Proceedings of International Conference on Hybrid and Organic Photovoltaics (HOPV24)
Publication date: 6th February 2024
The ever-growing interest in understanding structure-stability-property relationships in emerging photovoltaics brings new opportunities and challenges to characterization techniques. Length and time scales are particularly important, for example, to probe compositional and structural heterogeneity within or across the device layers, though this problem is largely unsolved.[1] In this context, we will present how local structures/morphology and interactions can be resolved by state-of-the-art magnetic resonance spectroscopy and imaging techniques at high fields.[2-4] We will present in situ and ex situ capabilities for examining thin films at micron-to-submicron thicknesses. Gaining access to the local interfacial structures enables a number of questions in the areas of organic and hybrid PVs to be addressed including a better picture of bulk-heterojunction morphology in organic solar cells, diffusion of metal electrodes into photo-active layers, and film formation kinetics and molecules aggregation, passivation mechanism in perovskite solar cells, and instability and degradation reactions and kinetics.[4-7]
[1] Nature Reviews Materials 2022, 5, 910-930; Energy Environmental Science, 2020, 13, 3679-3692; [3] Advanced Materials 2022, 34, 2105943; [4]Advanced Functional Materials 2023, 2308616; [5] ACS Energy Letters 2023, 5, 2130-2140; [6] ACS Energy Letters 2023, 8, 3604-3613; [7] ACS Energy Letters 2022, 4, 1534-1543
We gratefully acknolwdge the support from the European Union (Horizon 2020, Grant No. 79509), and large-scale analytical facilities cofunded by IR INFRANALYTICS FR-2054, and University of Lille and CNRS, France.