Highly doped fullerene C60 thin films as transparent stand alone top electrode for organic solar cells

Solar Energy Materials and Solar Cells

Volumn 118, Issue , 2013, Pages 165-170

  Schubert, Sylvio ^a   Kim, Yong Hyun ^a   Menke, Torben ^a   Fischer, Axel ^a   Timmreck, Ronny ^a   Müller Meskamp, Lars ^a   Leo, Karl ^a  

^a DRESDEN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Organic photovoltaics; Solar cells Fullerene C60; Transparent electrode

Indexed keywords

EQUIVALENT CIRCUIT MODEL; ORGANIC PHOTOVOLTAIC CELLS; ORGANIC PHOTOVOLTAICS; PHOTOVOLTAIC APPLICATIONS; POWER CONVERSION EFFICIENCIES; REFRACTIVE INDEX MISMATCH; SOLAR CELLS-FULLERENE C60; TRANSPARENT ELECTRODE;

DOPING (ADDITIVES); ELECTRODES; FULLERENES; OPTIMIZATION; PHOTOVOLTAIC CELLS;

SOLAR CELLS;

EID: 84883764963     PISSN: 09270248     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.solmat.2013.08.017     Document Type: Article

References (26)

1. A. Anctil, C.W. Babbitt, R.P. Raffaelle, and B.J. Landi Cumulative energy demand for small molecule and polymer photovoltaics Progress in Photovoltaics: Research and Applications 2012 10.1002/pip.2226 (in press)
2. Heliatek press release, 16 January 2013, Heliatek Consolidates its Technology Leadership by Establishing a New World Record for Organic Solar Technology with a Cell Efficiency of 12%, 〈www.heliatek. comâŒ.
3. A. Feltrin, and A. Freundlich Material considerations for terawatt level deployment of photovoltaics, Renewable Energy 33 2008 180 185 (Pubitemid 350180413)
4. K.A. Sierros, N.J. Morris, K. Ramji, and D.R. Cairns Stress-corrosion cracking of indium tin oxide coated polyethylene terephthalate for flexible optoelectronic devices Thin Solid Films 517 2009 2590 2595
5. G. Gu, V. Bulovic, P.E. Burrows, S.R. Forrest, and M.E. Thompson Transparent organic light emitting devices Applied Physics Letters 68 1996 2606 2608 (Pubitemid 126683842)
6. H.K. Kim, D.G. Kim, K.S. Lee, M.S. Huh, S.H. Jeong, K.I. Kim, and T.Y. Seong Plasma damage-free sputtering of indium tin oxide cathode layers for top-emitting organic light-emitting diodes Applied Physics Letters 86 2005 183503- 1 183503-3
7. S. Schubert, J. Meiss, L. Müller-Meskamp, and K. Leo Improvement of transparent metal top electrodes for organic solar cells by introducing a high surface energy seed layer Advanced Energy Materials 4 2013 438 443
8. J.-Y. Lee, S.T. Connor, Y. Cui, and P. Peumans Solution-Processed Metal Nanowire Mesh Transparent Electrodes Nano Letters 8 2008 689 692 (Pubitemid 351346040)
9. Y.H. Kim, C. Sachse, M.L. Machala, C. May, L. Müller-Meskamp, and K. Leo Highly conductive PEDOT:PSS electrode with optimized solvent and thermal post-treatment for ITO-free organic solar cells Advanced Functional Materials 21 2011 1076 1081
10. D.S. Hecht, L. Hu, and G. Irvin Emerging transparent electrodes based on thin films of carbon nanotubes, graphene, and metallic nanostructures Advanced Materials 23 2011 1482 1513
11. S. Bae, H. Kim, Y. Lee, X. Xu, J.S. Park, Y. Zheng, J. Balakrishnan, T. Lei, H.R. Kim, and Y.I. Song Roll-to-roll production of 30-inch graphene films for transparent electrodes Nature Nanotechnology 5 2010 574 579
12. Y. Wang, S.W. Tong, X.F. Xu, B. Özyilmaz, and K.P. Loh Interface engineering of layer-by-layer stacked graphene anodes for high-performance organic solar cells Advanced Materials 23 2011 1514 1518
13. Y.-H. Kim, L. Müller-Meskamp, A.A. Zakhidov, C. Sachse, J. Meiss, J. Bikova, A. Cook, Anvar A. Zakhidov, and K. Leo Semi-transparent small molecule organic solar cells with laminated free-standing carbon nanotube top electrodes Solar Energy Materials and Solar Cells 96 2012 244 250
14. M. Zhang, S. Fang, A.A. Zakhidov, S.B. Lee, A.E. Aliev, C.D. Williams, K.R. Atkinson, and R.H. Baughman Strong, Transparent, Multifunctional, Carbon Nanotube Sheets Science 309 2005 1215 1219 (Pubitemid 41170909)
15. M. Yamaguchi, L. Pan, S. Akita, and Y. Nakayama Effect of residual acetylene gas on growth of vertically aligned carbon nanotubes Japanese Journal of Applied Physics 47 2008 1937 1940
16. X. Huang, Z. Zeng, Z. Fan, J. Liu, and H. Zhang Graphene-based electrodes Advanced Materials 24 2012 5979 6004
17. S. Pang, Y. Hernandez, X. Feng, and K. Müllen Graphene as transparent electrode material for organic electronics Advanced Materials 23 2011 2779 2795
18. H. Li, B.C.K. Tee, J.J. Cha, Y. Cui, J.W. Chung, S.Y. Lee, and Z. Bao High-mobility field-effect transistors from large-area solution-grown aligned C60 single crystals Journal of the American Chemical Society 134 2012 2760 2765
19. S. Pfuetzner, C. Mickel, J. Jankowski, M. Hein, J. Meiss, C. Schuenemann, C. Elschner, A.A. Levin, B. Rellinghaus, K. Leo, and M. Riede The influence of substrate heating on morphology and layer growth in C60:ZnPc bulk heterojunction solar cells Organic Electronics 12 2011 435 441
20. S. Pfuetzner, J. Meiss, A. Petrich, M. Riede, and K. Leo Improved bulk heterojunction organic solar cells employing C70 fullerenes Applied Physics Letters 94 2009 223307-1 223307-3
21. K. Harada, T. Edura, and C. Adachi Nanocrystal growth and improved performance of small molecule bulk heterojunction solar cells composed of a blend of chloroaluminum phthalocyanine and C70 Applied Physics Express 3 2010 121602-1 121602-3
22. C.J. Brabec, A. Cravino, D. Meissner, N.S. Sariciftci, T. Fromherz, M.T. Rispens, L. Sanchez, and J.C. Hummelen Origin of the open circuit voltage of plastic solar cells Advanced Functional Materials 11 2001 374 380 (Pubitemid 33050758)
23. Y.H. Huh, and B. Park Interface-engineering additives of poly(oxyethylene tridecyl ether) for low-band gap polymer solar cells consisting of PCDTBT:PCBM70 bulk-heterojunction layers Optics Express 21 2013 146 156
24. G. Li, V. Shrotriya, Y. Yao, and Y. Yang Investigation of annealing effects and film thickness dependence of polymer solar cells based on poly(3-hexylthiophene) Journal of Applied Physics 98 2005 043704-1 043704-5
25. 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 (Pubitemid 41454589)
26. T. Menke, D. Ray, J. Meiss, K. Leo, and M. Riede In-situ conductivity and Seebeck measurements of highly efficient n-dopants in fullerene C60 Applied Physics Letters 100 2012 093304-1 093304-4