The effect of confinement on the crystalline microstructure of polymer: fullerene bulk heterojunctions
Abstract
We investigate the effect of confinement on the coherence length and the crystalline microstructure of the polymer component of polymer: fullerene bulk heterojunction thin films using grazing incidence wide angle x-ray scattering. We find that the polymer crystallite size decreases and the alignment of the molecules along the surface normal increases, as the thin-film thickness is reduced from 920nm to < 20nm and approaches the thin-film confinement regime. Furthermore, we find that the polymer crystallite size near the surface (air interface) is lower than the crystallite size in the bulk or the bottom (substrate interface) of bulk heterojunction films thicker than the confinement regime. Variation in polymer crystallite size can cause changes in charge carrier mobility and recombination rates, which in turn affect the performance of bulk heterojunction thin film devices such as photovoltaics and photodetectors
- Authors:
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- Brookhaven National Lab. (BNL), Upton, NY (United States). Sustainable Energy Technologies Department; Stony Brook Univ., NY (United States). Dept. of Physics and Astronomy
- Brookhaven National Lab. (BNL), Upton, NY (United States). Sustainable Energy Technologies Department
- Brookhaven National Lab. (BNL), Upton, NY (United States). Sustainable Energy Technologies Department; Stony Brook Univ., NY (United States). Dept. of Physics and Astronomy; Stony Brook Univ., NY (United States). Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
- Publication Date:
- Research Org.:
- Brookhaven National Lab. (BNL), Upton, NY (United States)
- Sponsoring Org.:
- USDOE Office of Science (SC)
- OSTI Identifier:
- 1240586
- Report Number(s):
- BNL-108205-2015-JA
Journal ID: ISSN 1463-9076; PPCPFQ; YN0100000
- Grant/Contract Number:
- SC00112704; AC02-98CH10886
- Resource Type:
- Accepted Manuscript
- Journal Name:
- Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics. PCCP
- Additional Journal Information:
- Journal Volume: 17; Journal Issue: 36; Journal ID: ISSN 1463-9076
- Publisher:
- Royal Society of Chemistry
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
- Subject:
- 14 SOLAR ENERGY
Citation Formats
Ashraf, A., Dissanayake, D. M. N. M., and Eisaman, M. D. The effect of confinement on the crystalline microstructure of polymer: fullerene bulk heterojunctions. United States: N. p., 2015.
Web. doi:10.1039/C5CP03399C.
Ashraf, A., Dissanayake, D. M. N. M., & Eisaman, M. D. The effect of confinement on the crystalline microstructure of polymer: fullerene bulk heterojunctions. United States. https://doi.org/10.1039/C5CP03399C
Ashraf, A., Dissanayake, D. M. N. M., and Eisaman, M. D. Wed .
"The effect of confinement on the crystalline microstructure of polymer: fullerene bulk heterojunctions". United States. https://doi.org/10.1039/C5CP03399C. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1240586.
@article{osti_1240586,
title = {The effect of confinement on the crystalline microstructure of polymer: fullerene bulk heterojunctions},
author = {Ashraf, A. and Dissanayake, D. M. N. M. and Eisaman, M. D.},
abstractNote = {We investigate the effect of confinement on the coherence length and the crystalline microstructure of the polymer component of polymer: fullerene bulk heterojunction thin films using grazing incidence wide angle x-ray scattering. We find that the polymer crystallite size decreases and the alignment of the molecules along the surface normal increases, as the thin-film thickness is reduced from 920nm to < 20nm and approaches the thin-film confinement regime. Furthermore, we find that the polymer crystallite size near the surface (air interface) is lower than the crystallite size in the bulk or the bottom (substrate interface) of bulk heterojunction films thicker than the confinement regime. Variation in polymer crystallite size can cause changes in charge carrier mobility and recombination rates, which in turn affect the performance of bulk heterojunction thin film devices such as photovoltaics and photodetectors},
doi = {10.1039/C5CP03399C},
journal = {Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics. PCCP},
number = 36,
volume = 17,
place = {United States},
year = {Wed Jul 01 00:00:00 EDT 2015},
month = {Wed Jul 01 00:00:00 EDT 2015}
}
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