Enhancing the efficiency of bulk heterojunction solar cells via templated self-assembly

Cheng Pan; Hongfei Li; Bulent Akgun; Sushil K. Satijia; Yimei Zhu; Di Xu; Joseph Ortiz; Dilip Gersappe; Miriam H. Rafailovich

doi:10.1021/ma302458d

Enhancing the efficiency of bulk heterojunction solar cells via templated self-assembly

Cheng Pan
, Hongfei Li
, Bulent Akgun
, Sushil K. Satijia
, Yimei Zhu
, Di Xu
, Joseph Ortiz
, Dilip Gersappe
, Miriam H. Rafailovich

Materials Science and Engineering

Stony Brook University

Stony Brook University
National Institute of Standards and Technology
Bogazici University
Brookhaven National Laboratory

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Abstract

Morphology control in bulk heterojunction (BHJ) solar cell is considered to be critical for the power conversion efficiency (PCE). In this paper, we present a novel approach that introduces polystyrene that organizes the poly(3-hexylthiophene) (P3HT) into columnar phases decorated by [6,6]-phenyl C₆₁-butyric acid methyl ester (PCBM) at the interface. This structure represents a realization of an idealized morphology of an organic solar cell, in which both exiciton dissociation and the carrier transport are optimized, leading to increased power conversion efficiency.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	1812-1819
Number of pages	8
Journal	Macromolecules
Volume	46
Issue number	5
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1021/ma302458d
State	Published - Mar 12 2013

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