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Absence of structural impact of noble nanoparticles on P3HT:PCBM blends for plasmon-enhanced bulk-heterojunction organic solar cells probed by synchrotron GI-XRD

Lilliu, Samuele, Alsari, Mejd, Bikondoa, Oier, MacDonald, John Emyr ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5504-1692 and Dahlem, Marcus S. 2015. Absence of structural impact of noble nanoparticles on P3HT:PCBM blends for plasmon-enhanced bulk-heterojunction organic solar cells probed by synchrotron GI-XRD. Scientific Reports 5 , 10633. 10.1038/srep10633

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Abstract

The incorporation of noble metal nanoparticles, displaying localized surface plasmon resonance, in the active area of donor-acceptor bulk-heterojunction organic photovoltaic devices is an industrially compatible light trapping strategy, able to guarantee better absorption of the incident photons and give an efficiency improvement between 12% and 38%. In the present work, we investigate the effect of Au and Ag nanoparticles blended with P3HT: PCBM on the P3HT crystallization dynamics by synchrotron grazing incidence X-ray diffraction. We conclude that the presence of (1) 80 nm Au, (2) mix of 5 nm, 50 nm, 80 nm Au, (3) 40 nm Ag, and (4) 10 nm, 40 nm, 60 nm Ag colloidal nanoparticles, at different concentrations below 0.3 wt% for Au and below 0.1% for Ag in P3HT: PCBM blends, does not affect the behaviour of the blends themselves.

Item Type: Article
Date Type: Published Online
Status: Published
Schools: Physics and Astronomy
Subjects: Q Science > QC Physics
Publisher: Nature Publishing Group
ISSN: 2045-2322
Funders: EPSRC
Date of First Compliant Deposit: 30 March 2016
Date of Acceptance: 13 April 2015
Last Modified: 04 May 2023 23:57
URI: https://orca.cardiff.ac.uk/id/eprint/84430

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