Abstract
Bulk heterojunction (BHJ) solar cells might one day play a vital role in realizing low-cost and environmentally benign photovoltaic devices. In this work, a BHJ solar cell was designed, based on a hexadeca-substituted phthalocyanine (FcPc) with ferrocenyl linked to the phthalocyanine ring. Next, we sought to obtain more quantitative information about the usability of this newly synthesized compound as a donor material in BHJ solar cells. Thus, BHJs with the structure of indium tin oxide/poly(3,4-ethylenedioxythiophene):poly(styrenesulfonate)/FcPc:[6,6]-phenyl-C61-butyric acid methyl ester (PCBM) blend/LiF/Al were fabricated and characterized. The effect of blend ratio (0.5–2.0) on the BHJ solar cell parameters was also investigated. Interesting results were obtained in FcPc and the PCBM blend-based BHJ solar cell under optimized conditions. Our results presented here demonstrate that BHJ devices employing FcPc as a donor has great potential for the development of highly efficient non-poly(3-hexylthiophen-2,5-diyl) photovoltaic devices.
Original language | English |
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Pages (from-to) | 6946-6949 |
Number of pages | 4 |
Journal | Chemistry - A European Journal |
Volume | 24 |
Issue number | 27 |
DOIs | |
Publication status | Published - 11 May 2018 |
Bibliographical note
Publisher Copyright:© 2018 Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim
Funding
This study was supported by the Research Fund of Istanbul-Technical University. AG thanks Turkish Academy of Sciences(-TUBA) for partial support.
Funders | Funder number |
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Istanbul-Technical University |
Keywords
- crystal engineering
- donor
- ferrocene
- phthalocyanines
- solar cells