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Stability of organic solar cells with PCDTBT donor polymer: An interlaboratory study

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This work is part of the interlaboratory collaboration to study the stability of organic solar cells containing PCDTBT polymer as a donor material. The varieties of the OPV devices with different device architectures, electrode materials, encapsulation, and device dimensions were prepared by seven research laboratories. Sets of identical devices were aged according to four different protocols: shelf lifetime, laboratory weathering under simulated illumination at ambient temperature, laboratory weathering under simulated illumination, and elevated temperature (65 °C) and daylight outdoor weathering under sunlight. The results generated in this study allow us to outline several general conclusions related to PCDTBT-based bulk heterojunction (BHJ) solar cells. The results herein reported can be considered as practical guidance for the realization of stabilization approaches in BHJ solar cells containing PCDTBT.

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ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

This work was supported by the European Commission’s StableNextSol COST Action MP1307.

(1) Sjoerd Veenstra, Santhosh Shanmugam, and Yulia Galagan acknowledge Solliance, a partnership of R&D organizations from the Netherlands, Belgium, and Germany working in thin film photovoltaic solar energy.

(2) Ana Charas acknowledges Fundação para a Ciência e Tecnologia (FCT-Portugal) for funding through the project UID/EEA/50008/2013.

(3) Vida Turkovic, Horst-Günter Rubahn, and Morten Madsen acknowledge ‘Det Frie Forskningsråd DFF FTP’ for funding of the project Stabil-O and Villum Foundation for funding of the project Compliant-PV, Project No. 13365.

(4) Gloria Zanotti is thankful to the Ente Nazionale Energia e Ambiente (ENEA) and to the Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs for a visitor post-doc fellowship to Ben Gurion University of the Negev.

(5) Tulus acknowledges the Ministry of Research, Technology and High Education, the Republic of Indonesia (RISET-Pro Scholarship). Tulus and Elizabeth von Hauff acknowledge Fundamental Research on Matter (FOM) (V0714M-13MV60) from the Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research (NWO) for funding.

(6) Rickard Hansson and Ellen Moons thank Dr. Jakub Rysz of the Institute of Physics, Jagiellonian University, for sharing device preparation details and also acknowledge financial support from the Swedish Research Council, Grant No. 2015-03778, the Swedish Energy Council, Contract No. 38327-1, and the Göran Gustafsson Foundation for Research in Natural Sciences and Medicine.

(7) L.F. Marsal, J. Ferre-Borrull, and J.G. Sánchez thank the Spanish Ministry of Economy, Industry and Competitiveness (MEIC) for grant numbers, TEC2015-71915-REDT and TEC2015-71324-R (MINECO/FEDER), the ICREA for the ICREA Academia Award, and the Catalan authority for project AGAUR 2017 SGR 1527.

(8) Francesca Brunetti B acknowledges the FP7-European Project No. 609788 “CHEETAH—Cost-reduction through material optimization and Higher EnErgy outpuT of solAr pHotovoltaic modules”.

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Authors and Affiliations

  1. Parc Mediterani de la Technologia, ICFO - Institut de Ciències Fotòniques, Castelldefels (Barcelona), 08860, Spain

    Laura Ciammaruchi

  2. Instituto de Telecomunicações, Instituto Superior Tecnico, Lisboa, P-1049-001, Portugal

    Ricardo Oliveira & Ana Charas

  3. Department of Physics and Astronomy, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, 1081 HV, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

    Tulus & Elizabeth von Hauff

  4. Center of the Polymer Technology, Agency for the Assessment and Application of Technology (BPPT), Jakarta, Indonesia

    Tulus

  5. CHOSE-Centre for Hybrid and Organic Solar Energy Department of Electronic Engineering, University of Rome Tor Vergata, Rome, 00133, Italy

    Giuseppina Polino & Francesca Brunetti

  6. Center for Advanced Biomaterials for Healthcare, Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia, Naples, 80125, Italy

    Giuseppina Polino

  7. Department of Engineering and Physics, Karlstad University, Karlstad, 65188, Sweden

    Rickard Hansson & Ellen Moons

  8. Center of Materials Technology and Photonics & Electrical Engineering Department, School of Applied Technology, Technological Educational Institute (TEI) of Crete, Heraklion, 71004, Greece

    Miron Krassas, George Kakavelakis & Emmanuel Kymakis

  9. Departament d’Enginyeria Electrònica Elèctrica i Automàtica, Universitat Rovira i Virgili, Tarragona, 43007, Spain

    José G. Sánchez, Josep Ferre-Borrull & Lluis F. Marsal

  10. Institute of Computational Physics, Zurich University of Applied Sciences, Winterthur, 8401, Switzerland

    Simon Züfle

  11. Fluxim AG, Winterthur, 8406, Switzerland

    Simon Züfle

  12. Center for Energy and Environmental Chemistry Jena (CEEC Jena), Friedrich Schiller University Jena, Jena, 07743, Germany

    Daniel Fluhr, Roland Roesch, Tobias Faber, Ulrich S. Schubert & Harald Hoppe

  13. Laboratory of Organic and Macromolecular Chemistry (IOMC), Friedrich Schiller University Jena, Jena, 07743, Germany

    Daniel Fluhr, Roland Roesch, Tobias Faber, Ulrich S. Schubert & Harald Hoppe

  14. Institute of Physics, TU Ilmenau, Ilmenau, 98693, Germany

    Daniel Fluhr

  15. ECN - Solliance, Eindhoven, 5656AE, the Netherlands

    Klaas Bakker & Sjoerd Veenstra

  16. Istituto di Struttura della Materia (ISM) - CNR, 00015, Monterotondo (Rm), Italy

    Gloria Zanotti

  17. Department of Solar Energy and Environmental Physics, Swiss Institute for Dryland Environmental and Energy Research, Jacob Blaustein Institutes for Desert Research, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Midreshet Ben-Gurion, 8499000, Israel

    Gloria Zanotti & Eugene A. Katz

  18. Ilse Katz Institute for Nanoscale Science & Technology, Ben Gurion University of the Negev, Beer Sheva, 8410501, Israel

    Eugene A. Katz

  19. VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland Ltd., Oulu, 90571, Finland

    Pälvi Apilo

  20. Superior School of Experimental Sciences and Technology, Universidad Rey Juan Carlos, Móstoles, 28933, Madrid, Spain

    Beatriz Romero

  21. Photonic Technologies Laboratory, TÜBİTAK MAM Materials Institute, 41470, Gebze, Kocaeli, Turkey

    Tülay Aslı Tumay, Elif Parlak, Vida Turkovic, Horst-Günter Rubahn & Morten Madsen

  22. Institute for Sustainable Energy, University of Malta, Marsaxlokk, MXK1531, Malta

    Luciano Mule Stagno

  23. Institute of Photonics and Nanotechnology, Vilnius University, Vilnius, LT-10257, Lithuania

    Vaidotas Kažukauskas

  24. Department of Physics & Astronomy, Pomona College, Claremont, California, 91711, USA

    David M. Tanenbaum

  25. TNO - Solliance, Eindhoven, 5656AE, the Netherlands

    Santhosh Shanmugam & Yulia Galagan

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Ciammaruchi, L., Oliveira, R., Charas, A. et al. Stability of organic solar cells with PCDTBT donor polymer: An interlaboratory study. Journal of Materials Research 33, 1909–1924 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1557/jmr.2018.163

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