Surface passivation effect by fluorine plasma treatment on ZnO for efficiency and lifetime improvement of inverted polymer solar cells
Journal of Materials Chemistry A, ISSN: 2050-7496, Vol: 4, Issue: 30, Page: 11844-11858
2016
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Article Description
Zinc oxide (ZnO) is an important material for polymer solar cells (PSCs) where the characteristics of the interface can dominate both the efficiency and lifetime of the device. In this work we study the effect of fluorine (SF) plasma surface treatment of ZnO films on the performance of PSCs with an inverted structure. The interaction between fluorine species present in the SF plasma and the ZnO surface is also investigated in detail. We provide fundamental insights into the passivation effect of fluorine by analyzing our experimental results and theoretical calculations and we propose a mechanism according to which a fluorine atom substitutes an oxygen atom or occupies an oxygen vacancy site eliminating an electron trap while it may also attract hydrogen atoms thus favoring hydrogen doping. These multiple fluorine roles can reduce both the recombination losses and the electron extraction barrier at the ZnO/fullerene interface improving the selectivity of the cathode contact. Therefore, the fabricated devices using the fluorine plasma treated ZnO show high efficiency and stable characteristics, irrespective of the donor:acceptor combinations in the photoactive blend. Inverted polymer solar cells, consisting of the P3HT:PCBM blend, exhibited increased lifetime and high power conversion efficiency (PCE) of 4.6%, while the ones with the PCDTBT:PCBM blend exhibited a PCE of 6.9%. Our champion devices with the PTB7:PCBM blends reached a high PCE of 8.0% and simultaneously showed exceptional environmental stability when using the fluorine passivated ZnO cathode interlayers.
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http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?partnerID=HzOxMe3b&scp=84979742752&origin=inward; http://dx.doi.org/10.1039/c6ta03594a; https://xlink.rsc.org/?DOI=C6TA03594A; http://xlink.rsc.org/?DOI=C6TA03594A; http://pubs.rsc.org/en/content/articlepdf/2016/TA/C6TA03594A; https://dx.doi.org/10.1039/c6ta03594a; https://pubs.rsc.org/en/content/articlelanding/2016/ta/c6ta03594a
Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC)
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