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Innovative architectures to simultaneously enhance organic photovoltaic device stability and efficiency

Research Project

Project/Area Number 26889029
Research Category

Grant-in-Aid for Research Activity Start-up

Allocation TypeSingle-year Grants
Research Field Electronic materials/Electric materials
Research InstitutionThe University of Electro-Communications

Principal Investigator

VOHRA Varun  電気通信大学, 情報理工学(系)研究科, 助教 (10731713)

Project Period (FY) 2014-08-29 – 2016-03-31
Project Status Completed (Fiscal Year 2015)
Budget Amount *help
¥2,730,000 (Direct Cost: ¥2,100,000、Indirect Cost: ¥630,000)
Fiscal Year 2015: ¥1,300,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,000,000、Indirect Cost: ¥300,000)
Fiscal Year 2014: ¥1,430,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,100,000、Indirect Cost: ¥330,000)
Keywords有機エレクトロニクス / 有機太陽電池 / 分子配向 / 結晶化 / 分子濃度
Outline of Final Research Achievements

We have demonstrated that controlling the crystallinity and the vertical concentration gradient in regular organic solar cells can result in devices with fill factors (FF) as high as 67%. Furthermore, our polymer:fullerene active layers exhibit a crystallite orientation gradient which is favourable to inverted device architectures. Consequently, inverted devices display an even higher FF reaching 73% with a record PCE of 10.1%.
We successfully developed a process (transfer-printing) to fabricate inverted organic solar cells with the adequate donor-acceptor concentration gradient. Compared with the spin-coated reference devices, they display a 40% increase in FF and PCE.

Report

(3 results)
  • 2015 Annual Research Report   Final Research Report ( PDF )
  • 2014 Annual Research Report
  • Research Products

    (7 results)

All 2016 2015 2014 Other

All Int'l Joint Research (2 results) Journal Article (3 results) (of which Int'l Joint Research: 1 results,  Peer Reviewed: 3 results,  Open Access: 1 results,  Acknowledgement Compliant: 2 results) Presentation (1 results) (of which Int'l Joint Research: 1 results) Book (1 results)

  • [Int'l Joint Research] ICMAB(Spain)

    • Related Report
      2015 Annual Research Report
  • [Int'l Joint Research] ISMAC-CNR(Italy)

    • Related Report
      2015 Annual Research Report
  • [Journal Article] Investigating the effect of solvent boiling temperature on the active layer morphology of diffusive bilayer solar cells2016

    • Author(s)
      V. Vohra, B. Dorling, K. Higashimine, H. Murata
    • Journal Title

      Applied Physics Express

      Volume: 9 Issue: 1 Pages: 012301-012301

    • DOI

      10.7567/apex.9.012301

    • NAID

      210000137748

    • Related Report
      2015 Annual Research Report
    • Peer Reviewed / Int'l Joint Research / Acknowledgement Compliant
  • [Journal Article] Efficient inverted polymer solar cells employing favourable molecular orientation2015

    • Author(s)
      Varun Vohra, Kazuaki Kawashima, Takeshi Kakara, Tomoyuki Koganezawa, Itaru Osaka, Kazuo Takimiya, Hideyuki Murata
    • Journal Title

      Nature Photonics

      Volume: 9 Issue: 6 Pages: 1-1

    • DOI

      10.1038/nphoton.2015.84

    • NAID

      120005998432

    • Related Report
      2015 Annual Research Report
    • Peer Reviewed / Open Access / Acknowledgement Compliant
  • [Journal Article] Achieving High Efficiency and Stablility in Inverted Organic Solar Cells Fabricated by Laminated Gold Leaf as Top Electrodes2014

    • Author(s)
      N. T. Razali, I. Osaka, K. Takimiya, V. Vohra, H. Murata
    • Journal Title

      Applied Physics Express

      Volume: 7 Issue: 11 Pages: 111602-111602

    • DOI

      10.7567/apex.7.111602

    • Related Report
      2014 Annual Research Report
    • Peer Reviewed
  • [Presentation] Approaching 10% power conversion efficiencies using a low bandgap polymer (PNTz4T):PC71BM single active layers solar cells2015

    • Author(s)
      V. Vohra, I. Osaka, K. Takimiya, H. Murata
    • Organizer
      13th European Conference on Molecular Electronics (ECME2015)
    • Place of Presentation
      Strasbourg, France
    • Year and Date
      2015-09-01
    • Related Report
      2015 Annual Research Report
    • Int'l Joint Research
  • [Book] Chemical Science of π-electron systems2015

    • Author(s)
      V. Vohra, K. Higashimine, K. Ohdaira, S. Tsuzaki, H. Murata
    • Publisher
      Spinger
    • Related Report
      2015 Annual Research Report

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Published: 2014-09-09   Modified: 2017-05-10  

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