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Organic Solar Cells Based on Three-Dimensionally Percolated Polythiophene Nanowires with Enhanced Charge Transport

Author(s)
Kim, Joo-HyunKim, MinJinnai, HiroshiShin, Tae JooKim, HaenaPark, Jong HwanJo, Sae ByeokCho, Kilwon
Issued Date
2014-04
DOI
10.1021/am501358k
URI
https://scholarworks.unist.ac.kr/handle/201301/30870
Fulltext
https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/am501358k
Citation
ACS APPLIED MATERIALS & INTERFACES, v.6, no.8, pp.5640 - 5650
Abstract
The influence of micrometer-scale poly(3-hexylthiophene) (P3HT) nanowires (NWs) and P3HT nanocrystals (NCs) on the photocurrent generation in photoactive layers having various thickness values was investigated. Self-organizing P3HT NWs were fabricated using a marginal solvent. Transmission electron microtomography was used to characterize the vertical and horizontal crystalline morphologies of the NW's and their intergrain percolation networks in the active layers. The interpenetrating P3HT NWs promoted charge transport, as demonstrated by the enhanced percolation probability and the reduction in bimolecular recombination. The photovoltaic performances were enhanced as the photoactive layer thickness increased because internal quantum efficiencies of the solar devices prepared with active layers having NW's were maintained with varying thicknesses, suggesting that the conversion of absorbed photons into a photocurrent proceeded efficiently. By contrast, the photovoltaic performances of an NC-only photoactive layer were reduced by the increase in thickness due to its poorly developed percolation pathways. The incorporation of P3HT NWs into the P3HT:indene-C-60 bisadduct photoactive layers yielded a device power conversion efficiency (PCE) of 5.42%, and the photocurrent did not decrease significantly up to a thickness of 600 nm, resulting in a PCE of 3.75%, 70% of the maximum PCE of 5.42%.
Publisher
AMER CHEMICAL SOC
ISSN
1944-8244
Keyword (Author)
percolation pathwaypercolation probabilitycharge transporttransmission electron microtomographypolythiophene nanowirephotoactive layer thickness
Keyword
INTERNAL QUANTUM EFFICIENCYPOLYMER PHOTOVOLTAIC CELLSPERFORMANCEMORPHOLOGYFULLERENEACCEPTOR3-HEXYLTHIOPHENEORGANIZATIONDEPENDENCECOPOLYMER

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