Stable solvent for solution-based electrical doping of semiconducting polymer films and its application to organic solar cells
Abstract
A solution-based method to electrically p-dope organic semiconductors enabling the fabrication of organic solar cells with simplified geometry is implemented with acetonitrile as an alternative to nitromethane.
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- Georgia Inst. of Technology, Atlanta, GA (United States)
- SLAC National Accelerator Lab., Menlo Park, CA (United States)
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- Research Org.:
- SLAC National Accelerator Lab., Menlo Park, CA (United States)
- Sponsoring Org.:
- USDOE Office of Science (SC), Basic Energy Sciences (BES)
- OSTI Identifier:
- 1476171
- Alternate Identifier(s):
- OSTI ID: 1441224
- Grant/Contract Number:
- FA9550-16-1-0168; 105-2917-I-564-044; AC02-76SF00515; N00014-14-1-0580; N00014-16-1-2520; 72150387; ECCS-1542174
- Resource Type:
- Journal Article: Accepted Manuscript
- Journal Name:
- Energy & Environmental Science
- Additional Journal Information:
- Journal Volume: 11; Journal Issue: 8; Journal ID: ISSN 1754-5692
- Publisher:
- Royal Society of Chemistry
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
- Subject:
- 37 INORGANIC, ORGANIC, PHYSICAL, AND ANALYTICAL CHEMISTRY
Citation Formats
Larrain, Felipe A., Fuentes-Hernandez, Canek, Chou, Wen -Fang, Rodriguez-Toro, Victor A., Huang, Tzu -Yen, Toney, Michael F., and Kippelen, Bernard. Stable solvent for solution-based electrical doping of semiconducting polymer films and its application to organic solar cells. United States: N. p., 2018.
Web. doi:10.1039/c8ee00811f.
Larrain, Felipe A., Fuentes-Hernandez, Canek, Chou, Wen -Fang, Rodriguez-Toro, Victor A., Huang, Tzu -Yen, Toney, Michael F., & Kippelen, Bernard. Stable solvent for solution-based electrical doping of semiconducting polymer films and its application to organic solar cells. United States. https://doi.org/10.1039/c8ee00811f
Larrain, Felipe A., Fuentes-Hernandez, Canek, Chou, Wen -Fang, Rodriguez-Toro, Victor A., Huang, Tzu -Yen, Toney, Michael F., and Kippelen, Bernard. 2018.
"Stable solvent for solution-based electrical doping of semiconducting polymer films and its application to organic solar cells". United States. https://doi.org/10.1039/c8ee00811f. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1476171.
@article{osti_1476171,
title = {Stable solvent for solution-based electrical doping of semiconducting polymer films and its application to organic solar cells},
author = {Larrain, Felipe A. and Fuentes-Hernandez, Canek and Chou, Wen -Fang and Rodriguez-Toro, Victor A. and Huang, Tzu -Yen and Toney, Michael F. and Kippelen, Bernard},
abstractNote = {A solution-based method to electrically p-dope organic semiconductors enabling the fabrication of organic solar cells with simplified geometry is implemented with acetonitrile as an alternative to nitromethane.},
doi = {10.1039/c8ee00811f},
url = {https://www.osti.gov/biblio/1476171},
journal = {Energy & Environmental Science},
issn = {1754-5692},
number = 8,
volume = 11,
place = {United States},
year = {Fri May 18 00:00:00 EDT 2018},
month = {Fri May 18 00:00:00 EDT 2018}
}
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Fig. 1: Optical and electrical properties of P3HT films immersed in a PMA solution in acetonitrile or nitromethane. (a) Chemical structures of phosphomolybdic acid (PMA), nitromethane, acetonitrile and poly(3-hexylthiophene-2,5-diyl) (P3HT). (b) The transmittance of 41 nm-thick pristine P3HT and PMA-im-P3HT (after post-process immersion for 30 min in 0.5 M PMAmore »
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