Nanostructured Electron-Selective Interlayer for Efficient Inverted Organic Solar Cells

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• 作者：Jiyun Song ; Jaehoon Lim ; Donggu Lee ; M. Thambidurai ; Jun Young Kim ; Myeongjin Park ; Hyung-Jun Song ; Seonghoon Lee ; Kookheon Char ; Changhee Lee
• 刊名：ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces
• 出版年：2015
• 出版时间：August 26, 2015
• 年：2015
• 卷：7
• 期：33
• 页码：18460-18466
• 全文大小：408K
• ISSN：1944-8252

文摘

We report a unique nanostructured electron-selective interlayer comprising of In-doped ZnO (ZnO:In) and vertically aligned CdSe tetrapods (TPs) for inverted polymer:fullerene bulkheterojunction (BHJ) solar cells. With dimension-controlled CdSe TPs, the direct inorganic electron transport pathway is provided, resulting in the improvement of the short circuit current and fill factor of devices. We demonstrate that the enhancement is attributed to the roles of CdSe TPs that reduce the recombination losses between the active layer and buffer layer, improve the hole-blocking as well as electron-transporting properties, and simultaneously improve charge collection characteristics. As a result, the power conversion efficiency of PTB7:PC₇₀BM based solar cell with nanostructured CdSe TPs increases to 7.55%. We expect this approach can be extended to a general platform for improving charge extraction in organic solar cells.