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American Institute of Physics, Applied Physics Letters, 21(85), p. 5081

DOI: 10.1063/1.1825070

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Infrared photocurrent spectral response from plastic solar cell with low-band-gap polyfluorene and fullerene derivative

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Abstract

Plastic solar cells were fabricated using a low-band-gap alternating copolymer of fluorene and a donor–acceptor–donor moiety (APFO-Green1), blended with [6,6]-phenyl-C61-butyric acid methylester or 3′-(3,5-Bis-trifluoromethylphenyl)-1′-(4-nitrophenyl)pyrazolino[60]fullerene as electron acceptors. The polymer shows optical absorption in two wavelength ranges from 300<λ<500 nm and 650<λ<1000 nm. Devices based on APFO-Green1 blended with the later fullerene exhibit an outstanding photovoltaic behavior at the infrared range, where the external quantum efficiency is as high as 8.4% at 840 nm and 7% at 900 nm, while the onset of photogeneration is found at 1 μm. A photocurrent density of 1.76 mA∕cm2, open-circuit voltage of 0.54 V, and power conversion efficiency of 0.3% are achieved under the illumination of AM1.5 (1000 W∕m2) from a solar simulator.