Journal
ENERGY & ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE
Volume 8, Issue 1, Pages 332-342Publisher
ROYAL SOC CHEMISTRY
DOI: 10.1039/c4ee03059a
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- Australian Research Council [FT100100275]
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- Victorian Organic Solar Cell Consortium (VICOSC)
- Victorian Department of Primary Industries, Victorian Department of Business and Innovation
- Australian Renewable Energy Agency (ARENA)
- Australian Centre for Advanced Photovoltaics (ACAP)
- Australian Research Council [FT100100275] Funding Source: Australian Research Council
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The microstructure and photophysics of low-band gap, all-polymer photovoltaic blends are presented. Blends are based on the donor polymer BFS4 (a dithienyl-benzo[1,2-b:4,5-b]dithiophene/5-fluoro-2,1,3-benzothiadiazole co-polymer) paired with the naphthalene diimide-based acceptor polymer P(NDI2OD-T2). Efficiencies of over 4% are demonstrated, with an open circuit voltage of greater than 0.9 V achieved. Transmission electron microscopy reveals a relatively coarse phase-separated morphology, with elongated domains up to 200 nm in width. Near-edge X-ray absorption fine-structure (NEXAFS) spectroscopy and atomic force microscopy (AFM) measurements reveal that the top surface of BFS4:P(NDI2OD-T2) blends is covered with a pure BFS4 capping layer. Depth profiling measurements confirm this vertical phase separation with a surface-directed spinodal decomposition wave observed. Grazing-incidence wide-angle X-ray scattering (GIWAXS) measurements confirm that BFS4 and P(NDI2OD-T2) are semicrystalline with both polymers retaining their semicrystalline nature when blended. Photoluminescence spectroscopy reveals incomplete photoluminescence quenching with as much as 30% of excitons failing to reach a donor/acceptor interface. Transient absorption spectroscopy measurements also find evidence for rapid geminate recombination.
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