Shielded gas annealing: the improvement of optical-electric properties in the PEDOT: PSS layer of polymer solar cells
GUILIN LIU1,
YING GUO2,3,
HUIMIN YAN2,3,
BINGJIE ZHU2,3,
HAINMIN YU2,
YIXIN ZHANG1,2,3,
GUOHUA LI2,4,3,*
Affiliation
- School of Internet of Things E ngineering, Jiangnan University, Wuxi 214122, China
- School of Science, Jiangnan University, Wuxi 214122, China
- Jiangsu Provincial Research Center of Light Industrial Optoelectro nic Engineering and Technology
- Jiangsu (Suntech) Institute for Photovoltaic Technology, Wuxi 214028, China
Abstract
In this paper, t he properties and morphology of p oly (3, 4 ethylenedioxythiophene): poly (styrene sulfonate) (PEDOT : PSS
films fabricated by spin coating and annealing process at different circumstance s were investigated in detail. Compared with
vacuum condition, it was found that films annealed in nitrogen have better contact morphology, transmission, and
conductivity. In addition, the roughness under nitrogen treatment is also better after spin coated active layer. Short circuit
current density and fill factor are improved by 65% and 22%, respectively . The annealing process in nitrogen process also
enhanced the open circuit voltage output because of the close contact interface. These result in an improvement of P ower
conv ersion efficiency by 147%..
Keywords
PEDOT: PSS, Annealing, Atmosphere, Performance.
Citation
GUILIN LIU, YING GUO, HUIMIN YAN, BINGJIE ZHU, HAINMIN YU, YIXIN ZHANG, GUOHUA LI, Shielded gas annealing: the improvement of optical-electric properties in the PEDOT: PSS layer of polymer solar cells, Optoelectronics and Advanced Materials - Rapid Communications, 9, 11-12, November-December 2015, pp.1448-1452 (2015).
Submitted at: March 11, 2014
Accepted at: Oct. 28, 2015