Document Type
Conference Proceeding
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing India Pvt. Ltd
Faculty
Faculty of Computing, Health and Science
School
Electron Science Research Institute
RAS ID
14783
Abstract
We investigate the influence of the post solvent evaporation time delay on the performance of polymer solar cell (PSC) devices employing a bulk heterojunction photoactive polymer layer of regioregular poly(3-hexylthiophene) as electron donor and polymer [6,6]-thienylC61 butyric acid methyl ester as an electron acceptor. Characterization of the fabricated solar cell devices clearly demonstrates balanced transport of electrons and holes in the blend and confirms increased surface roughness and crystallinity of the films when post solvent evaporation time delay is optimised. An optimum device performance is obtained with 72 hours of post solvent evaporation time delay, achieving a power conversion efficiency of 4.1%, which is 0.9% higher than similar devices made without enough time for polymer-chaindistribution reorganization.
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Comments
Ding, B. , & Alameh, K. (2012). Polymer chain distribution reorganization for improving the power conversion efficiency of polymer solar cells. Proceedings of International Symposium on Macro- and Supramolecular Architecture and Materials MAM-2012. (pp. 261-268). Coimbatore, India. Bloomsbury Publishing India Pvt. Ltd.