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The Origin of High PCE in PTB7 Based Photovoltaics: Proper Charge Neutrality Level and Free Energy of Charge Separation at PTB7/PC

The Origin of High PCE in PTB7 Based Photovoltaics: Proper Charge Neutrality Level and Free Energy of Charge Separation at PTB7/PC

Soohyung Park, Junkyeong Jeong, Gyeongho Hyun, Minju Kim, Hyunbok Lee, Yeonjin Yi

Sci Rep. 2016 Oct 13;6:35262.

PMID: 27734957

Abstract:

The energy level alignments at donor/acceptor interfaces in organic photovoltaics (OPVs) play a decisive role in device performance. However, little is known about the interfacial energetics in polymer OPVs due to technical issues of the solution process. Here, the frontier ortbial line-ups at the donor/acceptor interface in high performance polymer OPVs, PTB7/PC71BM, were investigated using in situ UPS, XPS and IPES. The evolution of energy levels during PTB7/PC71BM interface formation was investigated using vacuum electrospray deposition, and was compared with that of P3HT/PC61BM. At the PTB7/PC71BM interface, the interface dipole and the band bending were absent due to their identical charge neutrality levels. In contrast, a large interfacial dipole was observed at the P3HT/PC61BM interface. The measured photovoltaic energy gap (EPVG) was 1.10 eV for PTB7/PC71BM and 0.90 eV for P3HT/PC61BM. This difference in the EPVG leads to a larger open-circuit voltage of PTB7/PC71BM than that of P3HT/PC61BM.

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Catalog Number	Product Name	Structure	CAS Number	Price
LS77360	PTB7			Price

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