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  • Functional solid additive modified PEDOT:PSS as an anode buffer layer for enhanced photovoltaic performance and stability in polymer solar cells.

Functional solid additive modified PEDOT:PSS as an anode buffer layer for enhanced photovoltaic performance and stability in polymer solar cells.

Scientific reports (2017-03-25)
Binrui Xu, Sai-Anand Gopalan, Anantha-Iyengar Gopalan, Nallal Muthuchamy, Kwang-Pill Lee, Jae-Sung Lee, Yu Jiang, Sang-Won Lee, Sae-Wan Kim, Ju-Seong Kim, Hyun-Min Jeong, Jin-Beom Kwon, Jin-Hyuk Bae, Shin-Won Kang
ABSTRACT

Poly(3,4-ethylenedioxythiophene):poly(styrene sulfonate) (PEDOT:PSS) is most commonly used as an anode buffer layer in bulk-heterojunction (BHJ) polymer solar cells (PSCs). However, its hygroscopic and acidic nature contributes to the insufficient electrical conductivity, air stability and restricted photovoltaic (PV) performance for the fabricated PSCs. In this study, a new multifunctional additive, 2,3-dihydroxypyridine (DOH), has been used in the PEDOT: PSS buffer layer to obtain modified properties for PEDOT: PSS@DOH and achieve high PV performances. The electrical conductivity of PEDOT:PSS@DOH films was markedly improved compared with that of PEDOT:PSS. The PEDOT:PSS@DOH film exhibited excellent optical characteristics, appropriate work function alignment, and good surface properties in BHJ-PSCs. When a poly(3-hexylthiohpene):[6,6]-phenyl C

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DCB, ≥98% (HPLC), solid