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JOURNAL OF NANOSCIENCE AND NANOTECHNOLOGY
Volume 12, Issue 7, Pages 5577-5581Publisher
AMER SCIENTIFIC PUBLISHERS
DOI: 10.1166/jnn.2012.6247
Keywords
Organic Photovoltaic Cells; Bulk Heterojunction; Thermal Post-Annealing; Buffer Layer; Power Conversion Efficiency
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- Basic Science Research Program through the National Research Foundation of Korea (NRF)
- Ministry of Education, Science and Technology [2011-0025491]
- National Research Foundation of Korea [2011-0025491] Funding Source: Korea Institute of Science & Technology Information (KISTI), National Science & Technology Information Service (NTIS)
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The effects of thermal annealing on the efficiency of heterojunction photovoltaic (PV) cells that were fabricated using poly(3-hexylthiophene) (P3HT) and methanofullerene, [6,6]-phenyl C61-butyric acid methyl ester (PCBM) were investigated. The absorption spectra showed that the absorption intensity of the P3HT:PCBM layer that was annealed for 5 min had the highest value among the several samples with different annealing temperatures. The atomic force microscopy image showed that the P3HT:PCBM layer that was annealed for 5 min had the best surface morphology. The X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy demonstrated that the P3HT:PCBM layer that was annealed at 140 degrees C for 10 min enhanced the PCBM aggregation on the surface Al layer that was covered by the P3HT:PCBM layer. The efficiencies of the PV cells that were annealed at 3, 5, and 10 min were approximately 2.7, 4.2, and 3.5%, respectively. Based on the experiment results, the variations in the efficiency of the PV cells due their thermal treatment were described.
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