Journal
SOLAR ENERGY MATERIALS AND SOLAR CELLS
Volume 101, Issue -, Pages 249-255Publisher
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DOI: 10.1016/j.solmat.2012.02.005
Keywords
Polymer solar cells; Bulk heterojunction (BHJ); Thermal stability; Air stability; Morphological change; Degradation
Funding
- ERC [R11-2007-045-01002-0(2009)]
- NCRC of National Research Foundation (NRF) [2011-0006268]
- Korea Ministry of Education, Science and Technology (MEST)
- NRF of Korea
- MEST [20110023215, 20110027677]
- National Research Foundation of Korea (NRF)
- Ministry of Education, Science and Technology [2010-0029321]
- National Research Foundation of Korea [2009-0093250] Funding Source: Korea Institute of Science & Technology Information (KISTI), National Science & Technology Information Service (NTIS)
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In this study, the physical and chemical degradation behaviors of active layers based on semicrystalline p-type polymer (poly(3-hexylthiophene) (P3HT)) and [6,6]-phenyl C-71 butyric acid methyl-ester (PC71BM) are compared with the corresponding behaviors of amorphous p-type polymer of poly [N-9 ''-hepta-decanyl-2,7-carbazole-alt-5,5-(4',7'-di-2-thienyl-2',1',3'-benzothiadiazole)] (PCDTBT)and PC71BM. A surface morphological study of the active layer (from Atomic force microscopy (AFM) and scanning electron microscopy (SEM) images) and a chemical analysis (from X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy (XPS) and Energy dispersive X-ray spectroscopy (EDS) results) help explain why PCDTBT/PC71BM bulk heterojunction (BHJ) has a higher level of long-term stability under thermal and air stability experimental conditions than a P3HT/PC71BM-based BHJ. The power conversion efficiency for a PCDTBT/PC71BM BHJ cell and a P3HT/PC71BM BHJ cell decreased by 11% and 21%, respectively, after a thermal stability test and by 68% and 78%, respectively, after a 300 h air stability test. (C) 2012 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
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