The effect of solvent induced crystallinity of polymer layer on poly(3-hexylthiophene)/C(70) bilayer solar cells

Abstract

A bilayer polymer solar cell is demonstrated with the device configuration ITO/PEDOT:PSS/poly(3-hexylthiophene)/C(70)/Al. In this article, we highlight the importance of polymer surface morphology, its crystallinity and mobility on device output parameters. The solvent used for polymer processing plays a major role in deciding these parameters and it was observed that high boiling point solvents are desirable for achieving large surface roughness of the polymer layer, which in turn provide more interface area in the bilayer device structure. Due to the increased interface area for exciton dissociation, these bilayer devices resulted in a maximum power conversion efficiency of 3.65% under one sun radiation. (C) 2010 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.