Influence of annealing and interfacial roughness on the performance of bilayer donor/acceptor polymer photovoltaic devices

Advanced Functional Materials

Volumn 20, Issue 24, 2010, Pages 4329-4337

  Yan, Hongping ^b   Swaraj, Sufal ^b,e   Wang, Cheng ^b,f   Hwang, Inchan ^a,d   Greenham, Neil C ^a   Groves, Chris ^c   Ade, Harald ^b   McNeill, Christopher R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^b NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c DURHAM UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^e SYNCHROTRON SOLEIL   (France)

^f LAWRENCE BERKELEY NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

conjugated polymer; device physics; Monte Carlo method; polymer solar cell; resonant soft X ray reflectivity

Indexed keywords

ANNEALING TEMPERATURES; BENZOTHIADIAZOLES; BI-LAYER; BULK MOBILITY; CHARGE SEPARATIONS; CONSTITUENT MATERIALS; CURRENT VOLTAGE CURVE; DEVICE CHARACTERIZATION; DEVICE EFFICIENCY; DEVICE PERFORMANCE; DEVICE PHYSICS; DONOR/ACCEPTOR INTERFACE; ELECTRON HOLE PAIRS; HETEROJUNCTION DEVICES; HIGH PERFORMANCE DEVICES; INTERFACE ROUGHNESS; INTERFACE STRUCTURES; INTERFACIAL AREAS; INTERFACIAL CHARGE; INTERFACIAL ROUGHNESS; INTERFACIAL STRUCTURES; INTERFACIAL WIDTH; MONTE CARLO; MONTE CARLO SIMULATION; MONTE CARLO STUDY; NON EQUILIBRIUM; ORGANIC PHOTOVOLTAICS; PHOTOLUMINESCENCE QUENCHING; POLYFLUORENE COPOLYMER; POLYMER PHOTOVOLTAIC DEVICE; POLYMER SOLAR CELL; POLYMER SOLAR CELLS; SHARP INTERFACE; SHORT-CIRCUIT CONDITIONS; SOFT-X-RAY REFLECTIVITY; UNANNEALED FILMS; X RAY REFLECTIVITY;

ANNEALING; CARRIER MOBILITY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EQUIPMENT; EXCITONS; HETEROJUNCTIONS; INTERFACES (MATERIALS); MULTILAYERS; PHOTOLUMINESCENCE; PHOTOVOLTAIC EFFECTS; QUENCHING; REFLECTION; SOLAR CELLS; X RAYS;

MONTE CARLO METHODS;

EID: 78650369312     PISSN: 1616301X     EISSN: 16163028     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/adfm.201001292     Document Type: Article

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