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ENERGY TECHNOLOGY
Volume 2, Issue 5, Pages 462-468Publisher
WILEY-V C H VERLAG GMBH
DOI: 10.1002/ente.201300186
Keywords
energy level alignment; PCBM; photovoltaics; work function; zinc oxide
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- Flinders University
- CSIRO
- Flexible Electronics Theme of the CSIRO Future Manufacturing Flagship
- School of Chemical and Physical Sciences of Flinders University
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The annealing temperature of zinc oxide (ZnO) layers was found to have a significant impact on the efficiency of inverted devices. Device efficiencies were found to increase significantly from 2.5% to 3.6% with an increase in the post-deposition annealing temperature of ZnO. A systematic study of the density of states shows that the work function varies from 3.2 to 3.9 eV with annealing temperature and the offset between the conduction band of ZnO and the lowest unoccupied molecular orbital (LUMO) of the [6,6]-phenyl-C61-butyric acid methyl ester (PCBM) reduced from 0.5 eV (250 degrees C annealing) to 0 eV (150 degrees C annealing) resulting in inefficient charge transport across the bulk heterojunction (BHJ) to the indium tin oxide (ITO) electrode. The dependence of the electronic properties on the annealing temperature has been attributed to a deficiency of electrons corresponding to the nonbonding (lone pair) oxygen orbitals in the ZnO matrix and the presence of precursor impurities.
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