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SYOE: Symposium Organic Thin Film Electronics: From Molecular Contacts to Devices
SYOE 8: Poster Session SYOE
SYOE 8.53: Poster
Tuesday, March 27, 2007, 18:00–20:00, Poster B
Efficient Platform for Characterisation and Data Analysis of Organic Solar Cells — •Moritz K. Riede1,2, Markus Glatthaar1, Michael Niggemann1,2, Kristian O. Sylvester-Hvid2, Tobias Ziegler1, Birger Zimmermann2, Andreas W. Liehr2, Andreas Gombert1, and Gerhard Willeke1 — 1Fraunhofer Institute for Solar Energy Systems, Heidenhofstr. 2, 79110 Freiburg, Germany — 2Material Research Center Freiburg, Stefan-Meier-Str. 21, 79104 Freiburg, Germany
Organic Solar Cells (OSCs) present a new and interesting approach to photovoltaic energy conversion with the prospects of low cost fabrication. Efficient dissociation of the photo-generated excitons and consequent charge collection is achieved by blending electron donor and acceptor materials. The resulting composite, called a bulk-heterojunction, acts as photovoltaic absorber. The currently most investigated donor:acceptor composite consists of the conjugated polymer poly(3-hexylthiophene) (P3HT) and the fullerene derivative 1-(3-methoxycarbonyl)-propyl-1-1-phenyl-(6,6)C61 (PCBM).
The making of OSCs is a simple process but with many possible parameter variations, even for a fixed choice of donor:acceptor composite. To allow for a systematic and efficient analysis of how such production parameters influence the OSC performance, a robust and extensible platform for OSC fabrication and characterisation was developed. This platform enables both reliable data acquisition and efficient data management as well as mining of OSC data.