Journal article
Analysing impact of oxygen and water exposure on roll-coated organic solar cell performance using impedance spectroscopy
Universidad Rey Juan Carlos1
Department of Energy Conversion and Storage, Technical University of Denmark2
Functional organic materials, Department of Energy Conversion and Storage, Technical University of Denmark3
National Physical Laboratory4
Organic Energy Materials, Department of Energy Conversion and Storage, Technical University of Denmark5
In this work we study the degradation of roll-coated flexible inverted organic solar cells in different atmospheres. We demonstrate that impedance spectroscopy is a powerful tool for elucidating degradation mechanisms; it is used here to distinguish the different degradation mechanisms due to water and oxygen.
Identical cells were exposed to different accelerated degradation environments using water only, oxygen only, and both water and oxygen simultaneously, all of them enhanced with UV light. The photocurrent is dramatically reduced in the oxygen-degraded samples. Impedance measurements indicate that this phenomenon is attributed to defects introduced by absorption of oxygen, which results in an increase of the acceptor impurity (NA) at the cathode interface obtained from a Mott-Schottky analysis.
Simultaneously, at the anode interface where PEDOT:PSS is not shielded by the substrate, the nature of degradation differs for the water and oxygen degraded samples. While oxygen + UV light decreases the conductivity of the PEDOT:PSS layer, water + UV light changes the PEDOT:PSS work function inducing a depletion region at the anode.
Language: | English |
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Year: | 2018 |
Pages: | 397-404 |
ISSN: | 18793398 and 09270248 |
Types: | Journal article |
DOI: | 10.1016/j.solmat.2017.10.028 |
ORCIDs: | Beliatis, M. J. , Krebs, Frederik C and Gevorgyan, S. A. |