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Enhanced performance of polymer: fullerene bulk heterojunction solar cells upon graphene addition

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APPLIED PHYSICS LETTERS
Volume 105, Issue 8, Pages -

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AIP Publishing
DOI: 10.1063/1.4893777

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  1. UHasselt Special Research Fund (POLYDIAM)
  2. Research Foundation-Flanders [G.05555.10N]
  3. Royal Society Wolfson Research Merit Award
  4. European Research Council Grant Hetero2D
  5. EU [604391]
  6. EPSRC Grant [EP/K01711X/1, EP/K017144/1, EP/L016087/1]
  7. Nokia Research Centre
  8. Newton International Fellowship
  9. EPSRC [EP/K01711X/1, EP/K017144/1] Funding Source: UKRI
  10. Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council [EP/K01711X/1, EP/K017144/1] Funding Source: researchfish

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Graphene has potential for applications in solar cells. We show that the short circuit current density of P3HT (Poly(3-hexylthiophene-2,5-diyl):PCBM((6,6)-Phenyl C61 butyric acid methyl ester) solar cells is enhanced by 10% upon the addition of graphene, with a 15% increase in the photon to electric conversion efficiency. We discuss the performance enhancement by studying the crystallization of P3HT, as well as the electrical transport properties. We show that graphene improves the balance between electron and hole mobilities with respect to a standard P3HT:PCBM solar cell. (C) 2014 AIP Publishing LLC.

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