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Thermally stable bulk heterojunction prepared by sequential deposition of nanostructured polymer and fullerene
- Title
- Thermally stable bulk heterojunction prepared by sequential deposition of nanostructured polymer and fullerene
- Authors
- Hwang H.; Lee H.; Shafian S.; Lee W.; Seok J.; Ryu K.Y.; Ryu D.Y.; Kim K.
- Ewha Authors
- 김경곤
- SCOPUS Author ID
- 김경곤
- Issue Date
- 2017
- Journal Title
- Polymers
- ISSN
- 2073-4360
- Citation
- Polymers vol. 9, no. 9
- Keywords
- Bulk heterojunction; Organic solar cell; Sequential deposition; Stability
- Publisher
- MDPI AG
- Indexed
- SCIE; SCOPUS
- Document Type
- Article
- Abstract
- A morphologically-stable polymer/fullerene heterojunction has been prepared by minimizing the intermixing between polymer and fullerene via sequential deposition (SqD) of a polymer and a fullerene solution. A low crystalline conjugated polymer of PCPDTBT (poly[2,6-(4,4- bis-(2-ethylhexyl)-4H-cyclopenta [2,1-b;3,4-b0]dithiophene)-alt-4,7(2,1,3-benzothiadiazole)]) has been utilized for the polymer layer and PC71BM (phenyl-C71-butyric-acid-methyl ester) for the fullerene layer, respectively. Firstly, a nanostructured PCPDTBT bottom layer was developed by utilizing various additives to increase the surface area of the polymer film. The PC71BM solution was prepared by dissolving it in the 1,2-dichloroethane (DCE), exhibiting a lower vapor pressure and slower diffusion into the polymer layer. The deposition of the PC71BM solution on the nanostructured PCPDTBT layer forms an inter-digitated bulk heterojunction (ID-BHJ) with minimized intermixing. The organic photovoltaic (OPV) device utilizing the ID-BHJ photoactive layer exhibits a highly reproducible solar cell performance. In spite of restricted intermixing between the PC71BM and the PCPDTBT, the efficiency of ID-BHJ OPVs (3.36%) is comparable to that of OPVs (3.87%) prepared by the conventional method (deposition of a blended solution of polymer:fullerene). The thermal stability of the ID-BHJ is superior to the bulk heterojunction (BHJ) prepared by the conventional method. The ID-BHJ OPV maintains 70% of its initial efficiency after thermal stress application for twelve days at 80 °C, whereas the conventional BHJ OPV maintains only 40% of its initial efficiency. © 2017 by the authors.
- DOI
- 10.3390/polym9090456
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