Effect of Thermal Annealing on Charge Transfer States and Charge Trapping in PCDTBT:PC70BM Solar Cells

Iordania Constantinou; Tzung-Han Lai; Hsien-Yi Hsu; Sin-Hang Cheung; Erik D. Klump; Kirk S. Schanze; Shu-Kong So; Franky So

doi:10.1002/aelm.201500167

Effect of Thermal Annealing on Charge Transfer States and Charge Trapping in PCDTBT:PC₇₀BM Solar Cells

Iordania Constantinou, Tzung-Han Lai, Hsien-Yi Hsu, Sin-Hang Cheung, Erik D. Klump, Kirk S. Schanze, Shu-Kong So, Franky So^*

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Abstract

The impact of thermal annealing on charge transfer (CT) states in poly[N-9″-hepta-decanyl-2,7-carbazole- alt -5,5-(4′,7′-di-2-thienyl-2′,1′,3′-benzothiadiazole)] (PCDTBT):[6,6]-phenyl C71 butyric acid methyl ester (PC70BM) bulk heterojunction solar cells is analyzed. Thermal annealing is found to increase the effectiveness of the CT states, facilitating exciton dissociation and carrier generation. An increase in the concentration of deep traps due to annealing is presented using mid-gap photothermal deflection spectroscopy, resulting in suboptimal overall device performance.

Original language	English
Article number	1500167
Journal	Advanced Electronic Materials
Volume	1
Issue number	9
Early online date	8 Jul 2015
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1002/aelm.201500167
Publication status	Published - Sept 2015

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charge transfer states
exciton dissociation
organic solar cells
photothermal deflection spectroscopy
thermal annealing

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