Journal
ORGANIC ELECTRONICS
Volume 12, Issue 9, Pages 1539-1543Publisher
ELSEVIER
DOI: 10.1016/j.orgel.2011.05.027
Keywords
Polymer solar cell; Solution processing; Inverted structure; Zinc oxide nanoparticles; Al doped ZnO; Electron injection layer
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- German Research Foundation (DFG) [BR 4031/1-1]
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In this article, we demonstrate a route to solve one of the big challenges in the large scale printing process of organic solar cells, which is the reliable deposition of very thin layers. Especially materials for electron (EIL) and hole injection layers (HIL) (except poly(3,4-ethylene dioxythiophene):(polystyrene sulfonic acid) (PEDOT:PSS)) have a low conductivity and therefore require thin films with only a few tens of nanometers thickness to keep the serial resistance under control. To overcome this limitation, we investigated inverted polymer solar cells with an active layer comprising a blend of poly(3-hexylthiophene) (P3HT) and [6,6]-phenyl-C-61-butyric acid methyl ester (PCBM) with solution processed aluminum-doped zinc oxide (AZO) EIL. Devices with AZO and intrinsic zinc oxide (i-ZnO) EIL show comparable efficiency at low layer thicknesses of around 30 nm. The conductivity of the doped zinc oxide is found to be three orders of magnitude higher than for the i-ZnO reference. Therefore the buffer layer thickness can be enhanced significantly to more than 100 nm without hampering the solar cell performance, while devices with 100 nm i-ZnO films already suffer from increased series resistance and reduced efficiency. (C) 2011 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
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