Connecting scanning tunneling spectroscopy to device performance for polymer:fullerene organic solar cells

Scanning tunneling microscopy and spectroscopy have been used to measure the local photovoltaic performance of prototypical polymer:fullerene (MDMO-PPV:PCBM) bulk heterojunction films with ∼10 nm resolution. Fullerene-rich clusters are found to act as sinks, extracting electrons from a shell layer o...

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Hauptverfasser: Maturová, Klára (VerfasserIn) , Janssen, René A. J. (VerfasserIn) , Kemerink, Martijn (VerfasserIn)
Dokumenttyp: Article (Journal)
Sprache:Englisch
Veröffentlicht: February 25, 2010
In: ACS nano
Year: 2010, Jahrgang: 4, Heft: 3, Pages: 1385-1392
ISSN:1936-086X
DOI:10.1021/nn100039r
Online-Zugang:Verlag, Volltext: https://doi.org/10.1021/nn100039r
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Verfasserangaben:Klára Maturová, René A.J. Janssen, and Martijn Kemerink
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Zusammenfassung:Scanning tunneling microscopy and spectroscopy have been used to measure the local photovoltaic performance of prototypical polymer:fullerene (MDMO-PPV:PCBM) bulk heterojunction films with ∼10 nm resolution. Fullerene-rich clusters are found to act as sinks, extracting electrons from a shell layer of a homogeneously mixed polymer:fullerene matrix, surrounding the fullerene cluster. The experimental results were quantitatively modeled with a drift-diffusion model that in first order accounts for the specific morphology. The same model has subsequently been used to calculate performance indicators of macroscopic solar cells as a function of film composition and characteristic size of the phase separation. As such, a first step has been set toward a quantitative correlation between nanoscopic and macroscopic device photovoltaic performance.
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ISSN:1936-086X
DOI:10.1021/nn100039r