The effect of confinement on the crystalline microstructure of polymer: fullerene bulk heterojunctions
- 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
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
- Research Organization:
- Brookhaven National Lab. (BNL), Upton, NY (United States)
- Sponsoring Organization:
- USDOE Office of Science (SC)
- Grant/Contract Number:
- SC00112704; AC02-98CH10886
- OSTI ID:
- 1240586
- Report Number(s):
- BNL-108205-2015-JA; PPCPFQ; YN0100000
- Journal Information:
- Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics. PCCP, Vol. 17, Issue 36; ISSN 1463-9076
- Publisher:
- Royal Society of ChemistryCopyright Statement
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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