Hostname: page-component-669899f699-7tmb6 Total loading time: 0 Render date: 2025-04-25T02:45:33.024Z Has data issue: false hasContentIssue false
  • English
  • Français

Combinatorial Screening of Polymer/Fullerene Blends for Solar Cells by Inkjet Printing

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 April 2012

Anke Teichler ,
Jolke Perelaer  and
Ulrich S. Schubert
Anke Teichler*
Affiliation:
Laboratory of Organic and Macromolecular Chemistry (IOMC) and Jena Center for Soft Matter (JCSM), Friedrich-Schiller-University Jena, Jena, Germany.
Jolke Perelaer
Affiliation:
Laboratory of Organic and Macromolecular Chemistry (IOMC) and Jena Center for Soft Matter (JCSM), Friedrich-Schiller-University Jena, Jena, Germany.
Ulrich S. Schubert*
Affiliation:
Laboratory of Organic and Macromolecular Chemistry (IOMC) and Jena Center for Soft Matter (JCSM), Friedrich-Schiller-University Jena, Jena, Germany.
*
*E-mail: anke.teichler@uni-jena.de or ulrich.schubert@uni-jena.de
*E-mail: anke.teichler@uni-jena.de or ulrich.schubert@uni-jena.de
Get access

Abstract

Inkjet printing is a highly material-efficient solution deposition technique that enables the preparation of thin-film libraries using little amounts of materials. As a reproducible and precise patterning technique inkjet printing can be integrated into a combinatorial screening workflow that allowed the systematic characterization of thin-film properties of newly developed materials as well as the methodical investigation of preparation parameter that influence the performance of the inkjet printed layers.

This contribution provides a demonstration of a combinatorial screening workflow that utilizes inkjet printing to evaluate structure-property relationships of polymer/fullerene blends for the application in organic photovoltaics. Using this approach it is shown that optimized blend compositions as well as printing conditions lead to improved performances of organic solar cell devices.

Keywords

ink-jet printingphotovoltaicmorphology
Type
Research Article
Information
MRS Online Proceedings Library (OPL) , Volume 1390: Symposium H/I – Organic Photovoltaics–Materials to Devices , 2012 , mrsf11-1390-h03-15
Copyright
Copyright © Materials Research Society 2012

Access options

Get access to the full version of this content by using one of the access options below. (Log in options will check for institutional or personal access. Content may require purchase if you do not have access.)

Article purchase

Temporarily unavailable

References

REFERENCES

1. Krebs, F. C., Sol. Energy Mat. Sol. C. 93, 394 (2009).Google Scholar
2. Green, M. A., Emery, K., Hishikawa, Y. and Warta, W., Prog. Photovolt: Res. Appl. 19, 84 (2011).Google Scholar
3. Renz, J. A., Keller, T., Schneider, M., Shokhovets, S., Jandt, K. D., Gobsch, G., Hoppe, H., Sol. Energy Mat. Sol. C 93, 508 (2009).Google Scholar
4. Tekin, E., Wijlaars, H., Holder, E., Egbe, D. A. M., Schubert, U. S., J. Mater. Chem. 16, 4294 (2006).Google Scholar
5. de Gans, B. J., Schubert, U. S., Macromol. Rapid Commun. 24, 659 (2003).Google Scholar
6. Teichler, A., Eckardt, R., Hoeppener, S., Friebe, C., Perelaer, J., Senes, A., Morana, M., Brabec, C. J., Schubert, U. S., Adv. Energy Mater. 1, 105 (2011).Google Scholar
7. Morana, M., Azimi, H., Dennler, G., Egelhaaf, H. J., Scharber, M., Forberich, K., Hauch, J., Gaudiana, R., Waller, D., Zhu, Z. H., Hingerl, K., van Bavel, S. S., Loos, J., Brabec, C. J., Adv. Funct. Mater. 20, 1180 (2010).Google Scholar
8. Chen, H. Y., Hou, J. H., Hayden, A. E., Yang, H., Houk, K. N., Yang, Y., Adv. Mater. 22, 371 (2010).Google Scholar