Domain Size and Purity in the active Layers of Vacuum deposited Organic Solar Cells

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Organic photovoltaics (OPVs) offer a low-cost and environmentally friendly solution to the global energy transition given their scalable vacuum- or solution-based production processes and abundant inexpensive raw materials. Furthermore, their properties are highly tuneable due to wide range of possible organic molecules. Efficient OPVs consist of a photovoltaic active bulk hetero-junction (BHJ), i.e. a mix of donor molecules (D) and acceptor molecules (A). Their efficient operation relies on a particular microstructure in the BHJ, not too finely mixed, not to much phase separated, to reach high efficiencies. This microstructure depends on many factors, from molecular structure to processing. In this proposal, we plan to use the capabilities of ISIS to investigate how the microstructure forms and how we can influence it such that we can improve the efficiency of OPV further.

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DOI https://doi.org/10.5286/ISIS.E.RB2010523-1
Metadata Access https://icatisis.esc.rl.ac.uk/oaipmh/request?verb=GetRecord&metadataPrefix=oai_datacite&identifier=oai:icatisis.esc.rl.ac.uk:inv/110020194
Provenance
Creator Dr Robert Dalgliesh; Dr Moritz Riede; Mr Andreas Lauritzen; Professor Chris Nicklin; Dr Sarah Rogers
Publisher ISIS Neutron and Muon Source
Publication Year 2023
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 2020-03-09T08:30:00Z
Temporal Coverage End 2020-03-11T08:08:12Z