Journal
ADVANCED ENERGY MATERIALS
Volume 6, Issue 5, Pages -Publisher
WILEY-V C H VERLAG GMBH
DOI: 10.1002/aenm.201502025
Keywords
fullerenes; grazing incidence diffraction; intercalation dynamics; organic solar cells; thin films
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- Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) through the Cluster of Excellence Engineering of Advanced Materials
- European Synchrotron Radiation Facility ESRF
- [SFB 953]
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The complex intermixing morphology is critical for the performance of the nanostructured polymer:fullerene bulk heterojunction (BHJ) solar cells. Here, time resolved in situ grazing incidence X-ray diffraction and grazing incidence small angle X-ray scattering are used to track the structure formation of BHJ thin films formed from the donor polymer poly(2,5-bis(3-hexadecylthiophen-2-yl)thieno[3,2-b]thiophene) with different fullerene derivative acceptors. The formation of stable bimolecular crystals through the intercalation of fullerene molecules between the side chains of polymer crystallites is investigated. Such systems exhibit more efficient exciton dissociation but lower photo-conductance and faster decay of charges. On the basis of the experimental observations, intercalation obviously takes place before or with the formation of the crystalline polymer domains. It results in more stable structures whose volume remains constant upon further drying. Three distinct periods of drying are observed and the formation of unidimensional fullerene channels along the -stacking direction of polymer crystallites is confirmed.
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