Sputtered NiO as electron blocking layer in P3HT:PCBM solar cells fabricated in ambient air

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作者：

Betancur, Rafael ^{[1
]}

Maymo, Marc ^{[1
]}

Elias, Xavier ^{[1
]}

Vuong, Luat T. ^{[1
]}

Martorell, Jordi ^{[1
,2
]}

机构：

[1] ICFO, Castelldefels 08860, Barcelona, Spain

[2] Univ Politecn Cataluna, Dept Fis & Engn Nucl, Terrassa 08222, Spain

来源：

SOLAR ENERGY MATERIALS AND SOLAR CELLS | 2011年 / 95卷 / 02期

关键词：

Organic photovoltaics; Electron blocking layer; THIN-FILMS; DEGRADATION;

D O I：

10.1016/j.solmat.2010.10.014

中图分类号：

TE [石油、天然气工业]; TK [能源与动力工程];

学科分类号：

0807 ; 0820 ;

摘要：

We fabricated P3HT:PCBM bulk hetero-junction solar cells, where a 5 nm layer of NiO sputtered on top of ITO is used as an effective electron blocking layer. All the steps involving the processing of the organic materials were performed in ambient air. Under 1 sun of AM1.5G illumination such NiO cells exhibited a power conversion efficiency of 3.3% compared to 3.1% exhibited by a PEDOT:PSS cell fabricated under similar conditions. We observed that for the NiO cell processing in air was not detrimental to the ulterior performance of the cell, which in ambient air degraded with a time constant of 303 h. On the contrary, the PEDOT:PSS cell degraded very rapidly and the loss in efficiency was shown to be 29 times faster when compared to that of the NiO cell. (C) 2010 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.

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页码：735 / 739

页数：5

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