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Stabilizing silver window electrodes for organic photovoltaics using a mercaptosilane monolayer
摘要： A single layer of the bifunctional molecule 3-mercaptopropyltrimethoxysilane is shown to be remarkably effective at improving the stability of optically thin silver film electrodes towards spontaneous morphological change and oxidation by airborne sulfur. Inclusion of this layer in the novel transparent electrode; WO3 (30 nm) / silver (13 nm) / sol-gel ZnO (27 nm), at the silver / ZnO interface improves the efficiency of organic photovoltaic devices using this electrode by 20%, such that the power conversion efficiency is very close to that achievable using a conventional indium-tin oxide glass electrode; 9.6 % – 0.2 % vs 10.0 % – 0.3 %, with the advantage that the silver electrode has a sheet resistance one third that of the ITO glass ((cid:3)4 Ohms sq-1). The mercaptosilane monolayer is also shown to retard silver diffusion into the ZnO layer whilst imparting a favorable (cid:3)400 meV reduction in electrode work function. In addition to its utility inside the device, this molecular layer is shown to be useful for improving the stability of the silver film electrodes in top-illuminated semi-transparent photovoltaics, since it can be deposited directly onto a completed device from the vapor phase.
关键词： organic photovoltaic,silane,transparent electrode,silver electrode,3-mercaptopropyltrimethoxysilane,Monolayer,work function,organic solar cell
更新于2025-11-03 10:59:25
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Exploiting lateral current flow due to doped layers in semiconductor devices having crossbar electrodes
摘要： Organic electronic devices such as light-emitting diodes, solar cells or rectifying diodes normally have a sandwich layer architecture stacked between the electrodes in a crossbar layout. Often however, the side effects of operating the devices in such an arrangement are either ignored or give rise to misinterpretations regarding the device performance or layer quality. For the sake of simplicity, device currents are typically assumed to exclusively flow in the direction vertical to the substrate, even though the conductivity of doped organic layers is high and gives rise to significant lateral current flows. Here, we study the vertical and lateral charge up along the n-doped and the p-doped layers as well as the resulting capacitance increase of charging the intrinsic layer outside the active area. We observe that controlling such lateral charging by structuring the doped layers can reduce the leakage current dramatically. We employ impedance spectroscopy to investigate the lateral charging responsibility for the capacitance increase at low frequencies. Modeling of the devices by a distributed RC circuit model yields information about the thickness, the conductivity, and the corresponding activation energy of both, the n-doped and the p-doped layers, simultaneously. We demonstrate that the capacitive effects from lateral charging can easily be misinterpreted as trap states in capacitance frequency characteristics. However, correct analysis with the proposed model actually yields rich and detailed post-fabrication information which can be utilized in device failure and degradation tests. Moreover, our results will aid the design and characterization of new electronic devices where lateral charge flow is part of the device concept.
关键词： Parasitic current,Leakage current,Impedance spectroscopy,Crossbar electrodes,Lateral current flow,Organic light-emitting diode,Capacitance,Organic solar cell,Structuring
更新于2025-09-23 15:21:21
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Editorial: Window Electrodes for Emerging Thin Film Photovoltaics
摘要： Photovoltaics (PVs) fabricated by printing at low temperature onto ?exible substrates are attractive for a broad range of applications in buildings and transportation, where ?exibility, color-tuneability, and light-weight are essential requirements. Two emerging PV technologies on the cusp of commercialization are organic PVs and perovskite PVs. CIGS, CdTe, and a-Si solar cells also have potential applications in ?exible PVs. It is widely recognized that these classes of PV will only ful?ll their full cost advantage and functional advantages over conventional thin ?lm PVs if a suitable transparent, ?exible electrode is forthcoming (Lu et al., 2018). Indium tin oxide (ITO) is the most popular transparent conductor material for opto-electronics including solar cells and displays. However, the fragile ceramic nature makes ITO unsuitable for future electronics such as ?exible, stretchable, and wearable electronics because it will easily develop cracks under mechanical deformation. Instead, optically thin ?lm or metallic nanowire networks (Sannicolo et al., 2016) of the most electrically conductive metals copper (Cu), silver (Ag), and gold (Au) have shown promising potential, in spite of the oxidation and parasitic absorption problem of Cu and the high material cost problem of Ag and Au. Whilst the chemical, thermal, and electrical stability of transparent electrodes based on these metals presents challenges, it has been shown that thin coating layers can be very e?cient in preserving their integrity and properties (Celle et al., 2018). Additionally, low-temperature, high-throughput deposition techniques, such as spatial atomic layer deposition (SALD) (Mu?oz-Rojas and MacManus-Driscoll, 2014; Khan et al., 2018), can be used to deposit these protective layers.
关键词： solar cell,photovoltaic,transparent electrode,perovskite solar cell,organic photovoltaic,metal ?lm,organic solar cell
更新于2025-09-23 15:21:01
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FDTD Optical Simulation for Organic Solar Cells Incorporated with Antireflection Nanostructures
摘要： To improve the performance of organic photovoltaics, we investigate an integrated device design in which the hybrid antireflection structure, composed of a surface moth-eye nanotexture and a multilayer interference film, is applied with a high-refractive-index glass substrate. The moth eye texture with a relatively long period, which is near the bandgap wavelength of organic semiconductors, is used to enhance light absorption. We perform the optical finite-difference time-domain simulation for the integrated device and find the optimal layer configuration of the multilayer interference film to maximize the photocurrent generation. In addition, we compare the absorption spectrum of the integrated device and that of the device with only moth eye coating, and show that the integrated structure is beneficial to realize a high level of absorption relatively uniformly as function of wavelength.
关键词： Optimization,FDTD,Organic solar cell,Optical simulation
更新于2025-09-23 15:21:01
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[IEEE 2019 12th International Conference on Developments in eSystems Engineering (DeSE) - Kazan, Russia (2019.10.7-2019.10.10)] 2019 12th International Conference on Developments in eSystems Engineering (DeSE) - The Effects of Al-Doped ZnO Layer on the Performance of Organic Solar Cell
摘要： The interface properties as well as the solar cell properties of inverted organic solar cells based on PCDTBT:PCBM blends were investigated using sol-gel aluminum doped ZnO as electron transport layers. The effects of Al concentration on the optical, structural and morphological properties of AZO layer were investigated. The results indicate that Al concentration has influenced the grain size growth leading to different surface morphology. High doping concentration resulted in higher charge carrier density and wider band gap. Using AZO layers in organic solar cell has increased their performance; the best performance was observed for the device with 0.5% Al-doped ZnO layer with efficiency of 3.24%, short circuit current density of 8.82mA.cm-2, fill factor of 0.46% and open circuit voltage of 0.81V, whereas the reference device has exhibited an efficiency of 2.9%, short circuit current density of 7.6mA.cm-2, fill factor of 0.48 % and open circuit voltage of 0.785V.
关键词： Electron Transport layer,PCDTBT:PCBM,Organic solar cell,AZO thin films
更新于2025-09-23 15:21:01
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Higha??Performance Nonfullerene Organic Solar Cells with Unusual Inverted Structure
摘要： A new fused-ring electron acceptor FOIC1 was designed and synthesized. FOIC1 exhibits intense absorption in the range of 600-1000 nm, HOMO/LUMO energy levels of –5.39/–3.99 eV, and electron mobility of 1.8 × 10–3 cm2 V–1 s–1. Organic solar cells based on sequentially processed heterojunction (SHJ) with unusual inverted structure were fabricated. Through sequentially spin-coating polymer donor PTB7-Th as the bottom layer and acceptor FOIC1 as the top layer, a better vertical phase distribution is formed in this SHJ compared with that in traditional bulk heterojunction (BHJ). In the upper-half part, a more balanced donor/acceptor distribution is beneficial for exciton dissociation. At the bottom interface, more FOIC1 accumulation is beneficial for exciton generation and charge transport. Overall, the SHJ cells exhibit power conversion efficiency as high as 12.0%, higher than that of the BHJ counterpart (11.0%).
关键词： sequential processing,inverted structure,nonfullerene,fused-ring electron acceptor,organic solar cell
更新于2025-09-23 15:21:01
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Vacuuma??Free, Alla??Solution, and Alla??Air Processed Organic Photovoltaics with over 11% Efficiency and Promoted Stability Using Layera??bya??Layer Codoped Polymeric Electrodes
摘要： Nonfullerene organic photovoltaics (OPVs) have achieved breakthrough with pushing the efficiency exceeding 15%. While this shed light on OPV commercialization, high cost associated to the scalable device fabrications remains a giant challenge. Herein, we report a vacuum-free, all-solution and all-air processed OPV that yields 11.12% efficiency with fill factor of 0.725, thanks to the usages of high-merit polymeric electrodes and modified active blends. The design principle toward the high-merit electrodes is to induce a heavy acid doping into the matrices for a raised carrier concentration and mobility, make a large removal of insulating components in the whole matrices rather than surfaces, and restrain the formation of large-domain aggregates. A unique layer-by-layer doping was developed to enable the polymeric electrodes with record-high trade-offs between optical transmittance and electrical conductivity. Moreover, solvent vapor annealing was proposed to boost device efficiency and it has the advantages of finely adjusting the active blend morphology and raising the electron mobility. The resulting devices were highly efficient and they maintained most (~91%) of the initial efficiency in 30 day storage. This work gives the bright future for making cost-effective all-solution processed OPVs in air.
关键词： all-solution and all-air processing,PEDOT:PSS,vacuum-free,organic solar cell
更新于2025-09-23 15:21:01
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Bicontinuous network of electron donor-acceptor composites achieved by additive-free sequential deposition for efficient polymer solar cells
摘要： We report that sequential deposition of a highly crystalline polymer donor and a soluble fullerene acceptor leads to a well-defined interpenetrating network and enhanced power conversion efficiencies in bilayer polymer solar cells. Even without the use of solvent additives, layered thin films of poly[(5,6-difluoro-2,1,3-benzothiadiazol-4,7-diyl)-alt-(3,3?-di(2-octyldodecyl)-2,2’;5′,2’’;5″,2?-quaterthiophen-5,5?-diyl)] (PffBT4T-2OD) and [6,6]-phenyl C71-butyric acid methyl ester (PC71BM), as electron donor and acceptor materials, respectively, showed bicontinuous networks similar to those of a PffBT4T-2OD:PC71BM bulk-heterojunction (BHJ) thin film processed with 1,8-diiodooctane (DIO) as a solvent additive. Transmission electron microscopy results confirmed the BHJ-like morphology of the bilayered PffBT4T-2OD/PC71BM thin films. Bilayer solar cells fabricated without the DIO additive produced a power conversion efficiency of η ≈ 7.65%, which is even higher than that of a BHJ solar cell fabricated with the DIO additive (η ≈ 7.04%). These results demonstrate that a highly crystalline polymer donor and an electron-accepting small molecule can be a good combination for efficient bilayer polymer solar cells.
关键词： Bulkheterojunction,Nanomorphology,Sequential deposition,Organic solar cell,Bilayer
更新于2025-09-23 15:21:01
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Achieving efficient green-solvent-processed organic solar cells by employing ortho-ortho perylene diimide dimer
摘要： The lack of electron acceptors with suitable green solvent processing and excellent device performance is an important problem that hinders the development and commercialization of organic solar cells (OSCs). Here, an ortho-ortho perylene diimide (PDI) dimer (oo-2PDI) is developed and used as an acceptor for use in efficient green-solvent-processed (GSP) OSCs. By using chlorobenzene (CB), anisole, and ortho-xylene as the processing solvents, power conversion efficiencies (PCEs) of 5.04%, 5.03%, and 5.78% were achieved without the additive, respectively. In addition, the non-fullerene oo-2PDI-based GSPOSCs show superior photovoltaic performance to [6,6]-phenyl-C61-butyric acid methyl ester (PCBM)-based GSPOSCs under identical conditions. Therefore, these results demonstrate the possibility of achieving efficient non-fullerene GSPOSCs.
关键词： Electron acceptor,Perylene diimide,Green solvent,Ortho-ortho dimer,Organic solar cell
更新于2025-09-23 15:21:01
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Integrated Perovskite/Organic Photovoltaics with Ultrahigh Photocurrent and Photoresponse Approaching 1000a??nm
摘要： To enhance photoresponse of common-used perovskite materials in the near-infrared (NIR) region, a fused-ring electron acceptor (F8IC) with strong NIR absorption and high electron mobility was used to blend with a narrow-bandgap polymer donor (PTB7-Th) to construct organic bulk heterojunction (OBHJ), and this OBHJ was then integrated with the perovskite solar cells. The integrated perovskite/OBHJ solar cells exhibit strong photoresponse approaching 1000 nm and an ultrahigh short-circuit current density of 28.2 mA cm-2, which is much higher than the traditional perovskite solar cells and organic solar cells.
关键词： integrated solar cell,perovskite solar cell,ultrahigh photocurrent,NIR photoresponse,organic solar cell
更新于2025-09-23 15:19:57