Effect of Nucleating Agents on Phase Behavior in thin film bulk heterojunction photovoltaics - NR study

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Neutron reflection will be used to investigate the normal composition profile in thin films of blends of electron-donor poly(alkyl thiophene) and the electron-acceptor fullerenes (C60, PCBM and bis-PCBM). These compounds are currently under investigation as model bulk heterojunction solar cells. The phase behavior of the film as a function of nucleating agent composition up to 2 wt% will be evaluated using NR and compared to device performance measurements. The nucleating agents are known to directly affect the degree of crystallinity and therefore the amorphous-crystalline surface area to volume ratio. This will have an effect on the interaction area between the P3AT-fullerenes which is known to have dramatic effect on electronic performance of these materials.

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DOI https://doi.org/10.5286/ISIS.E.24091151
Metadata Access https://icatisis.esc.rl.ac.uk/oaipmh/request?verb=GetRecord&metadataPrefix=oai_datacite&identifier=oai:icatisis.esc.rl.ac.uk:inv/24091151
Provenance
Creator Professor Alamgir Karim; Dr David Bucknall; Mr Nabankur Deb
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 2013-08-04T21:34:49Z
Temporal Coverage End 2013-09-20T17:54:25Z