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    Cascade Organic Solar Cells

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    Authors
    Schlenker, Cody W.
    Barlier, Vincent S.
    Chin, Stephanie W.
    Whited, Matthew T.
    McAnally, R. Eric
    Forrest, Stephen R.
    Thompson, Mark E.
    KAUST Grant Number
    KUS-C1-015-21
    Date
    2011-09-27
    Permanent link to this record
    http://hdl.handle.net/10754/597737
    
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    Abstract
    We demonstrate planar organic solar cells consisting of a series of complementary donor materials with cascading exciton energies, incorporated in the following structure: glass/indium-tin-oxide/donor cascade/C 60/bathocuproine/Al. Using a tetracene layer grown in a descending energy cascade on 5,6-diphenyl-tetracene and capped with 5,6,11,12-tetraphenyl- tetracene, where the accessibility of the π-system in each material is expected to influence the rate of parasitic carrier leakage and charge recombination at the donor/acceptor interface, we observe an increase in open circuit voltage (Voc) of approximately 40% (corresponding to a change of +200 mV) compared to that of a single tetracene donor. Little change is observed in other parameters such as fill factor and short circuit current density (FF = 0.50 ± 0.02 and Jsc = 2.55 ± 0.23 mA/cm2) compared to those of the control tetracene-C60 solar cells (FF = 0.54 ± 0.02 and Jsc = 2.86 ± 0.23 mA/cm2). We demonstrate that this cascade architecture is effective in reducing losses due to polaron pair recombination at donor-acceptor interfaces, while enhancing spectral coverage, resulting in a substantial increase in the power conversion efficiency for cascade organic photovoltaic cells compared to tetracene and pentacene based devices with a single donor layer. © 2011 American Chemical Society.
    Citation
    Schlenker CW, Barlier VS, Chin SW, Whited MT, McAnally RE, et al. (2011) Cascade Organic Solar Cells. Chem Mater 23: 4132–4140. Available: http://dx.doi.org/10.1021/cm200525h.
    Sponsors
    We acknowledge generous financial support from Global Photonic Energy Corporation, from the Center for Advanced Molecular Photovoltaics (CAMP) (KUS-C1-015-21) of the King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST). The Center for Energy Nanoscience, an Energy Frontier Research Center funded by the U.S. Department of Energy, Office of Basic Energy Sciences under Award No. DE-SC0001013 is also acknowledged for supporting C.S.W. and REM., who performed the balance of the OPV preparation/testing and analysis presented here. We also acknowledge insightful discussions with Dr. M. Dolores Perez (CNEA) and Professor Chongwu Zhou for the use of his AFM.
    Publisher
    American Chemical Society (ACS)
    Journal
    Chemistry of Materials
    DOI
    10.1021/cm200525h
    ae974a485f413a2113503eed53cd6c53
    10.1021/cm200525h
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