Nature Communications (Feb 2017)
Abnormal strong burn-in degradation of highly efficient polymer solar cells caused by spinodal donor-acceptor demixing
- Ning Li,
- José Darío Perea,
- Thaer Kassar,
- Moses Richter,
- Thomas Heumueller,
- Gebhard J. Matt,
- Yi Hou,
- Nusret S. Güldal,
- Haiwei Chen,
- Shi Chen,
- Stefan Langner,
- Marvin Berlinghof,
- Tobias Unruh,
- Christoph J. Brabec
Affiliations
- Ning Li
- Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Institute of Materials for Electronics and Energy Technology (i-MEET), Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen-Nürnberg
- José Darío Perea
- Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Institute of Materials for Electronics and Energy Technology (i-MEET), Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen-Nürnberg
- Thaer Kassar
- Department of Physics, Crystallography and Structural Physics, Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen-Nürnberg
- Moses Richter
- Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Institute of Materials for Electronics and Energy Technology (i-MEET), Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen-Nürnberg
- Thomas Heumueller
- Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Institute of Materials for Electronics and Energy Technology (i-MEET), Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen-Nürnberg
- Gebhard J. Matt
- Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Institute of Materials for Electronics and Energy Technology (i-MEET), Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen-Nürnberg
- Yi Hou
- Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Institute of Materials for Electronics and Energy Technology (i-MEET), Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen-Nürnberg
- Nusret S. Güldal
- Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Institute of Materials for Electronics and Energy Technology (i-MEET), Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen-Nürnberg
- Haiwei Chen
- Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Institute of Materials for Electronics and Energy Technology (i-MEET), Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen-Nürnberg
- Shi Chen
- Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Institute of Materials for Electronics and Energy Technology (i-MEET), Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen-Nürnberg
- Stefan Langner
- Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Institute of Materials for Electronics and Energy Technology (i-MEET), Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen-Nürnberg
- Marvin Berlinghof
- Department of Physics, Crystallography and Structural Physics, Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen-Nürnberg
- Tobias Unruh
- Department of Physics, Crystallography and Structural Physics, Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen-Nürnberg
- Christoph J. Brabec
- Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Institute of Materials for Electronics and Energy Technology (i-MEET), Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen-Nürnberg
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms14541
- Journal volume & issue
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Vol. 8,
no. 1
pp. 1 – 9
Abstract
Liet al. study degradation in organic photovoltaics from a morphological perspective. They find that donor and acceptor phases undergo excessive demixing via spinodal decomposition resulting in a reduction of charge generation. Demixing is due to the inherently low miscibility of both materials.
