Inverted organic solar cells based on aqueous processed ZnO interlayers at low temperature

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作者
Bai, Sai [1 ]
Wu, Zhongwei [2 ]
Xu, Xiaoli [3 ]
Jin, Yizheng [1 ]
Sun, Baoquan [2 ]
Guo, Xiaojun [3 ]
He, Shasha [1 ]
Wang, Xin [1 ]
Ye, Zhizhen [1 ]
Wei, Huaixin [2 ]
Han, Xiaoyuan [2 ]
Ma, Wanli [2 ]
机构
[1] Zhejiang Univ, State Key Lab Silicon Mat, Dept Mat Sci & Engn, Hangzhou 310027, Zhejiang, Peoples R China
[2] Soochow Univ, Jiangsu Key Lab Carbon Based Funct Mat & Devices, Inst Funct Nano & Soft Mat FUNSOM, Suzhou 215123, Peoples R China
[3] Shanghai Jiao Tong Univ, Dept Elect Engn, Shanghai 200240, Peoples R China
基金
国家高技术研究发展计划(863计划); 中国国家自然科学基金;
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10.1063/1.4719201
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O59 [应用物理学];
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摘要
A facile solution processable and low temperature (<= 150 degrees C) approach was developed to deposit ZnO electron transport interlayers for inverted organic solar cells. The ZnO thin films were fabricated from the stable and non-toxic aqueous precursor solutions of ammine-hydroxo zinc complex, [Zn(NH3)(x)](OH)(2). The resulting inverted poly (3-hexylthiophene): [6-6]-phenyl C-61 butryric acid methyl ester solar cells exhibited power conversion efficiency of 4.17% as well as decent stability. We demonstrate that the work function of the ZnO electron transport interlayers was critical in terms of governing the photovoltaic performance of the inverted devices. (C) 2012 American Institute of Physics. [http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.4719201]
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