The role of fullerenes in the environmental stability of polymer: fullerene solar cells

HKH Lee, AM Telford, JA Röhr, MF Wyatt… - Energy & …, 2018 - pubs.rsc.org
Environmental stability is a common challenge for the commercialisation of low cost,
encapsulation-free organic opto-electronic devices. Understanding the role of materials …

Correlating Three‐dimensional Morphology With Function in PBDB‐T: IT‐M Non‐Fullerene Organic Solar Cells

W Li, J Cai, Y Yan, F Cai, S Li, RS Gurney, D Liu… - Solar …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
In this work, the correlation between three‐dimensional morphology and device
performance of PBDB‐T: IT‐M non‐fullerene organic solar cells is investigated. We found …

Impact of aggregation on the photochemistry of fullerene films: correlating stability to triplet exciton kinetics

EM Speller, JD McGettrick, B Rice… - … applied materials & …, 2017 - ACS Publications
The photochemistry and stability of fullerene films is found to be strongly dependent upon
film nanomorphology. In particular, PC61BM blend films, dispersed with polystyrene, are …

Femtosecond and attosecond electron-transfer dynamics in PCPDTBT: PCBM bulk heterojunctions

FOL Johansson, M Ivanovic, S Svanstrom… - The Journal of …, 2018 - ACS Publications
Charge separation efficiency is a crucial parameter for photovoltaic devices—polymers
consisting of alternating electron-rich and electron-deficient parts can achieve high such …

Linking the HOMO-LUMO gap to torsional disorder in P3HT/PCBM blends

JA McLeod, AL Pitman, EZ Kurmaev… - The Journal of …, 2015 - pubs.aip.org
The electronic structure of [6, 6]-phenyl C 61 butyric acid methyl ester (PCBM), poly (3-
hexylthiophene)(P3HT), and P3HT/PCBM blends is studied using soft X-ray emission and …

Photodegradation of the electronic structure of PCBM and C60 films in air

AS Anselmo, A Dzwilewski, K Svensson… - Chemical Physics …, 2016 - Elsevier
Fullerenes are common electron acceptors in organic solar cells. Here the photostability in
air of the electronic structures of spin-coated PCBM ([6, 6]-phenyl-C 61-butyric acid methyl …

Spectroscopic investigation of the electronic structure of thin atomic layer deposition HfO2 films

SA Corrêa, S Brizzi, D Schmeisser - Journal of Vacuum Science & …, 2016 - pubs.aip.org
The electronic structure of HfO 2 thin films is investigated employing resonant photoelectron
spectroscopy (resPES). The detailed analysis of the O1s resonance profile enables the …

Impact of processing on the chemical and electronic properties of phenyl-C 61-butyric acid methyl ester

J Maibach, T Adermann, T Glaser, R Eckstein… - Journal of Materials …, 2014 - pubs.rsc.org
For the comparison of solution-processed to evaporated materials in organic optoelectronic
devices, phenyl-C61-butyric acid methyl ester (PCBM) has been claimed to be a suitable …

Calcium Thin Film Growth on Phenyl-C61-Butyric Acid Methyl Ester (PCBM): Interface Structure and Energetics

JM Lownsbury, JC Sharp, EJ Mann… - The Journal of …, 2015 - ACS Publications
The adsorption of Ca vapor on phenyl-C61-butyric acid methyl ester (PCBM) at 300 K has
been studied by X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy (XPS), low-energy He+ ion scattering …

Electronic structure of cobalt–nickel mixed oxides

S Schmidt, D Schmeißer - Solid State Ionics, 2012 - Elsevier
We investigate the electronic structure of cobalt–nickel mixed oxides by means of SR-based
electron spectroscopy. We vary the Co–Ni content systematically and find that the most …