Low-temperature photo-activated inorganic electron transport layers for flexible inverted polymer solar cells

Jung Wook Lee; Soo Hyoung Lee; Yong Hoon Kim; Sung Kyu Park

doi:10.1007/s00339-014-8407-2

Low-temperature photo-activated inorganic electron transport layers for flexible inverted polymer solar cells

Jung Wook Lee
, Soo Hyoung Lee
, Yong Hoon Kim^*
, Sung Kyu Park

^*Corresponding author for this work

Division of Chemical Engineering

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A simple and versatile route of forming sol-gel-derived metal oxide n-type electron transport layers (ETLs) for flexible inverted polymer solar cells (PSCs) is proposed using low-temperature photochemical activation process. The photochemical activation, which is induced by deep ultraviolet irradiation on sol-gel films, allows formation of metal oxide n-type ETLs such as zinc oxide (ZnO) and indium gallium zinc oxide films at a low temperature. Compared to poly(3-hexylthiophene)/phenyl-C₆₁-butyric acid methyl ester inverted PSCs with thermally annealed ZnO ETLs (optimized efficiency of 3.26 ± 0.03 %), the inverted PSCs with photo-activated ZnO ETLs showed an improved efficiency of 3.60 ± 0.02 %. The enhanced photovoltaic property is attributed to efficient charge collection from low overall series resistance and high surface area-to-geometric area ratio by the photo-activated ZnO ETLs.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	2087-2093
Number of pages	7
Journal	Applied Physics A: Materials Science and Processing
Volume	116
Issue number	4
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/s00339-014-8407-2
State	Published - 2014.09

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