TY  - JOUR
AU  - Guo, Shuai
AU  - Brandt, Christian
AU  - Andreev, Thomas
AU  - Metwalli, Ezzeldin
AU  - Wang, Weijia
AU  - Perlich, Jan
AU  - Müller-Buschbaum, Peter
TI  - First Step into Space: Performance and Morphological Evolution of P3HT:PCBM Bulk Heterojunction Solar Sells under AM0 Illumination
JO  - ACS applied materials & interfaces
VL  - 6
IS  - 20
SN  - 1944-8252
CY  - Washington, DC
PB  - Soc.
M1  - PUBDB-2015-01004
SP  - 17902 - 17910
PY  - 2014
N1  - (c) American Chemical Society. Post referee full text in progress.
AB  - P3HT (poly(3-hexylthiophene-2,5-diyl)):PC<sub>61</sub>BM ([6,6]-phenyl-C61 butyric acid methyl ester) bulk heterojunction solar cells are fabricated and characterized as a function of solar intensity, temperature, and aging at vacuum conditions under illumination with AM0 illumination for testing potential use in space applications. The evolution of the inner film morphology is probed with grazing incidence X-ray scattering techniques and correlated with the evolution of the efficiency during aging. Grazing incidence wide-angle X-ray scattering shows almost no change of the crystalline structure of the P3HT:PCBM films due to aging. In contrast, the morphological evolution on the mesoscale extracted from grazing incidence small-angle X-ray scattering can explain the observed decay of the overall efficiency. The behavior at high solar intensities as well as elevated temperatures suggests that organic solar cells have high potential for space applications in the future.
LB  - PUB:(DE-HGF)16
UR  - <Go to ISI:>//WOS:000343684200068
C6  - pmid:25255423
DO  - DOI:10.1021/am504608p
UR  - https://bib-pubdb1.desy.de/record/206540
ER  -