LIU Xian-de, LYU Long-feng, HOU Yan-bing. Effect of Solvent on The Performance of Inverted Polymer Solar Cells Using Polyethylenimine Ethoxylated (PEIE) as The Cathode Interfacial Layer[J]. Chinese Journal of Luminescence, 2015,36(6): 666-672
LIU Xian-de, LYU Long-feng, HOU Yan-bing. Effect of Solvent on The Performance of Inverted Polymer Solar Cells Using Polyethylenimine Ethoxylated (PEIE) as The Cathode Interfacial Layer[J]. Chinese Journal of Luminescence, 2015,36(6): 666-672 DOI: 10.3788/fgxb20153606.0666.
Effect of Solvent on The Performance of Inverted Polymer Solar Cells Using Polyethylenimine Ethoxylated (PEIE) as The Cathode Interfacial Layer
The effect of different solvents on the performance of polyethylenimine ethoxylated as a cathode interfacial layer in inverted polymer solar cells is investigated. Four solvents
distilled water (DW)
isopropanol (IPA)
2-methoxyethanol (MEA) and 2-ethoxyethanol (EEA) were chosen as the diluting solvents of PEIE to fabricate devices. Surface-charge accumulation and carrier collection at interface between ITO and PEIE layer fabricated from four different solutions are analyzed and compared by the measurements of transient photocurrent characteristic and photo-excitation capacitance-voltage (
C-V
) profiling. The results show that the photoelectric conversion efficiency (PCE) of the MEA device reaches 3.61%
compared with the DW device (2.66%) increased by 24%.The morphology of PEIE film depends on PEIE solvents
and the traps tracing to the morphology of PEIE layer lead to different charge accumulation and charge collection efficiency
which further affects the performances of devices.
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