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JOURNAL OF APPLIED PHYSICS
Volume 97, Issue 1, Pages -Publisher
AMER INST PHYSICS
DOI: 10.1063/1.1804613
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Solution-processed photovoltaic devices based on blends of conjugated polymers and inorganic semiconductor tetrapods show high efficiencies due to the good electron transport perpendicular to the plane of the film. Here, we show that by using a high-boiling-point solvent, 1,2,4-trichlorobenzene, instead of chloroform for spin-coating, we can typically obtain a threefold increase in solar power conversion efficiency in devices based on CdSe tetrapods and the poly(p-phenylenvinylene) derivative OC1C10-PPV. The optimized devices show AM1.5 solar power conversion efficiencies of typically 2.1% with some devices as high as 2.8%. The results can be explained by the occurrence of vertical phase separation which leads to an optimal structure for charge collection. Evidence for this structure is obtained by environmental scanning electron microscopy, photocurrent action spectra measurements, time-resolved photoluminescence, and spectroscopic measurements of exciton dissociation and charge-carrier recombination. (C) 2005 American Institute of Physics.
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