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BACKGROUND TO THE INVENTION [0002] Over recent years, the field of optoelectronic devices has developed rapidly, generating new and improved 10 devices that go some way to meeting the ever increasing global demand for low-carbon emissions. However, this demand cannot be met with the devices currently available. The issues with the currently-available technology are illustrated below, using the area of photovoltaic devices. [0003] The leading emerging technologies pushing to realise the ultimate goal of low cost solar power generation are dye-sensitized and organic photovoltaics. Dye-sensitized solar cells are composed of a mesoporous n-type metal oxide 15 photoanode, sensitized with organic or metal complex dye and infiltrated with a redox active electrolyte. [O’Regan, B. and M. Gratzel (1991). "A Low-Cost, High-Efficiency Solar-Cell Based On Dye-Sensitized Colloidal TiO2 Films." Nature 353(6346): 737-740.] They currently have certified power conversion efficiencies of 11.4% [Martin A. Green et al. Prog. Photovolt: Res. Appl. 2011; 19:565-572] and highest reported efficiencies are 12.3% [Aswani Yella, et al. Science 334, 629 (2011)]. The current embodiment of organic solar cells, is a nanostructured composite of a light absorbing and hole- 20 transporting polymer blended with a fullerene derivative acting as the n-type semiconductor and electron acceptor [Yu, G., J. Gao, et al. (1995) Science 270(5243): 1789-1791 and Halls, J. J. M., C. A. Walsh, et al. (1995) Nature 376(6540): 498-500]. The most efficient organic solar cells are now just over 10% [Green, M. A., K. Emery, et al. (2012). "Solar cell efficiency tables (version 39)." Progress in Photovoltaics 20(1): 12-20]. Beyond organic materials and dyes, there has been growing activity in the development of solution processable inorganic semiconductors for thin-film solar cells. 25 Specific interest has emerged in colloidal quantum dots, which now have verified efficiencies of over 5%, [Tang, J, et al. Nature Materials 10, 765-771 (2011)] and in cheaply processable thin film semiconductors grown from solution such as copper zinc tin sulphide selenide (CZTSS) which has generated a lot of excitement recently by breaking the 10% efficiency barrier in a low cost fabrication route. [Green, M. A., K. Emery, et al. (2012). "Solar cell efficiency tables (vers ion 39)." Progress in Photovoltaics 20(1): 12-20] The main issue currently with CZTSS system is that it is processed with 30 hydrazine, a highly explosive reducing agent [Teodor K. Todorov et al. Adv. Matter 2010, 22, E156-E159]. [0004] For a solar cell to be efficient, the first requirement is that it absorbs most of the sun light over the visible to near infrared region (300 to 900nm), and converts the light effectively to charge. Beyond this however, the charge needs to be collected at a high voltage in order to do useful work, and it is the generation of a high voltage with suitable current that is the most challenging aspect for the emerging solar technologies.
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