Phase Separation in Organic Photovoltaic Cells

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Organic photovoltaic (OPV) cells have the potential to be the basis of a renewable energy source that is inexpensive and portable. Current state-of-the-art solution-processed OPV cells are based on the so-called bulk heterojunction (BHJ) architecture, consisting of an active layer that is a ¿blend¿ between a conjugated polymer (electron donor D) and a fullerene (electron acceptor A) forming a nanoscale interpenetrating network structure due to self-organized phase separation. This organization is critical to device performance and in this experiment we propose to use SANS to study the phase separation and aggregation in cells comprising different donor and acceptor materials fabricated using two methods - blended materials and sequential bilayer formation. Annealing conditions will also be investigated in order to understand the factors that lead to optimized device performance.

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DOI https://doi.org/10.5286/ISIS.E.24088336
Metadata Access https://icatisis.esc.rl.ac.uk/oaipmh/request?verb=GetRecord&metadataPrefix=oai_datacite&identifier=oai:icatisis.esc.rl.ac.uk:inv/24088336
Provenance
Creator Professor Ian Gentle; Professor Paul Burn; Dr Kwan Lee; Mr Hamish Cavaye; Dr Kevin Jack; Dr Charlotte Madsen
Publisher ISIS Neutron and Muon Source
Publication Year 2014
Rights CC-BY Attribution 4.0 International; https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
OpenAccess true
Contact isisdata(at)stfc.ac.uk
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Resource Type Dataset
Discipline Photon- and Neutron Geosciences
Temporal Coverage Begin 2011-11-29T12:57:36Z
Temporal Coverage End 2011-12-04T10:04:35Z