Journal article
Organic solar cells using a high-molecular-weight benzodithiophene-benzothiadiazole copolymer with an efficiency of 9.4%
J Subbiah, B Purushothaman, M Chen, T Qin, M Gao, D Vak, FH Scholes, X Chen, SE Watkins, GJ Wilson, AB Holmes, WWH Wong, DJ Jones
Advanced Materials | Published : 2015
Abstract
(Graph Presented) A high molecular weight donor-acceptor conjugated polymer is synthesized using the Suzuki polycondensation method. Using this polymer, a singlejunction bulk-heterojunction solar cell is fabricated giving a power conversion efficiency of 9.4% using a fullerene-modified ZnO interlayer at the cathode contact.
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This work was made possible by funding to the Victorian Organic Solar Cell Consortium (VICOSC) from the Victorian State Government (DSDBI) and the Australian Renewable Energy Agency (Project 2-A018), the Australian Centre for Advanced Photovoltaics (ACAP). W.W.H.W. is supported by an ARC Future Fellowship (FT130100500) and T.Q. has been supported by fellowships from the CSIRO Office of the Chief Executive and the Australian Renewable Energy Agency. This work was performed in part at the Melbourne Centre for Nanofabrication (MCN) in the Victorian Node of the Australian National Fabrication Facility (ANFF). The authors thank Thomas Gengenbach (CSIRO) for the XPS results.