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NANOSCALE
Volume 9, Issue 1, Pages 62-69Publisher
ROYAL SOC CHEMISTRY
DOI: 10.1039/c6nr06156g
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- Regione Lazio through CHOSE - Polo Solare Organico
- Consolidate the Foundation PHLIGHT
- EU project TWINFUSYON (Horizon 2020) [692034]
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A five-layer (5L) graphene on a glass substrate has been demonstrated as a transparent conductive electrode to replace indium tin oxide (ITO) in organic photovoltaic devices. The required low sheet resistance, while maintaining high transparency, and the need of a wettable surface are the main issues. To overcome these, two strategies have been applied: (i) the p-doping of the multilayer graphene, thus reaching 25 Omega square(-1) or (ii) the O-2-plasma oxidation of the last layer of the 5L graphene that results in a contact angle of 58 degrees and a sheet resistance of 134 Omega square(-1). A Nd:YVO4 laser patterning has been implemented to realize the desired layout of graphene through an easy and scalable way. Inverted Polymer Solar Cells (PSCs) have been fabricated onto the patterned and modified graphene. The use of PEDOT:PSS has facilitated the deposition of the electron transport layer and a non-chlorinated solvent (orthoxylene) has been used in the processing of the active layer. It has been found that the two distinct functionalization strategies of graphene have beneficial effects on the overall performance of the devices, leading to an efficiency of 4.2%. Notably, this performance has been achieved with an active area of 10 mm(2), the largest area reported in the literature for graphene-based inverted PSCs.
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