Charge transport in PffBT4T-2OD and in the PffBT4T-2OD:PC71BM composite: a muon spin spectroscopy study

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PffBT4T-2OD is one of the most recent and most successful low bandgap conjugated polymers used in organic photovoltaics - PffBT4T-2OD based OPV devices have power conversion efficiencies PCE~10%. However, and contrary to other bulk-heterojunction systems based on polymers such as P3HT and PCDTBT which show their best PCE values when the thickness of the active BHJ layer is ~100nm, OPV devices based on PffBT4T-2OD show their maximum PCEs when the active layer thickness is ~300nm. This particular property of PffBT4T-2OD based devices has been attributed to the fact that PffBT4T-2OD exhibits higher crystallinity which most likely confers it a higher hole-mobility than that observed in other conjugated polymers. However, as far as we know, the measurement of the charge mobility of PffBT4T-2OD is still unreported on the literature. In this project we propose to measure it using muons.

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DOI https://doi.org/10.5286/ISIS.E.86392295
Metadata Access https://icatisis.esc.rl.ac.uk/oaipmh/request?verb=GetRecord&metadataPrefix=oai_datacite&identifier=oai:icatisis.esc.rl.ac.uk:inv/86392295
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Creator Professor Richard Jones; Dr Andrew Parnell; Professor David Lidzey; Dr Steve King; Dr Peter Baker; Dr Gabriel Bernardo
Publisher ISIS Neutron and Muon Source
Publication Year 2020
Rights CC-BY Attribution 4.0 International; https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
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Contact isisdata(at)stfc.ac.uk
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Resource Type Dataset
Discipline Photon- and Neutron Geosciences
Temporal Coverage Begin 2017-05-14T08:30:00Z
Temporal Coverage End 2017-05-16T08:30:00Z