Title
Investigating polaron dynamics in PM6:Y6 films for use in organic photovoltaics using time-resolved infrared spectroscopy
Date Issued
01 January 2021
Access level
metadata only access
Resource Type
conference paper
Author(s)
Pennsylvania State University
Publisher(s)
SPIE
Abstract
In the last 10 years, there has been a boom in the organic photovoltaic (OPV) community, with new devices achieving power conversion efficiencies (PCEs) of ∼18%. This significant increase in device performance is due to a switch from polymer:fullerenes, such as P3HT:PCBM, to polymer:non-fullerenes, like PM6:Y6. These films are often created with the use of solvent additives which, when correctly chosen, increase the device performance. However, because many of these polymer:non-fullerene systems have only recently been developed the exact effect that these solvent additives have on the morphology, performance and electronic properties is not well understood. Here we use a combination of photoluminescence and time-resolved spectroscopy along with grazing-incidence wide-Angle x-ray scattering to fully understand what is occurring at both an electronic and morphological level in a series of PM6:Y6 films with varying amounts of acetone used as a solvent additive. From these data we find that acetone changes the degree of mixing and crystal grain size, which leads to changes in polaron yield and recombination, which is reflected in device performance.
Volume
11799
Language
English
OCDE Knowledge area
Ingeniería química
Scopus EID
2-s2.0-85117712134
Resource of which it is part
Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering
ISSN of the container
0277786X
ISBN of the container
978-151064436-6
Conference
Physical Chemistry of Semiconductor Materials and Interfaces XX 2021
Sponsor(s)
Financial support by the Office of Naval Research under Award N00014-19-1-2453 is acknowledged.
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