Thin Film Morphology in Polymer-Fullerene Bulk-Heterojunctions Materials

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A promising class of materials for solar energy is conjugated polymer (CP)-fullerene mixtures. They offer the future potential for replacing current inorganic systems with cheaper alternatives which can be created in flexible, wide area devices. These CP-fullerene systems are bulk-heterojunctions systems due to the phase separation of the two moieties. Such heterojunctions can potentially have high device efficiency if the interfacial interactions between CP and fullerenes are controlled to form interconnected phases and optimal interface structures in thin film devices. Despite significant device charaterization and optimization there is a lack of fundamental information about the phase behaviour of CP-fullerenes bulk heterojunctions in thin film devices. We wish to address this area by studying the thin phase behaviour of a series of model CP-fullerene systems.

Identifier
DOI https://doi.org/10.5286/ISIS.E.24079386
Metadata Access https://icatisis.esc.rl.ac.uk/oaipmh/request?verb=GetRecord&metadataPrefix=oai_datacite&identifier=oai:icatisis.esc.rl.ac.uk:inv/24079386
Provenance
Creator Dr David Bucknall; Professor Alamgir Karim
Publisher ISIS Neutron and Muon Source
Publication Year 2013
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 2010-08-05T07:28:21Z
Temporal Coverage End 2010-08-08T08:17:00Z