Study of a ternary blend system for bulk heterojunction thin film solar cells

doi:10.1088/1674-1056/25/8/080701

Abstract In this research, we report a bulk heterojunction (BHJ) solar cell consisting of a ternary blend system. Poly(3-hexylthiophene) P3HT is used as a donor and [6, 6]-phenyl C61-butyric acid methylester (PCBM) plays the role of acceptor whereas vanadyl 2, 9, 16, 23-tetraphenoxy-29H, 31H-phthalocyanine (VOPcPhO) is selected as an ambipolar transport material. The materials are selected and assembled in such a fashion that the generated charge carriers could efficiently be transported rightwards within the blend. The organic BHJ solar cells consist of ITO/PEDOT:PSS/ternary BHJ blend/Al structure. The power conversion efficiencies of the ITO/PEDOT:PSS/P3HT:PCBM/Al and ITO/PEDOT:PSS/P3HT:PCBM:VOPcPhO/Al solar cells are found to be 2.3% and 3.4%, respectively.

Keywords: organic semiconductor charge transport bulk heterojunction ternary blend

Received: 24 January 2016
Revised: 14 April 2016
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PACS:	07.07.Df	(Sensors (chemical, optical, electrical, movement, gas, etc.); remote sensing)
	06.90.+v	(Other topics in metrology, measurements, and laboratory procedures)

Fund: This publication was made possible by PDRA (Grant No. PDRA1-0117-14109) from the Qatar National Research Fund (a member of Qatar Foundation). The findings achieved herein are solely the responsibility of the authors.

Corresponding Authors: Zubair Ahmad
E-mail: zubairtarar@qu.edu.qa

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Zubair Ahmad, Farid Touati, Shakoor R A, Al-Thani N J Study of a ternary blend system for bulk heterojunction thin film solar cells 2016 Chin. Phys. B 25 080701

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