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Walker, Alison B.
University of Bath
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- 2024Motional Narrowing Effects in the Excited State Spin Populations of Mn-Doped Hybrid Perovskitescitations
- 2020Deducing transport properties of mobile vacancies from perovskite solar cell characteristicscitations
- 2019Putting the Squeeze on Lead Iodide Perovskitescitations
- 2019How transport layer properties affect perovskite solar cell performancecitations
- 2018Engineering Two-Phase and Three-Phase Microstructures from Water-Based Dispersions of Nanoparticles for Eco-Friendly Polymer Solar Cell Applicationscitations
- 2018The Role of Surface Recombination on the Performance of Perovskite Solar Cells:Effect of Morphology and Crystalline Phase of TiO 2 Contactcitations
- 2018The Role of Surface Recombination on the Performance of Perovskite Solar Cellscitations
- 2018Lead-Free Perovskite Semiconductors Based on Germanium-Tin Solid Solutions:Structural and Optoelectronic Propertiescitations
- 2018Lead-Free Perovskite Semiconductors Based on Germanium-Tin Solid Solutionscitations
- 2018The role of surface recombination on the performance of perovskite solar cells: Effect of morphology and crystalline phase of TiO 2 contactcitations
- 2015Characterization of Planar Lead Halide Perovskite Solar Cells by Impedance Spectroscopy, Open-Circuit Photovoltage Decay, and Intensity-Modulated Photovoltage/Photocurrent Spectroscopycitations
- 2014Monte Carlo studies of electronic processes in dye-sensitized solar cellscitations
- 2013Structural and electronic properties of hybrid perovskites for high-efficiency thin-film photovoltaics from first-principlescitations
- 2012In situ detection of free and trapped electrons in dye-sensitized solar cells by photo-induced microwave reflectance measurementscitations
- 2010Bicontinuous minimal surface nanostructures for polymer blend solar cellscitations
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Engineering Two-Phase and Three-Phase Microstructures from Water-Based Dispersions of Nanoparticles for Eco-Friendly Polymer Solar Cell Applications
Abstract
<p>Nanoparticle organic photovoltaics, a subfield of organic photovoltaics (OPV), has attracted increasing interest in recent years due to the eco-friendly fabrication of solar modules afforded by colloidal ink technology. Importantly, using this approach it is now possible to engineer the microstructure of the light absorbing/charge generating layer of organic photovoltaics; decoupling film morphology from film deposition. In this study, single-component nanoparticles of poly(3-hexylthiophene) (P3HT) and phenyl-C<sub>61</sub>butyric acid methyl ester (PC<sub>61</sub>BM) were synthesized and used to generate a two-phase microstructure with control over domain size prior to film deposition. Scanning transmission X-ray microscopy (STXM) and electron microscopy were used to characterize the thin film morphology. Uniquely, the measured microstructure was a direct input for a nanoscopic kinetic Monte Carlo (KMC) model allowing us to assess exciton transport properties that are experimentally inaccessible in these single-component particles. Photoluminescence, UV-vis spectroscopy measurements, and KMC results of the nanoparticle thin films enabled the calculation of an experimental exciton dissociation efficiency (η<sub>ED</sub>) of 37% for the two-phase microstructure. The glass transition temperature (T<sub>g</sub>) of the materials was characterized with dynamic mechanical thermal analysis (DMTA) and thermal annealing led to an increase in η<sub>ED</sub>to 64% due to an increase in donor-acceptor interfaces in the thin film from both sintering of neighboring opposite-type particles in addition to the generation of a third mixed phase from diffusion of PC<sub>61</sub>BM into amorphous P3HT domains. As such, this study demonstrates the higher level of control over donor-acceptor film morphology enabled by customizing nanoparticulate colloidal inks, where the optimal three-phase film morphology for an OPV photoactive layer can be designed and engineered.</p>