{"id":4367,"date":"2020-03-15T23:00:00","date_gmt":"2020-03-15T21:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nanosensors.com\/blog\/highly-efficient-fullerene-and-non-fullerene-based-ternary-organic-solar-cells-incorporating-a-new-tetrathiocin-cored-semiconductor\/"},"modified":"2023-03-15T14:51:34","modified_gmt":"2023-03-15T12:51:34","slug":"highly-efficient-fullerene-and-non-fullerene-based-ternary-organic-solar-cells-incorporating-a-new-tetrathiocin-cored-semiconductor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nanosensors.com\/blog\/highly-efficient-fullerene-and-non-fullerene-based-ternary-organic-solar-cells-incorporating-a-new-tetrathiocin-cored-semiconductor\/","title":{"rendered":"Highly efficient fullerene and non-fullerene based ternary organic solar cells incorporating a new tetrathiocin-cored semiconductor"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Organic photovoltaic (OPV) devices based on nanocomposites of \u03c0-conjugated semiconductors are a prospective solar cell technology and have attracted considerable attention due to unprecedented attributes such as printability, foldability, portability, wearability, semi-transparency and amenability to cost-effective large area fabrication. Extensive and focussed research to enhance the power conversion efficiency (PCE) of organic solar cells have led to the development of highly efficient bulk heterojunction (BHJ) single and multijunction organic solar cells with PCEs > 15%.*<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the paper “Highly efficient fullerene and non-fullerene based ternary organic solar cells incorporating a new tetrathiocin-cored semiconductor<\/em>\u201d Lethy Krishnan Jagadamma, Rupert G. D. Taylor, Alexander L. Kanibolotsky, Muhammad Tariq Sajjad, Iain A. Wright, Peter N. Horton, Simon J. Coles, Ifor D. W. Samuel and Peter J. Skabara present a dual-chain oligothiophene-based organic semiconductor, EH-5T-TTC.*<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Detailed\ncharacterisation of the ternary blend systems as presented in the paper implies\nthat the ternary small molecule EH-5T-TTC functions differently in polymer: fullerene\nand polymer: non-fullerene blends and has dual functions of morphology\nmodification and complementary spectral absorption.*<\/p>\n\n\n\n

To understand the differences in recombination dynamics of the blends containing EH-5T-TTC and fullerene\/non-fullerene acceptors, detailed morphological characterisation was performed using atomic force microscopy (AFM).*<\/p>\n\n\n\n

NANOSENSORS\u2122 PointProbe\u00ae Plus<\/a> PPP-NCSTR<\/a> silicon AFM probes with typical force constant of 7.4 Nm\u22121 were used for the AFM height images presented in the paper. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Fig. 7 from \u201cHighly efficient fullerene and non-fullerene based ternary organic solar cells incorporating a new tetrathiocin-cored semiconductor\u201d:
AFM height images of the binary and ternary blends of PTB7-Th:EH-IDTBR and PTB7-Th:PC71BM. (a) Binary PTB7-Th:EH-IDTBR (b) ternary PTB7-Th:EH-IDTBR:EH-5T-TTC (c) binary PTB7-Th:PC71BM and (d) ternary PTB7-Th:PC71BM:EH-5T-TTC. <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

*Lethy Krishnan Jagadamma, Rupert G. D. Taylor, Alexander L. Kanibolotsky, Muhammad Tariq Sajjad, Iain A. Wright, Peter N. Horton, Simon J. Coles, Ifor D. W. Samuel and Peter J. Skabara
Highly efficient fullerene and non-fullerene based ternary organic solar cells incorporating a new tetrathiocin-cored semiconductor<\/strong>
Sustainable Energy Fuels, 2019, 3, 2087-2099
DOI: 10.1039\/C9SE00343F (Paper) <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Please follow this external link to read the full article: https:\/\/pubs.rsc.org\/lv\/content\/articlehtml\/2019\/se\/c9se00343f <\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Open Access: The article \u201cHighly efficient fullerene and non-fullerene based ternary organic solar cells incorporating a new tetrathiocin-cored semiconductor<\/em>\u201d by Lethy Krishnan Jagadamma, Rupert G. D. Taylor, Alexander L. Kanibolotsky, Muhammad Tariq Sajjad, Iain A. Wright, Peter N. Horton, Simon J. Coles, Ifor D. W. Samuel and Peter J. Skabara is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article\u2019s Creative Commons license, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the article\u2019s Creative Commons license and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. To view a copy of this license, visit http:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by\/3.0\/. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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