between neighboring structures; disposing a network-filling material in one or more of the spaces, wherein at least one network-filling material has complementary charge transfer properties with respect to the material of the nanostructured network layer; disposing an interfacial layer between the nanostructured network layer and the network-filling material; and configuring the interfacial layer to enhance an efficiency of the resulting active layer includes configuring the interfacial layer such that charge-carriers traveling from the nanostructured network layer to the network-filling material are transported at a different rate than the same type of charge-carriers traveling from the network-filling material to the nanostructured network layer, charge-carriers traveling from the nanostructured network layer to the network-filling material are transported at a different rate than the same type of charge-carriers traveling from the network-filling material to the nanostructured network layer includes disposing a functionalized fullerene on surfaces of structures in the nanostructured network layer.