Journal
ACS APPLIED MATERIALS & INTERFACES
Volume 3, Issue 11, Pages 4279-4285Publisher
AMER CHEMICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1021/am2009458
Keywords
SubPc; interfacial layer; inverted polymer solar cells; poly(3-hexylthiophene):PCBM
Funding
- Ministry of Education, Science and Technology (MEST), Korea through the Global Research Laboratory (GRL), Acceleration Research [R0A-2008-000-20108-0]
- BK21 programs
- National Science Foundation [OISE-0965057]
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The effect of a nanoscale boron subphthalocyanine chloride (SubPc) interfacial layer on the performance of inverted polymer solar cells based on poly (3-hexyl thiophene) (P3HT) and [6,6]-phenyl-C-71-butyric acid methyl ester (PC71BM) was studied. When a 1 nm SubPc layer was introduced between the active layer (P3HT:PC71BM) and MoOx, in the device with ITO/ZnO/P3HT:PC71BM/SubPc/MoOx/Al configuration, the power conversion efficiency (PCE) was increased from 3.42 (without SubPc) to 3.59%. This improvement is mainly attributed to the enhanced open-circuit voltage from 0.62 to 0.64 V. When the Flory-Huggins interaction parameters were estimated from the solubility parameters through the contact angle measurement, it revealed that the interaction between SubPc and PC71BM is more attractive than that between SubPc and P3HT at the interface of P3HT:PC71BM/SubPc, through which charges are well transported from the active layer to the anode. This is supported by a decrease of the contact resistance from 5.49 (SubPc 0 nm) to 0.94 M Omega cm (SubPc 1 nm). The photoelectron spectra provide another evidence for the enhanced PCE, exhibiting that the 1 nm thick SubPc layer extracts more photoelectrons from the active layer than other thicknesses.
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