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ACS Appl Mater Interfaces. 2017 Jun 28;9(25):21338-21345. doi: 10.1021/acsami.7b02155. Epub 2017 Jun 13.

Interfacial Reaction of Fulleropyrrolidines Affecting Organic Photovoltaic Performance.

ACS applied materials & interfaces

Makoto Karakawa, Takabumi Nagai

Affiliations

  1. Institute for Frontier Science Initiative, Kanazawa University , Kakuma-machi, Kanazawa, Ishikawa 920-1192, Japan.
  2. Fundamental Technology Group, Chemical R&D Center, Daikin Industries, Ltd., 1-1 Nishi Hitotsuya, Settsu, Osaka 566-8585, Japan.

PMID: 28574248 DOI: 10.1021/acsami.7b02155

Abstract

Fulleropyrrolidine derivatives are intrinsically basic owing to the amino group within the pyrrolidine structure. It can be predicted that the basicity of fulleropyrrolidine may affect the photovoltaic devices containing an acidic layer (e.g.

, PEDOT: PSS). To clarify the effect of basic fulleropyrrolidine derivatives, we synthesized compounds with an N-benzyl substituent group and fabricated organic photovoltaic (OPV) cells using this N-benzyl fulleropyrrolidine. A device structure with the ITO/PEDOT:PSS/organic layer (PTB7:fulleropyrrolidine)/Ca/Al showed high series resistance, short-circuit current density (J

Keywords: PEDOT:PSS layer; basicity; fullerene derivatives; interfacial reaction; organic photovoltaics

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