Title

Single-particle spectroscopy on conducting polymer-fullerene composite materials for application in organic photovoltaic devices

Authors

Authors

A. J. Gesquiere; D. Tenery;Z. J. Hu

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Abbreviated Journal Title

Spectroscopy

Keywords

LIGHT-EMITTING-DIODES; PLASTIC SOLAR-CELLS; CONJUGATED POLYMERS; MOLECULE SPECTROSCOPY; CHARGE-CARRIERS; TEMPERATURE; NANOPARTICLES; PERFORMANCE; MORPHOLOGY; PHOTOPHYSICS; Spectroscopy

Abstract

The study of the photophysical and optoelectronic properties of a functioning conducting pol ymer device is extremely complicated and is hampered by the complex nanostucture and overall morphology of the conducting polymer materials applied in these devices. Here we discuss a novel approach to investigate this issue spectroscopically in terms of bulk-heterojunction organic photovoltaic devices. Novel composite nanoparticles of the conjugated polymers MEH-PPV and MY Wended with the fullerene PCBM were fabricated and are observed to be excellent simplified model systems for the study of molecular-scale morphology effects at play in these complex nanostructured materials. Single-particle spectroscopy reveals the extent to which variations in polymer-chain folding and interactions between polymer chains and fullerenes affect material mo rphology, spectral properties, and optoelectronic properties, providing a detailed molecular scale insight into the morphological effects at play in the active layers of bulk-heterojunction organic photovoltaic devices that otherwise would be masked by the presence of the bulk.

Journal Title

Spectroscopy

Volume

23

Issue/Number

4

Publication Date

1-1-2008

Document Type

Article

Language

English

First Page

32

Last Page

44

WOS Identifier

WOS:000254887000006

ISSN

0887-6703

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