Nanoscale Phase Separation in Organic Solar Cells and Its Impact on Device Performance

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Solid-state Organic Solar cells (OSCs) have the potential to be the basis of a renewable energy source that is inexpensive and portable. Current state-of-the-art solution-processed OSC cells are based on the so-called bulk heterojunction (BHJ) architecture, in which phase separation of donors and acceptors is critical to performance. Therefore, understanding the nanoscale morphology and the diffusion mechanism in OSC cells is of great importance, as this directly affects device performance. We plan to build on recent preliminary experiments on LOQ to answer key questions on phase separation in BHJ cells. Specifically, we aim to understand (1) the effect of blend ratio on aggregation, (2) the effect of annealing, (3) why "bilayer" solar cells work as well as they do, and (4) why some materials work well with C70 fullerenes but others don't.

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DOI https://doi.org/10.5286/ISIS.E.24089667
Metadata Access https://icatisis.esc.rl.ac.uk/oaipmh/request?verb=GetRecord&metadataPrefix=oai_datacite&identifier=oai:icatisis.esc.rl.ac.uk:inv/24089667
Provenance
Creator Professor Ian Gentle; Professor Paul Burn; Dr Michael James; Mr Jake McEwan; Dr Paul Shaw
Publisher ISIS Neutron and Muon Source
Publication Year 2015
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 2012-10-06T07:59:06Z
Temporal Coverage End 2012-10-08T07:33:50Z