- Title
- Improving photovoltaic properties of P3HT:IC60BA through the incorporation of small molecules
- Creator
- Xu, Binrui; Sai-Anand, Gopalan; Gopalan, Anantha-Iyengar; Qiao, Qiquan; Kang, Shin-Won
- Relation
- Polymers Vol. 10, Issue 2, p. 1-10
- Publisher Link
- http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/polym10020121
- Publisher
- MDPI AG
- Resource Type
- journal article
- Date
- 2018
- Description
- We investigated the role of a functional solid additive, 2,3-dihydroxypyridine (DHP), in influencing the optoelectronic, morphological, structural and photovoltaic properties of bulk-heterojunction-based polymer solar cells (BHJ PSCs) fabricated using poly(3-hexylthiophene): indene-C 60 bisadduct (P3HT:IC60BA) photoactive medium. A dramatic increase in the power conversion efficiency (~20%) was witnessed for the BHJ PSCs treated with DHP compared to the pristine devices. A plausible explanation describing the alignment of pyridine moieties of DHP with the indene side groups of IC60BA is presented with a view to improving the performance of the BHJ PSCs via improved crystalline order and hydrophobicity changes.
- Subject
- bulk-heterojunction; polymer solar cells; morphology; additive; ternary blend; SDG 7; Sustainable Development Goals
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/1453765
- Identifier
- uon:44724
- Identifier
- ISSN:2073-4360
- Rights
- © 2018 by the authors. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).
- Language
- eng
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