Probing the bulk morphology of fullerene-free organic solar cell blends using SANS

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The aim of this project is to develop an understanding of the relationships between the processing, nanoscale structure and device performance of bulk heterojunction, fullerene-free organic solar cells (OSCs). Optimised processing of OSCs has the potential to offer a low-cost, solution-processible, renewable energy source. We have fabricated fullerene-free OSCs based on a blend of ITIC, a small molecule non-fullerene acceptor and PBDB-T, a recently developed donor polymer, with efficiencies as high as 7.7%. We will build upon this work using SANS, to investigate the dependence of the properties of the phase separated nanoscale domains in non-fullerene photovoltaic blends, on processing factors such as thermal annealing, solvent annealing, casting solvent and blend ratio.

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DOI https://doi.org/10.5286/ISIS.E.99690047
Metadata Access https://icatisis.esc.rl.ac.uk/oaipmh/request?verb=GetRecord&metadataPrefix=oai_datacite&identifier=oai:icatisis.esc.rl.ac.uk:inv/99690047
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Creator Miss Mary O'Kane; Dr Adam Washington; Miss Emma Spooner; Mr Francesco Bastianini; Dr Gabriel Bernardo; Dr Steve King; Professor Richard Jones; Dr Rachel Kilbride; Professor David Lidzey; Dr Andrew Parnell
Publisher ISIS Neutron and Muon Source
Publication Year 2021
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 Chemistry; Natural Sciences; Physics
Temporal Coverage Begin 2018-11-27T09:00:00Z
Temporal Coverage End 2018-12-03T17:08:16Z