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Elsevier, Solar Energy Materials and Solar Cells, (130), p. 474-480

DOI: 10.1016/j.solmat.2014.07.050

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Inkjet printing processing conditions for bulk-heterojunction solar cells using two high-performing conjugated polymer donors

Journal article published in 2014 by Felix Hermerschmidt, Paris Papagiorgis, Achilleas Savva, Constantinos Christodoulou, Grigorios Itskos, Stelios A. Choulis ORCID
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Abstract

We report the processing conditions for inkjet-printed active layers of organic photovoltaic (OPV) devices comprising bulk-heterojunction blends of the low bandgap conjugated polymer poly[(4,4 0 -bis(2-ethylhexyl) dithieno[3,2-b:2 0 ,3 0 -d]silole)-2,6-diyl-alt-(4,7-bis(2-thienyl)-2,1,3-benzothiadiazole)-5,5 0 -diyl] (Si-PCPDTBT) as well as poly[N-9 0 -hepta-decanyl-2,7-carbazole-alt-5,5-(4 0 ,7 0 -di-2-thienyl-2 0 ,1 0 ,3 0 -benzothiadiazole)] (PCDTBT) used as electron donors with [6,6]-phenyl-C71-butyric acid methyl ester (PC 70 BM) as electron acceptor. By controlling the inkjet printing processing conditions, we gain a significant improvement in device power conversion efficiency (PCE) to previously reported work using these materials. We obtain Si-PCPDTBT:fullerene and PCDTBT:fullerene-based inkjet-printed OPVs with power conversion efficiency of 3% and 4%, respectively.