- Title
- Effect of a calcium cathode on water-based nanoparticulate solar cells
- Creator
- Vaughan, Ben; Stapleton, Andrew; Xue, Bofei; Sesa, Elisa; Zhou, Xiaojing; Bryant, Glenn; Belcher, Warwick; Dastoor, Paul
- Relation
- Applied Physics Letters Vol. 101, Issue 5
- Publisher Link
- http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.4737640
- Publisher
- American Institute of Physics
- Resource Type
- journal article
- Date
- 2012
- Description
- Water-based nanoparticulate (NP) and bulk heterojunction (BHJ) organic photovoltaic (OPV) devices based on blends of poly(9,9-dioctylfluorene-co-N,N-bis(4-butylphenyl)-N,Ndiphenyl-1,4-phenylenediamine) (PFB) and poly(9,9-dioctylfluorene-co-benzothiadiazole (F8BT) have been fabricated with aluminium and calcium/aluminium cathodes. The NP devices exhibit power conversion efficiencies (PCEs) that are double that of the corresponding BHJ device. Moreover, the addition of calcium into the cathode structure results in a dramatic increase in open circuit voltage and PCEs approaching 1% for water-based polyfluorene OPV devices.
- Subject
- cathodes; solar cells; materials fabrication; nanoparticles; excitons
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/1061809
- Identifier
- uon:17012
- Identifier
- ISSN:0003-6951
- Rights
- © American Institute of Physics
- Language
- eng
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