Low-boiling-point solvent additives can also enable morphological control in polymer solar cells
| Autor: | Kanwar S. Nalwa, Rakesh C. Mahadevapuram, Yuqing Chen, John A. Carr, Jacob W. Petrich, Sumit Chaudhary, Sayantan Bose |
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| Rok vydání: | 2013 |
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Chemical substance
Photoluminescence Materials science Organic solar cell Mechanical Engineering Metals and Alloys Thermal treatment Condensed Matter Physics Polymer solar cell Electronic Optical and Magnetic Materials Solvent Boiling point Chemical engineering Mechanics of Materials Materials Chemistry Organic chemistry Leakage (electronics) |
| Zdroj: | Synthetic Metals. :115-119 |
| ISSN: | 0379-6779 |
| Popis: | Processing organic photovoltaic (OPV) blend solutions with high-boiling-point solvent additives has recently been used for morphological control in bulk-heterojunction OPV cells. Here we show that even low-boiling-point solvents can be effective additives. When P3HT:PCBM OPV cells were processed with a low-boiling-point solvent tetrahydrafuran as an additive in parent solvent o-dichlorobenzene, charge extraction increased leading to fill factors as high as 69.5%, without low work-function cathodes, electrode buffer layers or thermal treatment. This was attributed to PCBM demixing from P3HT domains and better vertical phase separation, as indicated by photoluminescence lifetimes, hole mobilities, and shunt leakage currents. Dependence on solvent parameters and applicability beyond P3HT system was also investigated. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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