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ArticleMaterials (Basel, Switzerland)2018

Improving Air-Stability and Performance of Bulk Heterojunction Polymer Solar Cells Using Solvent Engineered Hole Selective Interlayer.

Binrui Xu, Gopalan Sai-Anand, Hyun-Min Jeong, Sae-Wan Kim, Ju-Seong Kim, Jin-Beom Kwon, Shin-Won Kang

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Article in Materials (Basel, Switzerland), 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 6 papers.

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Binrui XuSchool of Electronics Engineering, College of IT Engineering, Kyungpook National University, 80 Daehakro, Bukgu, Daegu 41566, Korea. kezherui123@gmail.com.ORCID 0000-0002-7322-8896
Gopalan Sai-AnandGlobal Innovative Center for Advanced Nanomaterials, Faculty of Engineering and Built Environment, University of Newcastle, Callaghan Campus, New South Wales 2298, Australia. SaiAnand.Gopalan@newcastle.edu.au.ORCID 0000-0003-0188-6571
Hyun-Min JeongSchool of Electronics Engineering, College of IT Engineering, Kyungpook National University, 80 Daehakro, Bukgu, Daegu 41566, Korea. hmjeong@ee.knu.ac.kr.ORCID 0000-0003-0515-161X
Sae-Wan KimSchool of Electronics Engineering, College of IT Engineering, Kyungpook National University, 80 Daehakro, Bukgu, Daegu 41566, Korea. kei95304@gmail.com.ORCID 0000-0002-3466-4417
Ju-Seong KimSchool of Electronics Engineering, College of IT Engineering, Kyungpook National University, 80 Daehakro, Bukgu, Daegu 41566, Korea. jskim5772@ee.knu.ac.kr.
Jin-Beom KwonSchool of Electronics Engineering, College of IT Engineering, Kyungpook National University, 80 Daehakro, Bukgu, Daegu 41566, Korea. jinbumkwon@naver.com.
Shin-Won KangSchool of Electronics Engineering, College of IT Engineering, Kyungpook National University, 80 Daehakro, Bukgu, Daegu 41566, Korea. swkang@knu.ac.kr.

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Abstract

In bulk heterojunction polymer solar cells (BHJ-PSCs), poly(3,4-ethylenedioxythiophene) doped with poly(styrene sulfonate) (PEDOT:PSS) is the most commonly used hole selective interlayer (HSIL). However, its acidity, hygroscopic nature, and the use of indium tin oxide (ITO) etching can degrade the overall photovoltaic performance and the air-stability of BHJ-PSCs. Solvent engineering is considered as a facile approach to overcome these issues. In this work, we engineered the HSIL using ethanol (ET) treated PEDOT:PSS to simultaneously enhance the photovoltaic performance properties and air-stability of the fabricated devices. We systematically investigated the influence of ET on the microstructural, morphological, interfacial characteristics of modified HSIL and photovoltaic characteristics of BHJ-PSCs. Compared with the BHJ-PSC with pristine PEDOT:PSS, a significant enhancement of power conversion efficiency (~17%) was witnessed for the BHJ-PSC with PEDOT:PSS-ET (

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bulk-heterojunctionhole selective interlayerpolymer solar cellssolvent engineering

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PMID29976901
PMCPMC6073352

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