Abstract
AbstractNanostructured polymer‐based solar cells (PSCs) have emerged as a promising low‐cost alternative to conventional inorganic photovoltaic devices and are now a subject of intensive research both in academia and industry. For PSCs to become practical efficient devices, several issues should still be addressed, including further understanding of their operation and stability, which in turn are largely determined by the morphological organisation in the photoactive layer. The latter is typically a few hundred nanometres thick film and is a blend composed of two materials: the bulk heterojunction consisting of the electron donor and the electron acceptor. The main requirements for the morphology of efficient photoactive layers are nanoscale phase segregation for a high donor/acceptor interface area and hence efficient exciton dissociation, short and continuous percolation pathways of both components leading through the layer thickness to the corresponding electrodes for efficient charge transport and collection, and high crystallinity of both donor and acceptor materials for high charge mobility. In this paper, we review recent progress of our understanding on how the efficiency of a bulk heterojunction PSC largely depends on the local nanoscale volume organisation of the photoactive layer.magnified image
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Created | 15 years, 1 month ago (July 14, 2010, 2:33 a.m.) |
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Indexed | 1 year, 2 months ago (May 31, 2024, 9:54 a.m.) |
Issued | 14 years, 9 months ago (Oct. 25, 2010) |
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@article{van_Bavel_2010, title={On the Importance of Morphology Control in Polymer Solar Cells}, volume={31}, ISSN={1521-3927}, url={http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/marc.201000080}, DOI={10.1002/marc.201000080}, number={21}, journal={Macromolecular Rapid Communications}, publisher={Wiley}, author={van Bavel, Svetlana and Veenstra, Sjoerd and Loos, Joachim}, year={2010}, month=oct, pages={1835–1845} }