Fei Yu and Vikram Kuppa School of Energy, Environmental, Biological and Medical Engineering College of Engineering and Applied Science University of Cincinnati.

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Fei Yu and Vikram Kuppa School of Energy, Environmental, Biological and Medical Engineering College of Engineering and Applied Science University of Cincinnati APS March Meeting 2012, Boston

2  Renewable  Potential for High coverage  Low emission

3 Inorganic solar cells  From 1941  High processing cost  Thickness in microns  Not flexible  25.0% for Si cells* Organic solar cells  From 1954  Solution processible  100~300 nm thick  Flexible  6.1% for polymer BHJ cells** * Green, Progress in Photovoltaics, (3): p ** Park et al., Nat. Photonics, (5): p. 297-U5.

4 Picture source: Deibel and Dyakonov, Reports on Progress in Physics, (9): p. 1-39

e-e- 5 Single-layer device HOMO: Highest Occupied Molecular Orbital LUMO: Lowest Unoccupied Molecular Orbital E polymer HOMO LUMO hνhν e-e- h+h+ h+h+ Exciton  An external voltage is required  Recombination of free charge carriers  ~0.3 eV energy is needed to dissociate excitons

D-A interface E Donor HOMO Donor LUMO Donor h+h+ 6 Bilayer Device e-e- h+h+  D-A interface facilitates exciton dissociation hνhν E Acceptor HOMO Acceptor LUMO Acceptor e-e- 0.3eV  Exciton dissociation is energetically favorable  Exciton diffusion length(~10 nm)  D-A interfacial area is limited by device geometry  Electron transfer from donor(semiconducting polymer) to acceptor

7 (Picture source: Deibel and Dyakonov, Reports on Progress in Physics, (9): p. 1-39) *Peet et al., Nature Materials, (7) : p  Nanoscale penetrating network  Much increased D-A interfacial area  Over 6% PCE for P3HT:PCBM BHJs*  D-A interface close to where exciton is generated

8 Picture source: P3HT Fullerene(C 60 ) Castro Neto et al., Reviews of Modern Physics, (1): p PCBM Conjugated polymer

9 Pictures source: Dennler, Scharber and Brabec, Adv. Mater. 2009, 21(13): p * Padinger, Rittberger and Sariciftci, Adv. Funct. Mater., (1): p  Choice of solvent: polymer chain packing  Donor-acceptor ratio: domain size  Annealing conditions: reorganize polymer chains, crystallization  Other post-production treatments: DC voltage during annealing for ordered structure *  Choice of donor and acceptor materials: band gap and miscibility Morphology Performance

BHJ features Polymer:Fullerene BHJ device  High interfacial area for exciton dissociation  Bicontinuous network for charge transport  50:50 w/w P3HT:PCBM for optimum performance  Increase P3HT ratio to capture more solar energy P3HT PCBM

Pristine Graphene  OPVs with chemically modified graphenes were reported*  Excellent conductivity and high aspect ratio  Percolation paths at very low fraction Scale bar=50nm TEM image of pristine graphene flake Dia.~550nm t=0.35 nm *Liu, Z. et al., Adv. Mater., (20), Yu, D. et al., ACS Nano, (10), Yu, D. et al., J. Phys. Chem. Lett., (10).

P3HT(~90.99%) PCBM(~9%) Graphene(~0.01%) +  The Active layer

Device Fabrication  Patterned ITO as bottom electrode  PEDOT:PSS by spin coating  10:1 P3HT:PCBM(w/w) with graphene by spin coating  LiF and Aluminum Cathode Anode  Fabricated and annealed in N 2

Device Characterization  J-V characteristics

 Cell performance summary

 Cell performance summary(cont.)

Device Characterization(cont.)  External Quantum Efficiency(EQE)* Morphological change *Yu and Kuppa, App. Phy. Lett. (submitted)

 Recombination mechanism Device Characterization(cont.) J SC ~ P In α * Pientka, M. et al., Nanotechnology, (1): p α=1: monomolecular(geminate) recombination α=0.5: bimolecular(non-geminate) recombination greater bimolecular recombination

Conclusions  Adding small fraction of graphene greatly enhances charge transport and leads to much better J sc and   Cells with more than 90% P3HT are viable  Introduction of graphene in active layer leads to change of morphology  Device physics change with increasing graphene fraction *Yu and Kuppa, App. Phy. Lett. (submitted)

Future Work  Better dispersed and oriented graphene via morphological control  Increase FF by reducing interfacial roughness  Stability and device encapsulation FY and VKK thank UC and the URC for funding and support