Degradation of electrical properties of small molecule organic solar cells under oxygen and moisture

Laura Ciammaruchi; Aldo Di Carlo; Ching W. Tang

doi:10.1557/opl.2014.582

Degradation of electrical properties of small molecule organic solar cells under oxygen and moisture

Laura Ciammaruchi
, Aldo Di Carlo
, Ching W. Tang

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Abstract

We investigated the photovoltaic (PV) parameters of a planar hetero-junction solar cell with di-[4-(N,Nditolyl-amino)-phenyl] cyclohexane (TAPC) as donor (D) and C₆₀ as acceptor (A), upon exposing the acceptor side to oxygen and moisture. We found that for the same time of exposure, even minor oxygen amounts lead to more detrimental results compared to moisture. We argue that the photo-conversion efficiency (PCE) decreases due to creation of recombination centers at the interface, which induce losses in exciton diffusion and charge generation. Under the same conditions, we also registered a direct connection between the cell PV parameters' decay and a C₆₀ thin-film conductivity loss.

Original language	English
Article number	582
Journal	MRS Advances
Volume	1695
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1557/opl.2014.582
State	Published - 1 Jan 2014
Externally published	Yes
Event	2014 MRS Spring Meeting - San Francisco, United States Duration: 21 Apr 2014 → 25 Apr 2014

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organic
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thin film

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