A method of making films surface imprinted with nanometer-sized particles
to produce micro- and/or nano-structured electron and hole collecting
interfaces, include providing at least one transparent substrate,
providing at least one photoabsorbing conjugated polymer, providing a
sufficient amount of nanometer-sized particles to produce a charge
separation interface, providing at least one transparent polymerizable
layer, embedding the nanometer-sized particles in the conjugated polymer,
applying the polymerizable layer and the conjugated
polymer/nanometer-sized particle mixture on separate substrates where the
nanometer-sized particles form a stamp surface, imprinting the stamp
surface into the surface of the polymerizable film layer to produce
micro- and/or nano-structured electron and hole collecting interfaces,
polymerizing the polymerizable film layer to form a conformal gap, and
filling the gap with at least one photoabsorbing material to promote the
generation of photoexcited electrons and transport to the charge
separation interface.