Nanostructured organic layers via polymer demixing for interface-enhanced photovoltaic cells
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2006-11-14
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Castro, Fernando A.
Benmansour, Hadjar
Graeff, Carlos Frederico de Oliveira [UNESP]
Nuesch, Frank
Tutis, Eduard
Hany, Roland
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Amer Chemical Soc
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Significant progress is being made in the photovoltaic energy conversion using organic semiconducting materials. One of the focuses of attention is the morphology of the donor-acceptor heterojunction at the nanometer scale, to ensure efficient charge generation and loss-free charge transport at the same time. Here, we present a method for the controlled, sequential design of a bilayer polymer cell architecture that consists of a large interface area with connecting paths to the respective electrodes for both materials. We used the surface-directed demixing of a donor conjugated/guest polymer blend during spin coating to produce a nanostructured interface, which was, after removal of the guest with a selective solvent, covered with an acceptor layer. With use of a donor poly(p-phenylenevinylene) derivative and the acceptor C-60 fullerene, this resulted in much-improved device performance, with external power efficiencies more than 3 times higher than those reported for that particular material combination so far.
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Chemistry of Materials. Washington: Amer Chemical Soc, v. 18, n. 23, p. 5504-5509, 2006.