Solid state solar cell made from nanocrystalline TiO2 with a fluorene-thiophene copolymer as a hole conductor

Punniamoorthy Ravirajan; Saif A Haque; Dmitry Poplavskyy; James R. Durrant; Donal D. C. Bradley; Jenny Nelson

doi:10.1117/12.506017

6 February 2004 Solid state solar cell made from nanocrystalline TiO₂ with a fluorene-thiophene copolymer as a hole conductor

Punniamoorthy Ravirajan, Saif A Haque, Dmitry Poplavskyy, James R. Durrant, Donal D. C. Bradley, Jenny Nelson

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Proceedings Volume 5215, Organic Photovoltaics IV; (2004) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.506017
Event: Optical Science and Technology, SPIE's 48th Annual Meeting, 2003, San Diego, California, United States

Abstract

We study the charge recombination kinetics and photovoltaic performance of composites of poly (9,9-dioctylfluorene-co-bithiophene) polymer with nanocrystalline TiO₂. Transient optical spectroscopy confirms that photoexcitation of the polymer leads to electron transfer to the TiO₂ and indicates that charge recombination is slow with a half-time of 100 μs to 10ms. Polymer penetration into thick porous TiO₂ layers is improved by melt-processing and treatment of the TiO₂ surface. We study the photovoltaic characteristics of devices with different layer thickness and interface morphology. Quantum efficiency (QE) of all devices is increased by reducing the TiO₂ and polymer layer thickness. Inserting a thin porous TiO₂ layer in to a thin bi-layer device increases the QE by a factor of five. The improved device shows peak QE and monochromatic power conversion efficiencies of over 11% and 1% at 440nm respectively. The device produced a short-circuit current density of 300μAcm^-2, a fill factor of 0.24 and an open-circuit voltage of 0.8V under AM1.5 illumination. The fill factor is increased from 0.24 to 0.40 by introducing an additional dip-coating layer and overall power conversion efficiency is increased by 50%. However, the device produced degraded current-voltage characteristics. We investigate this using an alternative polymers and different top contact metals.

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Punniamoorthy Ravirajan, Saif A Haque, Dmitry Poplavskyy, James R. Durrant, Donal D. C. Bradley, and Jenny Nelson "Solid state solar cell made from nanocrystalline TiO₂ with a fluorene-thiophene copolymer as a hole conductor", Proc. SPIE 5215, Organic Photovoltaics IV, (6 February 2004); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.506017

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