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APPLIED PHYSICS LETTERS
Volume 104, Issue 6, Pages -Publisher
AMER INST PHYSICS
DOI: 10.1063/1.4865090
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- UK Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) [EP/I032541/1, EP/I028641/1, EP/J017361/1]
- Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council [EP/I032541/1, EP/I028641/1, EP/H049452/1] Funding Source: researchfish
- EPSRC [EP/H049452/1, EP/I032541/1, EP/I028641/1] Funding Source: UKRI
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Nickel oxide thin films have been prepared from a nickel acetylacetonate (Ni(acac)) precursor for use in bulk heterojunction organic photovoltaic devices. The conversion of Ni(acac) to NiOx has been investigated. Oxygen plasma treatment of the NiO layer after annealing at 400 degrees C affords solar cell efficiencies of 5.2%. Photoelectron spectroscopy shows that high temperature annealing converts the Ni(acac) to a reduced form of nickel oxide. Additional oxygen plasma treatment further oxidizes the surface layers and deepens the NiO work function from 4.7 eV for the annealed film, to 5.0 eV allowing for efficient hole extraction at the organic interface. (C) 2014 Author(s). All article content, except where otherwise noted, is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported License.
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