Bulk-heterojunction polymer solar cells with polyaniline-silica nanocomposites as an efficient hole-collecting layer

Mohsen Mohsennia; Maryam Massah Bidgoli; Mohammad Hossein Khoddami; Alireza Salehi; Farhad Akbari Boroumand

doi:10.1117/1.JNP.10.016011

8 March 2016 Bulk-heterojunction polymer solar cells with polyaniline-silica nanocomposites as an efficient hole-collecting layer

Mohsen Mohsennia, Maryam Massah Bidgoli, Mohammad Hossein Khoddami, Alireza Salehi, Farhad Akbari Boroumand

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Journal of Nanophotonics, Vol. 10, Issue 1, 016011 (March 2016). https://doi.org/10.1117/1.JNP.10.016011

Abstract

At first, bulk-heterojunction polymer solar cells (PSCs) with conventional configuration: ITO/PEDOT:PSS/P3HT:C60/Al, containing different blend ratios of poly(3-hexylthiophene):fullerene, (P3HT):C60 as active layer have been fabricated. The effect of replacement of poly(3,4-ethylenedioxythiophene):poly(styrenesulfonate) (PEDOT:PSS) by the prepared polyaniline-fumed silica (PANI-SiO₂) nanocomposites as the hole-collecting layer (HCL) on the performance of the fabricated PSC with the optimized blending ratio of P3HT:C60 was examined in detail. According to the obtained results, it was found that the fabricated PSC with PANI-SiO₂ nanocomposite containing 10% SiO₂ (PANI-10% SiO₂) as the HCL and P3HT:C60 with the optimized blending ratio (P3HT:33% C60) as active layer exhibited best performance with a fill factor (FF) of 0.35, compared to the PSC containing conventional PEDOT:PSS HCL with an FF of 0.32. Our demonstration suggests that PANI-SiO₂ nanocomposites could be promising HCL replacing PEDOT:PSS in PSCs as well as other organic electronic devices.

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Mohsen Mohsennia, Maryam Massah Bidgoli, Mohammad Hossein Khoddami, Alireza Salehi, and Farhad Akbari Boroumand "Bulk-heterojunction polymer solar cells with polyaniline-silica nanocomposites as an efficient hole-collecting layer," Journal of Nanophotonics 10(1), 016011 (8 March 2016). https://doi.org/10.1117/1.JNP.10.016011

Published: 8 March 2016

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