| Literature DB >> 25503869 |
Feng Liu1, Sunzida Ferdous, Eric Schaible, Alexander Hexemer, Matthew Church, Xiaodong Ding, Cheng Wang, Thomas P Russell.
Abstract
The mini-slot-die coater offers a simple, convenient, materials-efficient route to print bulk-heterojunction (BHJ) organic photovoltaics (OPVs) that show efficiencies similar to spin-coating. Grazing-incidence X-ray diffraction (GIXD) and GI small-angle X-ray scattering (GISAXS) methods are used in real time to characterize the active-layer formation during printing. A polymer-aggregation-phase-separation-crystallization mechanism for the evolution of the morphology describes the observations.Entities:
Keywords: X-ray diffraction; low bandgap polymers; morphology; organic photovoltaics
Year: 2014 PMID: 25503869 DOI: 10.1002/adma.201404040
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Adv Mater ISSN: 0935-9648 Impact factor: 30.849