Crystalline Organization of a Methanofullerene as Used for Plastic Solar‐Cell Applications
- 17 May 2004
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Wiley in Advanced Materials
- Vol. 16 (9-10) , 802-806
- https://doi.org/10.1002/adma.200306372
Abstract
Crystalline organization of a methanofullerene, [6,6]‐phenyl C61 butyric acid methyl ester (PCBM), as achieved in various thin‐film deposition techniques, is reported. Mechanically stable, and thus self‐supporting, thin films obtained via fast solvent evaporation techniques are found to be composed of densely and homogeneously distributed PCBM nanocrystals with various crystallographic orientations, as shown schematically in the Figure.Keywords
This publication has 23 references indexed in Scilit:
- Influence of the solvent on the crystal structure of PCBM and the efficiency of MDMO-PPV:PCBM ‘plastic’ solar cellsChemical Communications, 2003
- High‐Performance Polymer Solar Cells of an Alternating Polyfluorene Copolymer and a Fullerene DerivativeAdvanced Materials, 2003
- Fabrication of bulk heterojunction plastic solar cells by screen printingApplied Physics Letters, 2001
- 2.5% efficient organic plastic solar cellsApplied Physics Letters, 2001
- Two-dimensional charge transport in self-organized, high-mobility conjugated polymersNature, 1999
- Morphology of composites of semiconducting polymers mixed with C60Synthetic Metals, 1996
- Polymer Photovoltaic Cells: Enhanced Efficiencies via a Network of Internal Donor-Acceptor HeterojunctionsScience, 1995
- Preparation and Characterization of Fulleroid and Methanofullerene DerivativesThe Journal of Organic Chemistry, 1995
- Crystallization kineticsPhysical Review B, 1994
- C60: BuckminsterfullereneNature, 1985