3D Nanoscale Morphology Characterization of Ternary Organic Solar Cells
Ting Yu
Énergie, Matériaux et Télécommunications, Institut National de la Recherche Scientifique (INRS), Varennes, Québec, J3X 1S2 Canada
Search for more papers by this authorWanting He
Énergie, Matériaux et Télécommunications, Institut National de la Recherche Scientifique (INRS), Varennes, Québec, J3X 1S2 Canada
Search for more papers by this authorMaziar Jafari
Département de Chimie, Université du Québec à Montréal, Montréal, Québec, H2L 2C4 Canada
Search for more papers by this authorTugrul Guner
Énergie, Matériaux et Télécommunications, Institut National de la Recherche Scientifique (INRS), Varennes, Québec, J3X 1S2 Canada
Search for more papers by this authorPandeng Li
Énergie, Matériaux et Télécommunications, Institut National de la Recherche Scientifique (INRS), Varennes, Québec, J3X 1S2 Canada
Search for more papers by this authorMohamed Siaj
Département de Chimie, Université du Québec à Montréal, Montréal, Québec, H2L 2C4 Canada
Search for more papers by this authorRicardo Izquierdo
Département de Génie Électrique, École de Technologie Supérieure, Montréal, Québec, H3C 1K3 Canada
Search for more papers by this authorBaoquan Sun
Jiangsu Key Laboratory for Carbon-Based Functional Materials and Devices Institute of Functional Nano and Soft Materials (FUNSOM), Joint International Research Laboratory of Carbon-Based Functional Materials and Devices, Soochow University, Suzhou, 215123 P. R. China
Search for more papers by this authorGregory C. Welch
Department of Chemistry, University of Calgary, Calgary, Alberta, T2N 1N4 Canada
Search for more papers by this authorAycan Yurtsever
Énergie, Matériaux et Télécommunications, Institut National de la Recherche Scientifique (INRS), Varennes, Québec, J3X 1S2 Canada
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Dongling Ma
Énergie, Matériaux et Télécommunications, Institut National de la Recherche Scientifique (INRS), Varennes, Québec, J3X 1S2 Canada
E-mail: [email protected]
Search for more papers by this authorTing Yu
Énergie, Matériaux et Télécommunications, Institut National de la Recherche Scientifique (INRS), Varennes, Québec, J3X 1S2 Canada
Search for more papers by this authorWanting He
Énergie, Matériaux et Télécommunications, Institut National de la Recherche Scientifique (INRS), Varennes, Québec, J3X 1S2 Canada
Search for more papers by this authorMaziar Jafari
Département de Chimie, Université du Québec à Montréal, Montréal, Québec, H2L 2C4 Canada
Search for more papers by this authorTugrul Guner
Énergie, Matériaux et Télécommunications, Institut National de la Recherche Scientifique (INRS), Varennes, Québec, J3X 1S2 Canada
Search for more papers by this authorPandeng Li
Énergie, Matériaux et Télécommunications, Institut National de la Recherche Scientifique (INRS), Varennes, Québec, J3X 1S2 Canada
Search for more papers by this authorMohamed Siaj
Département de Chimie, Université du Québec à Montréal, Montréal, Québec, H2L 2C4 Canada
Search for more papers by this authorRicardo Izquierdo
Département de Génie Électrique, École de Technologie Supérieure, Montréal, Québec, H3C 1K3 Canada
Search for more papers by this authorBaoquan Sun
Jiangsu Key Laboratory for Carbon-Based Functional Materials and Devices Institute of Functional Nano and Soft Materials (FUNSOM), Joint International Research Laboratory of Carbon-Based Functional Materials and Devices, Soochow University, Suzhou, 215123 P. R. China
Search for more papers by this authorGregory C. Welch
Department of Chemistry, University of Calgary, Calgary, Alberta, T2N 1N4 Canada
Search for more papers by this authorAycan Yurtsever
Énergie, Matériaux et Télécommunications, Institut National de la Recherche Scientifique (INRS), Varennes, Québec, J3X 1S2 Canada
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Dongling Ma
Énergie, Matériaux et Télécommunications, Institut National de la Recherche Scientifique (INRS), Varennes, Québec, J3X 1S2 Canada
E-mail: [email protected]
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It is highly desired to develop advanced characterization techniques to explore the 3D nanoscale morphology of the complicated blend film of ternary organic solar cells (OSCs). Here, ternary OSCs are constructed by incorporating the nonfullerene acceptor perylenediimide (PDI)-diketopyrrolopyrrole (DPP)-PDI and their morphology is characterized in depth to understand the performance variation. In particular, photoinduced force microscopy (PiFM) coupled with infrared laser spectroscopy is conducted to qualitatively study the distribution of donor and acceptors in the blend film by chemical identification and to quantitatively probe the segmentation of domains and the domain size distribution after PDI-DPP-PDI acceptor incorporation by PiFM imaging and data processing. In addition, the energy-filtered transmission electron microscopy with energy loss spectra is utilized to visualize the nanoscale morphology of ultrathin cross-sections in the configuration of the real ternary device for the first time in the field of photovoltaics. These measurements allow to “view” the surface and cross-sectional morphology and provide strong evidence that the PDI-DPP-PDI acceptor can suppress the aggregation of the fullerene molecules and generate the homogenous morphology with a higher-level of the molecularly mixed phase, which can prevent the charge recombination and stabilize the morphology of photoactive layer.
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