Journal
ACS APPLIED MATERIALS & INTERFACES
Volume 6, Issue 10, Pages 7633-7642Publisher
AMER CHEMICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1021/am5009425
Keywords
nanoimprint lithography; GISAXS; metal xanthate; copper indium sulfide; organic-inorganic hybrid photovoltaics
Funding
- Austrian Government
- State Government of Styria
- State Government of Upper Austria
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In this paper, we investigate conjugated polymer layers structured by nanoimprint lithography toward their suitability for the fabrication of nanostructured polymer/metal sulfide hybrid solar cells. Consequently, we first study the thermal stability of the nanoimprinted conjugated polymer layers by means of scanning electron microscopy and grazing incidence small-angle X-ray scattering, which reveals a reasonable thermal stability up to 145 degrees C and sufficient robustness against the solvent mixture used in the subsequent fabrication process. In the second part, we demonstrate the preparation of nanostructured polymer/copper indium sulfide hybrid solar cells via the infiltration and thermal decomposition of a mixture of copper and indium xanthates. Although this step needs temperatures of more than 160 degrees C, the nanostructures are retained in the final polymer/copper indium sulfide layers. The nanostructured solar cells show significantly improved power conversion efficiencies compared to similarly prepared flat bilayer devices, which is based on a distinct improvement of the short circuit current in the nanostructured solar cells.
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