Extension of stability in organic photovoltaic cells using UV/ozone-treated graphene sheets

Solar Energy Materials and Solar Cells

Volumn 109, Issue , 2013, Pages 148-154

  Kwon, Ki Chang ^a   Dong, Wan Jae ^b   Jung, Gwan Ho ^b   Ham, Juyoung ^b   Lee, Jong Lam ^b   Kim, Soo Young ^a  

^a Chung Ang University   (South Korea)

^b Pohang University of Science and Technology (POSTECH)   (South Korea)

Author keywords

Graphene; Hole extraction layer; Organic photovoltaic cell; Ultraviolet photoemission spectroscopy (UPS); X ray photoemission spectroscopy (XPS)

Indexed keywords

FUNCTIONALIZATIONS; GRAPHENE SHEETS; HOLE EXTRACTION LAYER; HUMID CONDITIONS; OPTIMIZED CONDITIONS; ORGANIC PHOTOVOLTAIC CELLS; ORGANIC PHOTOVOLTAICS; PEDOT:PSS; POLY(STYRENE SULFONATE); POLY-3 ,4-ETHYLENEDIOXYTHIOPHENE; ULTRAVIOLET PHOTOEMISSION SPECTROSCOPY; UV-OZONE; UV-OZONE TREATMENT; X RAY PHOTOEMISSION SPECTROSCOPY;

CELLS; CONDUCTING POLYMERS; CYTOLOGY; OZONE; OZONE LAYER; PHOTOELECTROCHEMICAL CELLS; PHOTOELECTRON SPECTROSCOPY; PHOTOVOLTAIC CELLS;

GRAPHENE;

EID: 84869873733     PISSN: 09270248     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.solmat.2012.10.017     Document Type: Article

References (40)

1. C.J. Barbec, S. Gowrisanker, J.J.M. Halls, D. Laird, S. Jia, and S.P. Williams Polymer-fullerene bulk-heterojunction solar cells Advanced Materials 22 2010 3839 3856
2. C.J. Brabec, N.S. Sariciftci, and J.C. Hummelen Plastic solar cells Advanced Functional Materials 11 2001 15 26
3. P.W.M. Blom, V.D. Mihailetchi, L.J.A. Koster, and D.E. Markov Device physics of polymer:fullerene bulk heterojunction solar cells Advanced Materials 19 2007 1551 1566
4. J.Y. Kim, S.H. Kim, H.-H. Lee, K. Lee, W. Ma, X. Gong, and A.J. Heeger New architecture for high-efficiency polymer photovoltaic cells using solution-based titanium oxide as an optical spacer Advanced Materials 18 2006 572 576
5. W. Ma, C. Yang, X. Gong, K. Lee, and A.J. Heeger Thermally stable, efficient polymer solar cells with nanoscale control of the interpenetrating network morphology Advanced Functional Materials 15 2005 1617 1622
6. V. Shrotriya, G. Li, Y. Yao, C.-W. Chu, and Y. Yang Transition metal oxides as the buffer layer for polymer photovoltaic cells Applied Physics Letters 88 2006 073508-1 073508-3
7. M. Jorgensen, K. Norrman, S.A. Gevorgyan, T. Tromholt, B. Andreasen, and F.C. Krebs Stability of polymer solar cells Advanced Materials 24 2012 580 612
8. S.A. Gevorgyan, A.J. Medford, E. Bundgaard, S.B. Sapkota, H. Schleiermacher, B. Zimmermann, U. Würfel, A. Chafiq, M. Lira-Cantu, T. Swonke, M. Wagner, C.J. Brabec, O. Haillant, E. Voroshazi, T. Aernouts, R. Steim, J.A. Hauch, A. Elschner, M. Pannone, M. Xiao, A. Langzettel, D. Laird, M.T. Lloyd, T. Rath, E. Maier, G. Trimmel, M. Hermenau, T. Menke, K. Leo, R. Rösch, M. Seeland, H. Hoppe, T.J. Nagle, K.B. Burke, C.J. Fell, D. Vak, T.B. Singh, S.E. Watkins, Y. Galagan, A. Manor, E.A. Katz, T. Kim, K. Kim, P.M. Sommeling, W.J.H. Verhees, S.C. Veenstra, M. Riede, M.G. Christoforo, T. Currier, V. Shrotriya, G. Schwartz, and F.C. Krebs An inter-laboratory stability study of roll-to-roll coated flexible polymer solar modules Solar Energy Materials and Solar Cells 95 2011 1398 1416
9. R. Sondergaard, M. Hösel, D. Angmo, T.T. Larsen-Olsen, and F.C. Krebs Roll-to-roll fabrication of polymer solar cells Materials Today 15 2012 36 49
10. F.C. Krebs, J. Fyenbo, D.M. Tanenbaum, S.A. Gevorgyan, R. Andriessen, B. van Remoortere, Y. Galagan, and M. Jorgensen The OE-A OPV demonstrator anno domini 2011 Energy and Environmental Science 4 2011 4116 4123
11. H. Ma, H.-L. Yip, F. Huang, and A.K.-Y. Jen Interface engineering for organic electronics Advanced Functional Materials 20 2010 1371 1388
12. G. Li, C.-W. Chu, V. Shrotriya, J. Huang, and Y. Yang Efficient inverted polymer solar cells Applied Physics Letters 88 2006 253503-1 253503-3
13. 3/Ag/Al/Ca intermediate layer Applied Physics Letters 97 2010 053303-1 053303-3
14. M.D. Irwin, D.B. Buchholz, A.W. Hains, R.P.H. Chang, and T.J. Marks P-type semiconducting nickel oxide as an efficiency-enhancing anode interfacial layer in polymer bulk-heterojunction solar cells Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 105 2008 2783 2787
15. 3 thin films as a hole-injection layer for organic solar cells ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces 3 2011 3244 3247
16. Y. Wang, W. Wei, X. Liu, and Y. Gu Research progress on polymer heterojunction solar cells Solar Energy Materials and Solar Cells 98 2012 129 145
17. M. Jorgensen, K. Norrman, and F.C. Krebs Stability/degradation of polymer solar cells Solar Energy Materials and Solar Cells 92 2008 686 714
18. S.-S. Li, K.-H. Tu, C.-C. Lin, C.-W. Chen, and M. Chhowalla Solution-processable graphene oxide as an efficient hole transport layer in polymer solar cells ACS Nano 4 2010 3169 3174
19. Y. Park, K.S. Choi, and S.Y. Kim Graphene oxide/PEDOT:PSS and reduced graphene oxide/PEDOT:PSS hole extraction layers in organic photovoltaic cells Physica Status Solidi A-Applications and Materials Science 209 2012 1363 1368
20. Y. Gao, H.-L. Yip, K.-S. Chen, K.M. O'Malley, O. Acton, Y. Sun, G. Ting, H. Chen, and A.K.-Y. Jen Surface doping of conjugated polymers by graphene oxide and its application for organic electronic devices Advanced Materials 23 2011 1903 1908
21. J. Liu, Y. Xue, Y. Gao, D. Yu, M. Durstock, and L. Dai Hole and electron extraction layers based on graphene oxide derivatives for high-performance bulk heterojunction solar cells Advanced Materials 24 2012 2228 2233
22. K.S. Kim, Y. Zhao, H. Jang, S.Y. Lee, J.M. Kim, K.S. Kim, J.-H. Ahn, P. Kim, J.-Y. Choi, and B.H. Hong Large-scale pattern growth of graphene films for stretchable transparent electrodes Nature 457 2009 706 710
23. A. Reina, X. Jia, J. Ho, D. Nezich, H. Son, V. Bulovic, M.S. Dersselhaus, and J. Kong Large area, few-layer graphene films on arbitrary substrates by chemical vapor deposition Nano Letters 9 2009 30 35
24. X. Li, W. Cai, J. An, S. Kim, J. Nah, D. Yang, R. Piner, A. Velamakanni, I. Jung, E. Tutuc, S.K. Banerjee, L. Colombo, and R.S. Ruoff Large-area synthesis of high-quality and uniform graphene films on copper foils Science 324 2009 1312 1314
25. K.C. Kwon, K.S. Choi, and S.Y. Kim Increased work function in few-layer graphene sheets via metal chloride doping Advanced Functional Materials 22 2012 4724 4731
26. H.-J. Shin, W.M. Choi, D. Choi, G.H. Han, S.-M. Yoon, H.-K. Park, S.-W. Kim, Y.W. Jin, S.Y. Lee, J.M. Kim, J.-Y. Choi, and Y.H. Lee Control of electronic structure of graphene by various dopants and their effects on a nanogenerator Journal of the American Chemical Society 132 2010 15603 15609
27. F. Güneş, H.-J. Shin, C. Biswas, G.H. Han, E.S. Kim, S.J. Chae, J.-Y. Choi, and Y.H. Lee Layer-by-layer doping of few-layer graphene film ACS Nano 4 2010 4595 4600
28. J. Park, W.H. Lee, S. Huh, S.H. Sim, S.B. Kim, K. Cho, B.H. Hong, and K.S. Kim Work-function engineering of graphene electrodes by self-assembled monolayers for high-performance organic field-effect transistors Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters 2 2011 841 845
29. S. Huh, J. Park, Y.S. Kim, K.S. Kim, B.H. Hong, and J.-M. Nam UV/ozone-oxidized large-scale graphene platform with large chemical enhancement in surface-enhanced Raman scattering ACS Nano 5 2011 9799 9806
30. N. Leconte, J. Moser, P. Ordejón, H. Tao, A. Lherbier, A. Bachtold, F. Alsina, C.M.S. Torres, J.-C. Charlier, and S. Roche Damaging graphene with ozone treatment: a chemically tunable metal-insulator transition ACS Nano 4 2010 4033 4038
31. K.S. Choi, Y. Park, K.C. Kwon, J. Kim, C.K. Kim, S.Y. Kim, K. Hong, and J.-L. Lee Reduced graphite oxide-indium tin oxide hybrid materials for use as a transparent electrode Journal of the Electrochemical Society 158 2011 J231 J235
32. S.Y. Kim, K. Hong, and J.-L. Lee In-situ determination of interface dipole energy between tris(8-hydroxyquinoline) aluminum and MgO coated Al in inverted top-emitting organic light-emitting diodes Japanese Journal of Applied Physics 50 2011 101602-1 101602-4
33. 2 plasma treatments on surface properties of metals Journal of Applied Physics 103 2008 076101-1 076101-3
34. S.Y. Kim, K. Kim, K. Hong, and J.-L. Lee Investigation of metal peel-off technique for the fabrication of flexible organic light-emitting diodes Journal of the Electrochemical Society 156 2009 J253 J257
35. H. Park, P.R. Brown, V. Bulovic, and J. Kong Graphene as transparent conducting electrodes in organic photovoltaics: Studies in graphene morphology, hole transporting layers, and counter electrodes Nano Letters 12 2012 133 140
36. M.O. Reese, S.A. Gevorgyan, M. Jorgensen, E. Bundgaard, S.R. Kurtz, D.S. Ginley, D.C. Olson, M.T. Lloyd, P. Morvillo, E.A. Katz, A. Elschner, O. Haillant, T.R. Currier, V. Shrotriya, M. Hermenau, M. Riede, K.R. Kirov, G. Trimmel, T. Rath, O. Inganäs, F. Zhang, M. Andersson, K. Tvingstedt, M. Lira-Cantu, D. Laird, C. McGuiness, S. Gowrisanker, M. Pannone, M. Xiao, J. Hauch, R. Steim, D.M. DeLongchamp, R. Rösch, H. Hoppe, N. Espinosa, A. Urbina, G. Yaman-Uzuoglu, J. Bonekamp, A.J.J.M. van Breemen, C. Girotto, E. Voroshazi, and F.C. Krebs Concensus stability testing protocols for organic photovoltaic materials and devices Solar Energy Materials and Solar Cells 95 2011 1253 1267
37. M.P. de Jong, L.J. van IJzendoorn, and M.J.A. de Voigt Stability of interface between indium-tin-oxide and poly(3,4-ethylenedioxythiophene)/ poly(styrenesulfonate) in polymer light-emitting diodes Applied Physics Letters 77 2000 2255 2257
38. T.-W. Lee, and Y. Chung Control of the surface composition of a conducting-polymer complex film to tune the work function Advanced Functional Materials 18 2008 2246 2252
39. A.M. Nardes, M. Kemerink, R.A.J. Janssen, J.A.M. Bastiaansen, N.M.M. Kiggen, B.M.W. Langeveld, A.J.J.M. van Breemen, and M.M. de Kok Microscopic understanding of the anisotropic conductivity of PEDOT:PSS thin films Advanced Materials 19 2007 1196 1200
40. M. Kemerink, S. Timpanaro, M.M. de Kok, E.A. Meulenkamp, and F.J. Touwslager Three-dimensional inhomogeneities in PEDOT:PSS films Journal of Physical Chemistry B 108 2004 18820 18825