The following articles were published with support from the Center for Interface Science: Solar Electric Materials (CISSEM), an Energy Frontier Research Center funded by the U.S. Department of Energy, Office of Science, Office of Basic Energy Sciences, under Award Number DE-SC0001084. CISSEM researchers at The University of Arizona, Georgia Tech, NREL, Princeton University, and the University of Washington are focused on interface science important for the development of thin-film photovoltaic technologies such as organic photovoltaics.
Natalia V Doubina, Judith L. Jenkins, Sergio Paniagua, Katherine A. Mazzio, Gordon A MacDonald, Alex K-Y. Jen, Neal R. Armstrong, Seth R. Marder, Christine K. Luscombe, Langmuir, 2012, 28 (3), 1900–1908. "Surface-Initiated Synthesis of Poly(3-methylthiophene) from Indium Tin Oxide and its Electrochemical Properties."
Brian Zacher and Neal R. Armstrong, J. Phys. Chem. C, 2011, 115 (51), 25496–25507. "Modeling the Effects of Molecular Length Scale Electrode Heterogeneity in Organic Solar Cells."
Nathan W Polaske, Hsiao-Chu Lin, Anna Tang, Mayank Mayukh, Luis E. Oquendo, John T. Green, Erin L Ratcliff, Neal R. Armstrong, Scott Saavedra, Dominic V. McGrath, Langmuir, 2011, 27 (24), 14900–14909. "Phosphonic Acid Functionalized Asymmetric Phthalocyanines: Synthesis, Modification of Indium Tin Oxide (ITO), and Charge Transfer."
N. Edwin Widjonarko, Erin L. Ratcliff, Craig L. Perkins, Ajaya K. Sigdel, Andriy Zakutayev, Paul F. Ndione, Dane T. Gillaspie, David S. Ginley, Dana C. Olson, Joseph J. Berry, Thin Solid Films, 2012, 520(10), 3813-3818.
"Sputtered nickel oxide thin film for efficient hole transport layer in polymer-fullerene bulk-heterojunction organic solar cell."
Erin L. Ratcliff, Jens Meyer, K. Xerxes Steirer, Andres Garcia, Joseph J. Berry, David S. Ginley, Dana C. Olson, Antoine Kahn, Neal R. Armstrong, Chem. Mater., 2011, 23 (22), 4988–5000. "Evidence for near-Surface NiOOH Species in Solution-Processed NiOx Selective Interlayer Materials: Impact on Energetics and the Performance of Polymer Bulk Heterojunction Photovoltaics."
Peter J. Hotchkiss, Simon C. Jones, Sergio A. Paniagua, Asha Sharma, Bernard Kippelen, Neal R. Armstrong, and Seth R. Marder, Acc. Chem. Res., 2012, 45 (3), 337-346. "The Modification of Indium Tin Oxide with Phosphonic Acids: Mechanism of Binding, Tuning of Surface Properties, and Potential for Use in Organic Electronic Applications."
Kristina M. Knesting, Peter J. Hotchkiss, Bradley A. MacLeod, Seth R. Marder, David S. Ginger, Advanced Materials, 2012, 24 (5), 642–646. "Spatially Modulating Interfacial Properties of Transparent Conductive Oxides: Patterning Work Function with Phosphonic Acid Self-Assembled Monolayers."
Mary P. Steele, Leah L. Kelly, Nahid Ilyas, Oliver L. A. Monti, Journal of Chemical Physics, 135, 124702 (2011). "Resonance and localization effects at a dipolar organic semiconductor interface."
Jayan Thomas, Palash Gangopadhyay, Emre Araci, Robert A. Norwood, Nasser Peyghambarian, Adv. Mater., 2011, 23(41), 4782–4787. "Nanoimprinting by Melt Processing: An Easy Technique to Fabricate Versatile Nanostructures."
Aleksandrs Terentjevs, Mary P. Steele, Micheal L. Blumfeld, Nahid Ilyas, Leah L. Kelly, Eduardo Fabiano, Oliver Luca Andrea Monti, Fabio Della Sala "Interfacial Electronic Structure of the Dipolar Vanadyl Naphthalocyanine on Au (111): “Push-back” vs Dipolar Effects" J. Phys. Chem. C, 2011, 115(43), pp 21128-21138
Byoungnam Park, Y. J. Kim, Samuel Graham, Elsa Reichmanis, ACS Appl. Mater. Interfaces, 2011, 3(9), 3545-3551. "Change in Electronic States in the Accumulation Layer at Interfaces in a Poly(3-hexylthiophene) Field-Effect Transistor and the Impact of Encapsulation"
A. Zakutayev, J.D. Perkins, P.A. Parilla, N.E. Widjonarko, A.K. Sigdel, J.J. Berry and D.S. Ginley, MRS Communications, 2011, 1, 23-26. “Zn–Ni–Co–O wide-band-gap p-type conductive oxides with high work functions.”
Diogenes Placencia, Weining Wang, Jeremy Gantz, Judith L. Jenkins, Neal R. Armstrong, J. Phys. Chem. C, 2011, 115(38), 18873-18884. “Highly Photoactive Titanyl Phthalocyanine Polymorphs as Textured Donor Layers in Organic Solar Cells.”
J. Meyer, K. Zilberberg, T. Riedl, A. Kahn, J. Appl. Phys., 2011, 110, 033710. "Electronic structure of Vanadium pentoxide: An efficient hole injector for organic electronic materials."
K. Xerxes Steirer, Paul F. Ndione, N. Edwin Widjonarko, Matthew T. Lloyd, Jens Meyer, Erin L. Ratcliff, Antoine Kahn, Neal R. Armstrong, Calvin J. Curtis, David S. Ginley, Joseph J. Berry, Dana C. Olson, Adv. Energy. Mater., 2011, 1(5), 813-820. "Enhanced Efficiency in Plastic Solar Cells via Energy Matched Solution Processed NiOx Interlayers"
Hyeunseok Cheun, John D. Berrigan, Yinhua Zhou, Mathieu Fenoll, Jaewon Shim, Canek Fuentes-Hernandez, Kenneth H. Sandhage, Bernard Kippelen, Energy Environ. Sci., 2011, 4, 3456-3460. "Roles of thermally-induced vertical phase segregation and crystallization on the photovoltaic performance of bulk heterojunction inverted polymer solar cells"
Yongjin Kim, Namsu Kim, Hyungchul Kim, Samuel Graham "The development of thin film barriers for encapsulating organic electronics" Proc. - Electron. Compon. Conf., 2011, 2101 - 2106
Ken Okamoto, Christine K. Luscombe, Polym. Chem., 2011, 2, 2424-2434."Controlled polymerizations for the synthesis of semiconducting conjugated polymers."
Mayank Mayukh, Chin-Wei Lu, Edgardo Hernandez, Dominic V. McGrath, Chemistry - A European Journal, 2011, 17(30), 8472-8478. "Peripheral Substitution of a Near-IR-Absorbing Soluble Phthalocyanine Using “Click” Chemistry."
Matthew C. Schalnat, Adam M. Hawkridge, Jeanne E. Pemberton, J. Phys. Chem. C, 2011, 115(28), 13717-13724., "Raman Spectroscopy of the Reaction of Thin Films of Solid-State Benzene with Vapor-Deposited Ag, Mg, and Al."
Anne M. Simon, Nicole E. Marucci, Scott Saavedra, Anal. Chem., 2011, 83(14), 5762-5766. "Measuring Photochemical Kinetics in Submonolayer Films by Transient ATR Spectroscopy on a Multimode Planar Waveguide."
Erin L. Ratcliff, Brian Zacher, Neal R. Armstrong, J. Phys. Chem. Lett., 2011, 2(11), 1337–1350.
"Perspective - Selective Interlayers and Contacts in Organic Photovoltaic Cells."
Kenneth Graham, Jianguo Mei, Romain Stalder, Jae Won Shim, Hyeunseok Cheun, Fred Steffy, Franky So, Bernard Kippelen, John R. Reynolds, Appl. Mater. Interfaces, 2011, 3(4), 1210-1215. “Polydimethylsiloxane as a Macromolecular Additive for Enhanced Performance of Molecular Bulk Heterojunction Organic Solar Cells.”
Jens Meyer, Antoine Kahn, J. Photon. Energy, 2011, 1, 011109. “Electronic structure of molybdenum-oxide films and associated charge injection mechanisms in organic devices.”
Yinhua Zhou, Hyeunseok Cheun, Seungkeun Choi, Canek Fuentes-Hernandez, Bernard Kippelen,
Organic Electronics, 2011, 12(5), 827-831.“Optimization of a polymer top electrode for inverted semitransparent organic solar cells.”
Peter J. Hotchkiss, Michał Malicki, Anthony J. Giordano, Neal R. Armstrong, and Seth R. Marder, J. Mater. Chem., 2011, 21, 3107-3112. “Characterization of phosphonic acid binding to zinc oxide.”
Natalia Doubina, Sergio A. Paniagua, Alexandra V. Soldatova, Alex K. Y. Jen, Seth R. Marder, and Christine K. Luscombe, Macromolecules, 2011, 44 (3), 512-520. “Steric Effects of the Initiator Substituent Position on the Externally Initiated Polymerization of 2-Bromo-5-iodo-3-hexylthiophene.”
