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P3HT-Based Solar Cells: Structural Properties and Photovoltaic Performance

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Book cover P3HT Revisited – From Molecular Scale to Solar Cell Devices

Part of the book series: Advances in Polymer Science ((POLYMER,volume 265))

Abstract

Each year we are bombarded with B.Sc. and Ph.D. applications from students that want to improve the world. They have learned that their future depends on changing the type of fuel we use and that solar energy is our future. The hope and energy of these young people will transform future energy technologies, but it will not happen quickly. Organic photovoltaic devices are easy to sketch, but the materials, processing steps, and ways of measuring the properties of the materials are very complicated. It is not trivial to make a systematic measurement that will change the way other research groups think or practice. In approaching this chapter, we thought about what a new researcher would need to know about organic photovoltaic devices and materials in order to have a good start in the subject. Then, we simplified that to focus on what a new researcher would need to know about poly-3-hexylthiophene:phenyl-C61-butyric acid methyl ester blends (P3HT:PCBM) to make research progress with these materials. This chapter is by no means authoritative or a compendium of all things on P3HT:PCBM. We have selected to explain how the sample fabrication techniques lead to control of morphology and structural features and how these morphological features have specific optical and electronic consequences for organic photovoltaic device applications.

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Moulé, A.J., Neher, D., Turner, S.T. (2014). P3HT-Based Solar Cells: Structural Properties and Photovoltaic Performance. In: Ludwigs, S. (eds) P3HT Revisited – From Molecular Scale to Solar Cell Devices. Advances in Polymer Science, vol 265. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/12_2014_289

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