Effect of crystalline microstructure on the photophysical performance of polymer/perylene composite films
Feng Wei (封伟)a, Xu You-Long (徐友龙)b, Yi Wen-Hui (易文辉)b, Zhou Feng (周峰)a, Wang Xiao-Gong (王晓工)a, Yoshino Katsumi (吉野勝美)c
a Institute of Polymer Science and Engineering, Department of Chemical Engineering, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084, China; b School of Electronic and Information Engineering, Xi'an Jiaotong University, Xi'an 710049, China; c Department of Electronic Engineering, Graduate School of Engineering, Osaka University, 2-1 Yamada-Oka, Suita, Osaka 565-0871, Japan
Abstract To obtain high carrier mobility, better charge injection capability, and high photovoltaic device conversion efficiency, a powerful strategy is to improve the morphology of the polymer/dye composite films. Conjugated conducting polymer (CP) thin films doped with perylene derivative (PV) of various concentrations were prepared by spin-casting method, and their morphology and photovoltaic characteristics were examined. The change in morphology and molecular reorientation occurring in CP-PV composite films upon annealing at different temperatures was investigated using scanning electron microscopy, x-ray diffraction, Fourier transform infrared and UV-vis absorption. By changing the annealing temperature, PV microcrystallines of 8-10μm in size lying parallel to the substrate surface can be obtained. Annealing effect improved the photovoltaic performance of ITO/CP-PV/Al Schottky-type solar cells, which can be attributed to the formation of an electron conducting PV crystal network. Preliminary studies indicate that the morphological structure in CP-PV composite films has an important influence to their photovoltaic properties.
Received: 22 November 2002
Revised: 20 December 2002
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Fund: Project supported by the Foundation for Overseas Returnee of Chinese Education Ministry (Grant No 2001345) and the Postdoctoral Science Foundation of China (Grant No 2002032055).
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Feng Wei (封伟), Xu You-Long (徐友龙), Yi Wen-Hui (易文辉), Zhou Feng (周峰), Wang Xiao-Gong (王晓工), Yoshino Katsumi (吉野勝美) Effect of crystalline microstructure on the photophysical performance of polymer/perylene composite films 2003 Chinese Physics 12 426
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