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Programm Photovoltaik Ausgabe 2009 ... - Bundesamt für Energie BFE

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Evaluation of 2008 and perspectives for <strong>2009</strong><br />

We introduced a new concept to fabricate two-component thin films with nanostructured interface<br />

morphologies in a controlled way. The system consists of a blend of a cyanine dye and a fullerene<br />

derivative that destabilizes by liquid-liquid dewetting. We studied the structure formation mechanism<br />

and emphasized the parameters which are most important to influence the feature size.<br />

Based on the rather fundamental results obtained so far, a number of interesting points will be addressed<br />

and several follow-up projects have already been started. We address the physics of the<br />

liquid-liquid dewetting process in spin-coated cyanine/PCBM films in detail. Continuing studies on the<br />

driving mechanism of instability are necessary to confirm and quantify the model ("why", "when" and<br />

"how" ruptures the bilayer). The role and type of the mobile counter anion needs to be clarified. The<br />

solvent evaporation rate needs to be varied since it determines where the morphology is frozen in.<br />

Solar cells will be fabricated by applying the concept of cyanine dye doping to known film<br />

morphologies. Experiments will be carried out with different dopants, and the long-term stability of<br />

doped cells will be tested. Since each of the two components can be dissolved with selective solvents,<br />

a variety of semiconducting materials can be tested with cyanines or PCBM in photovoltaic devices of<br />

known film morphologies.<br />

The ability to tune the blend morphology will allow a detailed experimental analysis of the relation between<br />

morphology and solar cell efficiency. Such correlations are rare, since it is generally very difficult<br />

to adjust the morphology at the nanoscale of solution-processed thin films of mixtures of organic<br />

components. As identified by mathematical simulations, there is a tradeoff between a fine scale of<br />

phase separation (to optimize exciton dissociation) and a bicontinuous network with percolating paths<br />

to allow for efficient charge transport, and the highest light-to-current conversion efficiencies is expected<br />

to be measured at an intermediate interfacial area [6].<br />

References<br />

[1] T. Geiger, H. Benmansour, B. Fan, R. Hany, F. Nüesch, Macromol. Rapid Commun. 2008, 29, 651.<br />

[2] B. Fan, R. Hany, J.-E. Moser, F. Nüesch, Org. Electronics 2008, 9, 85.<br />

[3] H. Benmansour, F.A. Castro, M. Nagel, J. Heier, R. Hany, F. Nüesch, Chimia 2007, 61, 787.<br />

[4] “Organischer Film und Verfahren zur Herstellung eines organischen Films mit neuartigen optischen Eigenschaften”,<br />

Schweizer Patentanmeldung Nr. 01660/08.<br />

[5] J. Heier, J. Groenewold, S. Huber, F. Nüesch, R. Hany, Langmuir 2008, 24, 7316.<br />

[6] J. Heier, J. Groenewold, F.A. Castro, F. Nüesch, R. Hany, Proc. of SPIE 2008, 6999, 69991J.<br />

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