Depth Profile of High Hole-Mobility Polymer/Fullerene-derivative Bilayers for Organic Photovoltaics

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Advantages of using organic materials as the active layer in photovoltaics include their suitability for low cost and large area processes and their mechanical flexibility. In particular, an accurate control of the nanoscale morphology of the active layer is paramount for optimizing the performance of the devices. Bulk-heterojunction devices are the best perfoming at present but are multicomponent systems, with plenty of unknowns for optimising performance. We propose to use Neutron Reflectometry, to probe the nanoscale morphology and interdiffusion of the donor-acceptor pair on a simple bilayer device with similar performance. We will use a polymer donor with high hole mobility and interesting solubility behaviour, and monitor the structure as a function of annealing temperature and device preparation method.

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DOI https://doi.org/10.5286/ISIS.E.24090598
Metadata Access https://icatisis.esc.rl.ac.uk/oaipmh/request?verb=GetRecord&metadataPrefix=oai_datacite&identifier=oai:icatisis.esc.rl.ac.uk:inv/24090598
Provenance
Creator Dr Franco Cacialli; Mr Giuseppe Paterno; Dr Victoria Garcia Sakai
Publisher ISIS Neutron and Muon Source
Publication Year 2016
Rights CC-BY Attribution 4.0 International; https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
OpenAccess true
Contact isisdata(at)stfc.ac.uk
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Resource Type Dataset
Discipline Photon- and Neutron Geosciences
Temporal Coverage Begin 2013-05-16T07:42:12Z
Temporal Coverage End 2013-05-21T07:55:02Z