Effect of PVP-Capped ZnO Nanoparticles with Enhanced Charge Transport on the Performance of P3HT/PCBM Polymer Solar Cells

作者：Ok-Sik Kim, JinBeom Kwon, Sae-Wan Kim, Binrui Xu, Kyeong-Ho Seo, Cheol-Eon Park, WooJong Do, Jin‐Hyuk Bae, Shin‐Won Kang · 发表于：Polymers · 年份：2019 · DOI：10.3390/polym11111818 · 被引用次数：32 · 研究领域：Organic Electronics and Photovoltaics、Conducting polymers and applications、Thin-Film Transistor Technologies

We attempted surface modification in ZnO nanoparticles (NPs) synthesized by the sol-gel process with polyvinyl pyrrolidone (PVP) applied to bulk-heterojunction polymer solar cells (PSCs) as an electron transport layer (ETL). In general, ZnO NPs have trap sites due to oxygen vacancies which capture electrons and degrade the performance of the PSCs. Devices with six different PVP:Zn ratios (0.615 g, 1.230 g, 1.846 g, 2.460 g, 3.075 g, and 3.690 g) were fabricated for surface modification, and the optimized PVP:Zn ratio (2.460 g) was found for PSCs based on P3HT/PCBM. The power conversion efficiency (PCE) of the fabricated PSCs with PVP-capped ZnO exhibited a significant increase of approximately 21% in PCE and excellent air-stability as compared with the uncapped ZnO-based PSCs.