Impedance Spectroscopy Study of Organic Photovoltaic Cells with an Inkjet Printed Hole-Extracting Graphene Oxide Layer

Abstract

This paper deals with the study of light conversion efficiency of organic photovoltaic cells with an inkjet-printed graphene oxide layer. The graphene oxide is used in this experiment as a hole-extracting, electron blocking layer in bulk heterojunction organic solar cells based on DPP(TBFu) 2 :PC 60 BM blend. It is also studied the influence of the GO reduction (chemically, by UV radiation and by annealing) on the final efficiency of photovoltaic conversion. Power conversion efficiency and the transport of charge carriers are evaluated by measuring of current-voltage characteristics and mainly by impedance spectroscopy analysis. In this regard, using of graphene oxide and its reduced form showed negative influence on the device performance caused by an inefficient charge carrier collection at the short-circuit condition.