- Title
- Improving air-stability and performance of bulk heterojunction polymer solar cells using solvent engineered hole selective interlayer
- Creator
- Xu, Binrui; Sai-Anand, Gopalan; Jeong, Hyun-Min; Kim, Sae-Wan; Kim, Ju-Seong; Kwon, Jin-Beom; Kang, Shin-Won
- Relation
- Materials Vol. 11, Issue 7, no. 1143, p. 1-12
- Publisher Link
- http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ma11071143
- Publisher
- MDPI AG
- Resource Type
- journal article
- Date
- 2018
- Description
- In bulk heterojunction polymer solar cells (BHJ-PSCs), poly(3,4-ethylenedioxythiophene) doped with poly(styrene sulfonate) (PEDOT:PSS) is the most commonly used hole selective interlayer (HSIL). However, its acidity, hygroscopic nature, and the use of indium tin oxide (ITO) etching can degrade the overall photovoltaic performance and the air-stability of BHJ-PSCs. Solvent engineering is considered as a facile approach to overcome these issues. In this work, we engineered the HSIL using ethanol (ET) treated PEDOT:PSS to simultaneously enhance the photovoltaic performance properties and air-stability of the fabricated devices. We systematically investigated the influence of ET on the microstructural, morphological, interfacial characteristics of modified HSIL and photovoltaic characteristics of BHJ-PSCs. Compared with the BHJ-PSC with pristine PEDOT:PSS, a significant enhancement of power conversion efficiency (~17%) was witnessed for the BHJ-PSC with PEDOT:PSS-ET (v/v, 1:0.5). Consequently, the BHJ-PSC with PEDOT:PSS-ET (v/v, 1:0.5) as HSIL exhibited remarkably improved air-stability
- Subject
- solvent engineering; bulk-heterojunction; polymer solar cells; hole selective interlayer; SDG 7; Sustainable Development Goals
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/1453756
- Identifier
- uon:44723
- Identifier
- ISSN:1996-1944
- 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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