Influence of thermal and solvent annealing on the morphology and photovoltaic performance of solution processed, D–A–D type small molecule-based bulk heterojunction solar cells

RSC Advances ◽  
2015 ◽  
Vol 5 (113) ◽  
pp. 93579-93590 ◽  
Author(s):  
C. H. Pavan Kumar ◽  
K. Ganesh ◽  
T. Suresh ◽  
Abhishek Sharma ◽  
K. Bhanuprakash ◽  
...  

Four new small molecules CSDPP9–CSDPP12 were obtained with appended electron donating units in the molecular terminals of a DPP core. On solvent and thermal annealing, for the CSDPP11:PC71BM blend, the BHJ device displayed a PCE of 5.47%.

2012 ◽  
Vol 3 (6) ◽  
pp. 2103 ◽  
Author(s):  
Wei Lin Leong ◽  
Gregory C. Welch ◽  
Loren G. Kaake ◽  
Christopher J. Takacs ◽  
Yanming Sun ◽  
...  

2015 ◽  
Vol 3 (31) ◽  
pp. 16287-16301 ◽  
Author(s):  
Challuri Vijay Kumar ◽  
Lydia Cabau ◽  
Emmanuel N. Koukaras ◽  
Abhishek Sharma ◽  
Ganesh D. Sharma ◽  
...  

Device AVC117:PC71BM (THF cast), device BVC117:PC71BM (pyridine/THF) and device CVC117:PC71BM (pyridine/THF) with thermal annealing.


2016 ◽  
Vol 18 (33) ◽  
pp. 22999-23005 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yuvraj Patil ◽  
Rajneesh Misra ◽  
F. C. Chen ◽  
Ganesh D. Sharma

We report two acetylene-bridged small molecules DPP5 and DPP6 with low HOMO–LUMO gaps as donors along with PC71BM as an acceptor for the fabrication of solution-processed bulk heterojunction solar cells.


2012 ◽  
Vol 22 (10) ◽  
pp. 4266-4268 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lei Zhang ◽  
Bright Walker ◽  
Feng Liu ◽  
Nicholas S. Colella ◽  
Stefan C. B. Mannsfeld ◽  
...  

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