High-Permittivity Conjugated Polyelectrolyte Interlayers for High-Performance Bulk Heterojunction Organic Solar CellsShow others and affiliations
2016 (English)In: ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces, ISSN 1944-8244, E-ISSN 1944-8252, Vol. 8, no 10, p. 6309-6314Article in journal (Refereed) Published
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Abstract [en]
Conjugated polyelectrolyte (CPE) interfacial layers present a powerful way to boost the I-V characteristics of organic photovoltaics. Nevertheless, clear guidelines with respect to the structure of high-performance interlayers are still lacking. In this work, impedance spectroscopy is applied to probe the dielectric permittivity of a series of polythiophene-based CPEs. The presence of ionic pendant groups grants the formation of a capacitive double layer, boosting the charge extraction and device efficiency. A counteracting effect is the diminishing affinity with the underlying photoactive layer. To balance these two effects, we found copolymer structures containing nonionic side chains to be beneficial.
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AMER CHEMICAL SOC , 2016. Vol. 8, no 10, p. 6309-6314
Keywords [en]
organic photovoltaics; cathode interlayers; conjugated polyelectrolytes; impedance spectroscopy; dielectric permittivity
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Physical Sciences
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URN: urn:nbn:se:liu:diva-127270DOI: 10.1021/acsami.6b00242ISI: 000372479300002PubMedID: 26927416OAI: oai:DiVA.org:liu-127270DiVA, id: diva2:921610
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Funding Agencies|IAP project Functional Supramolecular Systems [7/05]; Science Policy Office of the Belgian Federal Government (BELSPO); Research Program of the Research Foundation Flanders (FWO) [G.0415.14N]; Foundation for Fundamental Research on Matter (FOM) from The Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research (NWO) [V0714M-13MV60]; Swedish Research Council Linnaeus LiLi-NFM at Linkoping University; Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB); University of Montpellier; CNRS; University of Mons
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