Recent progress in the morphology of bulk heterojunction photovoltaics
- 1 January 2011
- journal article
- review article
- Published by Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) in Soft Matter
- Vol. 7 (23), 11065-11077
- https://doi.org/10.1039/c1sm06147j
Abstract
A review of current research in the characterization of the morphology of semiconducting polymer:fullerene bulk heterojunctions (BHJs) is presented. BHJs are complex blends of polymers and fullerenes with nanostructures that are highly dependent on materials, processing conditions, and post-treatments to films. Recent work on the study of the morphology of BHJs is surveyed. Emphasis is placed on emerging work on BHJs of poly(3-hexylthiophene), P3HT, and [6,6]-phenyl-C61-butyric acid methyl ester, PCBM, along with BHJs of donor–acceptor polymers that have high power conversion efficiency.This publication has 117 references indexed in Scilit:
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