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Article Dans Une Revue ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces Année : 2015

Solution-Processed Small-Molecule Bulk Heterojunctions: Leakage Currents and the Dewetting Issue for Inverted Solar Cells

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In organic photovoltaic (PV) devices based on solution-processed small molecules, we report here that the physicochemical properties of the substrate are critical for achieving high-performances organic solar cells. Three different substrates were tested: ITO coated with PEDOT:PSS, ZnO sol-gel, and ZnO nanoparticles. PV performances are found to be low when the ZnO nanoparticles layer is used. This performance loss is attributed to the formation of many dewetting points in the active layer, because of a relatively high roughness of the ZnO nanoparticles layer, compared to the other layers. We successfully circumvented this phenomenon by adding a small quantity of polystyrene (PS) in the active layer. The introduction of PS improves the quality of film forming and reduces the dark currents of solar cells. Using this method, high-efficiency devices were achieved, even in the case of substrates with higher roughness.
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hal-01280407 , version 1 (29-02-2016)

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Elodie Destouesse, Sylvain Chambon, Stéphanie Courtel, Lionel Hirsch, Guillaume Wantz. Solution-Processed Small-Molecule Bulk Heterojunctions: Leakage Currents and the Dewetting Issue for Inverted Solar Cells. ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces, 2015, 7 (44), pp.24663-24669. ⟨10.1021/acsami.5b06964⟩. ⟨hal-01280407⟩
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