Investigating local (photo-)current and structure of ZnPc:C₆₀ bulk-heterojunctions

The performance of organic solar cells strongly depends on the nanoscale structure of the used mixed absorber layer. Utilizing photoconductive and conductive atomic force microscopy (pcAFM and cAFM), as well as transmission X-ray microscopy (TXM), we investigate the influence of different substrate...

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Những tác giả chính: Mönch, T, Murawski, J, Elschner, C, Riede, M, Müller-Meskamp, L, Leo, K, Guttmann, P
Định dạng: Journal article
Ngôn ngữ:English
Được phát hành: Elsevier 2013
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Tóm tắt:The performance of organic solar cells strongly depends on the nanoscale structure of the used mixed absorber layer. Utilizing photoconductive and conductive atomic force microscopy (pcAFM and cAFM), as well as transmission X-ray microscopy (TXM), we investigate the influence of different substrate temperatures <em>T</em><sub>sub</sub> on the thin-film structure and local photocurrent in bulk-heterojunctions (BHJs) of vacuum deposited zinc phthalocyanine (ZnPc) and Buckminsterfullerene (C<sub>60</sub>) mixed absorber layers. In this paper, we present topography maps, photocurrent maps under short-circuit current conditions, dark-current maps, and TXM images with high lateral resolution down to 25nm. We observe a strong influence of the substrate temperatures during deposition <em>T</em><sub>sub</sub> on the nanoscopical segregation of the two components in the BHJ. This segregation leads to a spatial extension of the dark-current and a reduced short-circuit current at higher substrate deposition temperatures <em>T</em><sub>sub</sub>. © 2013 Elsevier B.V.