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Chemical Communications

Deterioration of bulk heterojunction organic photovoltaic devices by a minute amount of oxidized fullerene†

Yutaka Matsuo,*a   Ayako Ozu,a   Naoki Obata,ab   Naoya Fukuda,a   Hideyuki Tanakaa  and  Eiichi Nakamura*a  

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a Department of Chemistry, The University of Tokyo, 7-3-1 Hongo, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo 113-0033, Japan
E-mail: matsuo@chem.s.u-tokyo.ac.jp, nakamura@chem.s.u-tokyo.ac.jp
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b Mitsubishi Chemical Group Science and Technology Research Center, Inc., Yokohama 227-8502, Japan

Abstract

A chemical model of deterioration of a bulk heterojunction organic solar cell containing a photooxidized product of 1,4-bis(dimethylphenylsilylmethyl)[60]fullerene suggests that molecular oxygen degrades device performance by two mechanisms.

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DOI
https://doi.org/10.1039/C2CC30262D
Article type
Communication
Submitted
12 Jan 2012
Accepted
23 Feb 2012
First published
24 Feb 2012

Chem. Commun., 2012,48, 3878-3880

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Deterioration of bulk heterojunction organic photovoltaic devices by a minute amount of oxidized fullerene

Y. Matsuo, A. Ozu, N. Obata, N. Fukuda, H. Tanaka and E. Nakamura, Chem. Commun., 2012, 48, 3878 DOI: 10.1039/C2CC30262D

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