Morphological Stability of Organic Solar Cell Structures during Aging

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Organic photovoltaics (OPVs) have recently surpassed 10% power conversion efficiency (PCE), a key milestone towards commercialisation. Achieving validated lifetimes beyond 10 years is equally important, yet the physical degradation of active organic layers during device operation is not yet well understood. Efficient OPVs rely on solid-state light absorbing mixtures of electron donating and accepting molecules with nanometre-scale domains. As the initial microstructure in OPVs is kinetically trapped during fabrication, thermal- and photo-induced demixing arising from prolonged operation can severely degrade PCE. We propose to use neutron reflectometry at OFFSPEC on pristine and aged OPVs using a new series of high-performance donor polymers to probe microstructural evolution and layer demixing, helping reveal design strategies for significant OPV lifetime improvement.

Identifier
DOI https://doi.org/10.5286/ISIS.E.63525678
Metadata Access https://icatisis.esc.rl.ac.uk/oaipmh/request?verb=GetRecord&metadataPrefix=oai_datacite&identifier=oai:icatisis.esc.rl.ac.uk:inv/63525678
Provenance
Creator Dr Sameer Vajjala Kesava; Mr Giulio Mazzotta; Mr Ivan Ramirez; Dr Owen Lozman; Dr Graham Morse; Dr Josue Martinez Hardigree; Dr Robert Dalgliesh; Dr Sarah Rogers; Dr Jos Cooper; Dr Moritz Riede
Publisher ISIS Neutron and Muon Source
Publication Year 2018
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 2015-10-01T07:00:00Z
Temporal Coverage End 2015-10-04T07:00:00Z