Morphology control and material mixing by high-temperature organic vapor-phase deposition and its application to thin-film solar cells
- 1 July 2005
- journal article
- Published by AIP Publishing in Journal of Applied Physics
- Vol. 98 (1) , 014906
- https://doi.org/10.1063/1.1941480
Abstract
Organic vapor-phase deposition is used to grow photovoltaic cells consisting of molecular compounds that require high-evaporation temperatures. The organic crystal size and film morphology are controlled by adjusting the source evaporation temperature, substrate temperature, carrier gas flow rate, and chamber pressure. The resulting surface morphology produces a highly folded donor–acceptor interface with a fourfold increase in area compared with a planar heterojunction, leading to an increased exciton diffusion efficiency, and hence an 80% increase in photovoltaic cell power conversion efficiency. Mixed organic layers with controlled constituent ratios and layer thicknesses are grown by the simultaneous codeposition of multiple source materials. Photovoltaic cells comprised of a copper phthalocyanine:C60 mixed layer show comparable performance to analogous vacuum-deposited cells.This publication has 35 references indexed in Scilit:
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