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Title: | Interface and Energy Efficiency of Organic Photovoltaics |
Authors: | Zhao, Xinxin Cindy |
Advisor: | Xu, Gu Adrian Kitai and Joey Kish |
Department: | Materials Science and Engineering |
Keywords: | Interface;Energy Efficiency;Organic Photovoltaics;Polymer and Organic Materials;Semiconductor and Optical Materials;Polymer and Organic Materials |
Publication Date: | Oct-2013 |
Abstract: | <p>As a promising new technology, organic photovoltaics (OPVs) have been widely studied recently. To improve the device efficiency for commercial use of 10%, a number of attempts have been made in my research. The ultra-low frequency AC field was first employed, to align p/n polymers during fabrication. The resulting devices showed 15% increase in device efficiency, attributed to the optimized morphology and enlarged p/n interface. During the improvement process, dual nanostructures of the polymers were found, the highly oriented layer and the randomly distributed part, which provided a better understanding of the OPVs under the AC field alignment.</p> <p>The OPV stability was then studied by impedance measurements, to track multi-interface degradation without breaking the device. It was found the degradation of p/n junction was attributed to the deteriorated morphology and oxidized polymers, whereas the semiconductor/metal interface changed by producing metal oxides as degradation products.</p> <p>The dramatic contrast between the bilayer and bulk heterojunctions (BHJ) was at last investigated by capacitance measurements in vacuum. The existing models of the BHJs had difficulty explaining the higher overall capacitance, compared with that from the bilayer devices. The resulting puzzling charge density was clarified by separating the measured capacitance into two parallel components, one from the space charge of the proposed Schottky junction, and the other from the dark dipoles presumably formed spontaneously across the donor/acceptor interface.</p> |
URI: | http://hdl.handle.net/11375/13299 |
Identifier: | opendissertations/8119 9215 4557400 |
Appears in Collections: | Open Access Dissertations and Theses |
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