Investigation into the effect of post-annealing on inverted polymer solar cells

Rira Kang; Seung Hwan Oh; Seok In Na; Tae Soo Kim; Dong Yu Kim

doi:10.1016/j.solmat.2013.08.026

Investigation into the effect of post-annealing on inverted polymer solar cells

Rira Kang
, Seung Hwan Oh
, Seok In Na
, Tae Soo Kim
, Dong Yu Kim^*

^*Corresponding author for this work

Department of Flexible and Printable Electronics

Gwangju Institute of Science and Technology
Korea Atomic Energy Research Institute

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Abstract

The work-function of indium tin oxide (ITO) electrodes was tuned with an interfacial dipole layer (WPF-oxy-F) to reverse the polarity in polymer solar cells (PSCs) with an inverted structure. The photoactive layer was based on poly(3-hexylthiophene) (P3HT) and [6,6]-phenyl-C61-butyric acid methyl ester (PCBM). Silver (Ag) and poly(3,4-ethylenedioxythiophene):poly(styrenesulfonate) (PEDOT:PSS) were used as the top anode. The optimized conditions for the fabricated I-PSCs included an open-circuit voltage (V_oc) of 0.68 V, a fill factor (FF) of 64%, and a power conversion efficiency (PCE) of 3.86% through post-annealing at 170 C. The high performance of I-PSC is due partly to the improved interfacial contact at active/PEDOT:PSS and mainly to the increase of the work-function of annealed PEDOT:PSS/Ag at 170 C for 30 min. Here, we investigated the effect of post-annealing on I-PSC devices by carrying out various annealing sequences.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	131-135
Number of pages	5
Journal	Solar Energy Materials and Solar Cells
Volume	120
Issue number	PART A
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.solmat.2013.08.026
State	Published - 2014

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Keywords

Conjugated polyelectrolyte
Inverted polymer solar cells
Post-annealing
Thermal annealing treatment
Water-soluble polyfluorene

Quacquarelli Symonds(QS) Subject Topics

Materials Science
Engineering - Electrical & Electronic

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