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Interface Design Principles for High-Performance Organic Semiconductor Devices.

ABSTRACT: Precise manipulation of organic donor-acceptor interfaces using spacer layers is demonstrated to suppress interface recombination in an organic photo-voltaic device. These strategies lead to a dramatic improvement in a model bilayer system and bulk-heterojunction system. These interface strategies are applicable to a wide variety of donor-acceptor systems, making them both fundamentally interesting and technologically relevant for achieving high efficiency organic electronic devices.

SUBMITTER: Nie W

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5115400 | biostudies-literature | 2015 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

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Interface Design Principles for High-Performance Organic Semiconductor Devices.

Nie Wanyi W Gupta Gautam G Crone Brian K BK Liu Feilong F Smith Darryl L DL Ruden P Paul PP Kuo Cheng-Yu CY Tsai Hsinhan H Wang Hsing-Lin HL Li Hao H Tretiak Sergei S Mohite Aditya D AD

Advanced science (Weinheim, Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany) 20150323 6

<b>Precise manipulation of organic donor-acceptor interfaces using spacer layers</b> is demonstrated to suppress interface recombination in an organic photo-voltaic device. These strategies lead to a dramatic improvement in a model bilayer system and bulk-heterojunction system. These interface strategies are applicable to a wide variety of donor-acceptor systems, making them both fundamentally interesting and technologically relevant for achieving high efficiency organic electronic devices. ...[more]

PMID: 27980948

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