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The impact of morphology on the performance of green-solvent processed organic electronic devices

Author:
Burgers, Mark Alan
Degree Grantor:
University of California, Santa Barbara. Chemistry
Degree Supervisor:
Martin Moskovits and Mattanjah S. de Vries
Place of Publication:
[Santa Barbara, Calif.]
Publisher:
University of California, Santa Barbara
Creation Date:
2016
Issued Date:
2016
Topics:
Materials science, Physics, and Physical chemistry
Keywords:
Interface Chemistry
Green Chemistry
Green Solvents
Non-Fullerene Acceptors
Organic Electronics
Organic Photovoltaics
Genres:
Online resources and Dissertations, Academic
Dissertation:
Ph.D.--University of California, Santa Barbara, 2016
Description:

Organic photovoltaics have received a large amount of attention in recent years due to their potential for relatively low cost fabrication, light weight and flexible devices, and because of their high solubility, inkjet printing and roll-to-roll processing. Thanks to the new development of novel materials and methods for controlling self-assembly, organic photovoltaics have achieved over 10% efficiencies. One issue that has received relatively little attention is the types of solvents used for processing, mainly their toxicity and sustainability. Recently we discovered the use of a green solvent, 2-MeTHF, from which to process the semiconducting layer. Here we further investigate the feasibility of using 2-MeTHF as a processing solvent for a wide array of molecular donors by device fabrication, electrical and morphological characterization. We also investigated the processing of two novel non-fullerene acceptors from 2-MeTHF, and characterized their morphologies and evaluated their efficiencies.

Physical Description:
1 online resource (130 pages)
Format:
Text
Collection(s):
UCSB electronic theses and dissertations
ARK:
ark:/48907/f3mw2hbs
ISBN:
9781369576047
Catalog System Number:
990047511710203776
Rights:
Inc.icon only.dark In Copyright
Copyright Holder:
Mark Burgers
File Description
Access: Public access
Burgers_ucsb_0035D_13261.pdf pdf (Portable Document Format)