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- 2018Impact of Acceptor Fluorination on the Performance of All-Polymer Solar Cellscitations
- 2017Effect of regioregularity on recombination dynamics in inverted bulk heterojunction organic solar cellscitations
- 2017Critical Role of Pendant Group Substitution on the Performance of Efficient All-Polymer Solar Cellscitations
- 2017Influence of Fullerene Acceptor on the Performance, Microstructure, and Photophysics of Low Bandgap Polymer Solar Cellscitations
- 2017Isolating and quantifying the impact of domain purity on the performance of bulk heterojunction solar cellscitations
- 2016Impact of Fullerene Mixing Behavior on the Microstructure, Photophysics, and Device Performance of Polymer/Fullerene Solar Cellscitations
- 2015Insight into the charge transport and degradation mechanisms in organic transistors operating at elevated temperatures in aircitations
- 2013Hierarchical orientation of crystallinity by block-copolymer patterning and alignment in an electric fieldcitations
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Impact of Fullerene Mixing Behavior on the Microstructure, Photophysics, and Device Performance of Polymer/Fullerene Solar Cells
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<p>Here, a comprehensive study of the influence of polymer:fullerene mixing behavior on the performance, thin-film microstructure, photophysics, and device physics of polymer solar cells is presented. In particular, blends of the donor polymer PBDTTT-EFT with the acceptor PC<sub>71</sub>BM that exhibit power conversion efficiencies over 9% are investigated. Through tuning of the fullerene concentration in PBDTTT-EFT:PC<sub>71</sub>BM blends, the impact of fullerene mixing behavior is systematically investigated via a combination of synchrotron-based X-ray scattering and spectroscopy techniques. The impact of fullerene loading on photophysics and device physics is further explored with steady-state photoluminescence measurements, ultrafast transient absorption spectroscopy, and transient photovoltage measurements. In the low fullerene concentration regime (<50 wt %), most fullerene molecules are dispersed in the polymer matrix, resulting in severe geminate and nongeminate recombination due to a lack of pure fullerene aggregates and percolating pathways for charge separation and transport. In the high fullerene concentration regime (>70 wt %), large fullerene domains result in incomplete PC<sub>71</sub>BM exciton harvesting with the presence of fullerene molecules also disrupting the molecular packing of polymer crystallites. The optimum fullerene concentration of ∼60-67 wt % balances the requirements of charge generation and charge collection. These findings demonstrate that controlling the fullerene concentration in the mixed phase and optimizing the balance between pure and mixed phases are critical for maximizing the efficiency of highly mixed polymer/fullerene solar cells.</p>