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HL: Fachverband Halbleiterphysik

HL 78: Joint Session: Organic Electronics and Photovoltaics IV

HL 78.5: Talk

Thursday, March 17, 2011, 17:15–17:30, GER 38

Organic Photovoltaic Cells with Pentacene Nanocolumn Arrays — •Shuwen Yu, Peter Schäfer, Jürgen P. Rabe, and Norbert Koch — Institut für Physik, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Brook-Taylor-Str. 6, 12489 Berlin, Germany

Highly ordered pentacene nanocolumn arrays were fabricated by glancing angle deposition (GLAD) on indium tin oxide (ITO) substrates. The nanocolumn diameter was set to 100-150 nm as revealed by scanning electron microscopy and atomic force microscopy. Interdigitated bulk heterojunction photovoltaic cells (OPVCs) were formed by spin-coating [6,6]-phenyl-C61-butyric acid methyl ester (PCBM) as the acceptor material onto the pentacene nanocolumn film. Bathocuproine (BCP) was deposited on top of PCBM as exciton blocking layer. The conversion efficiency of nanocolumn-based OPVCs was significantly higher compared to planar heterojunction OPVCs of the same materials. Further device performance improvement was achieved through employing a thin pentacene seed layer before GLAD, which promoted PCBM solution infiltration between pentacene nanocolumns.