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.
Jeremy Gantz, Diogenes Placencia, Anthony J Giordano, Seth R. Marder, and Neal R. Armstrong, J. Phys. Chem. C, 2013, 117(3), 1205-1216. "Influence of Electrode Surface Composition and Energetics on Small-Molecule Organic Solar Cell Performance: Polar Versus Non-Polar Donors on ITO Contacts.
Eung-Gun Kim, Jean-Luc Brédas, Organic Electronics, 2013, 14(2), 569-574. "The nature of the aluminum–aluminum oxide interface: A nanoscale picture of the interfacial structure and energy-level alignment."
Paul F. Ndione, Andres Garcia, N. Edwin Widjonarko, Ajaya K. Sigdel, K. Xerxes Steirer, Dana C. Olson, Philip A. Parilla, David S. Ginley, Neal R. Armstrong, Robin E. Richards, Erin L. Ratcliff, Joseph J. Berry, Adv. Energy Mater., 2013, 3(4), 524–531. "Highly-Tunable Nickel Cobalt Oxide as a Low-Temperature P-Type Contact in Organic Photovoltaic Devices."
B. Cocilovo, A. Amooali, S. Shahin, S. Islam, B. Au Thanh Duong, M. Campbell, P. Gangopadhyay, J. Thomas, R. A. Norwood, Renewable Energy and the Environment Optics and Photonics Congress, JM5A.16, 2012. "The Effect of Diffraction Gratings on Absorption in P3HT:PCBM Layers."
Yinhua Zhou, Canek Fuentes-Hernandez, Jae Won Shim, Talha Mansur Khan, Bernard Kippelen, 2012, Energy Environ. Sci., 2012, 5(12), 9827-9832. “High performance polymeric charge recombination layer for organic tandem solar cells.”
Gordon A. MacDonald , P. Alex Veneman , Diogenes Placencia , and Neal R. Armstrong, ACS Nano, 2012, 6 (11), 9623–9636. "Electrical Property Heterogeneity At Transparent Conductive Oxide/Organic Semiconductor Interfaces: Mapping Contact Ohmicity Using Conducting-Tip Atomic Force Microscopy."
Jae Won Shim, Hyeunseok Cheun, Amir Dindar, Yunsang Kim, Yinhua Zhou, Canek Fuentes-Hernandez, Do-Kyung Hwang, Joseph W. Perry, Bernard Kippelen, 2012, J. Mater. Res., 2013, 28(3), 535-540. "Indium tin oxide modified by titanium dioxide nanoparticles dispersed in poly(N-vinylpyrrolidone) for use as an electron-collecting layer in organic solar cells with an inverted structure."
Jae Won Shim, Yinhua Zhou, Canek Fuentes-Hernandez, Amir Dindar, Zelei Guan, Hyeunseok Cheun, Antoine Kahn, Bernard Kippelen, Solar Energy Materials and Solar Cells, 2012, Volume 107, Pages 51-55. "Studies of the optimization of recombination layers for inverted tandem polymer solar cells."
J. W. Shim, H. Cheun, J. Meyer, C. Fuentes-Hernandez, A. Dindar, Y. H. Zhou, D. K. Hwang, A. Kahn, and B. Kippelen, Appl. Phys. Lett., 2012, 101(7), 073303. "Polyvinylpyrrolidone-modified indium tin oxide as an electron-collecting electrode for inverted polymer solar cells."
Oliver L.A. Monti, J.Phys. Chem. Lett., 2012, 3, 2342-2351. "Understanding Interfacial Electronic Structure and Charge Transfer: An Electrostatic Perspective."
Andres Garcia, Gregory C. Welch, Erin L. Ratcliff, David S. Ginley, Guillermo C. Bazan, Dana C. Olson, Advanced Materials, 2012, 24(39), 5368-5373. "Improvement of Interfacial Contacts for New Small-Molecule Bulk-Heterojunction Organic Photovoltaics."
Christopher Wood, Hong Li, Paul Winget, and Jean-Luc Brédas, J. Phys. Chem. C, 2012, 116 (36), pp 19125–19133. “Binding Modes of Fluorinated Benzylphosphonic Acids on the Polar ZnO Surface and Impact on Work Function.”
Shiva Shahin, Palash Gangopadhyay, Robert A. Norwood, Appl. Phys. Lett., 2012, 101, 053109. "Ultrathin Organic Bulk Heterojunction Solar Cells: Plasmon Enhanced Performance Using Au Nanoparticles."
Yinhua Zhou, Jae Won Shim, Canek Fuentes-Hernandez, Asha Sharma, Keith A. Knauer, Anthony J. Giordano, Seth R. Marder, Bernard Kippelen, Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys., 2012, 14(34), 12014-12021. "Direct Correlation Between Work Function of Indium-tin-oxide Electrodes and Solar Cell Performance Influenced by Ultraviolet Irradiation and Air Exposure."
Dallas L. Matz, Matthew C. Schalnat, Jeanne E. Pemberton, J. Am. Chem. Soc., 2012, 134 (31), 12989–12997. “Reaction of Thin Films of Solid-State Benzene and Pyridine with Calcium.”
Hong Li, Laura K. Schirra, Jaewon Shim, Hyeunseok Cheun, Bernard Kippelen, Oliver L. A. Monti, and Jean-Luc Bredas, Chem. Mater., 2012, 24 (15), 3044–3055 . "Zinc Oxide as a Model Transparent Conducting Oxide: A Theoretical and Experimental Study of the Impact of Hydroxylation, Vacancies, Interstitials, and Extrinsic Doping on the Electronic Properties of the Polar ZnO (0002) Surface."
Ratcliff, E.L.; Garcia, A.; Cowan, S.R.; Meyer, J.; Steirer, K.X.; Paniagua, S.A.; Giordano, A.; Marder, S.; Armstrong, N.R.; Kahn, Antoine; Ginley, D.; Olson, D.C. Photovoltaic Specialists Conference (PVSC), 2012 38th IEEE ,003377-003379, 3-8 June 2012. "Understanding Energy Level Alignment in PCDTBT:PC70BM Solar Cells."
Ajaya K. Sigdel, Paul F. Ndione, John D. Perkins, Thomas Gennett, Maikel F. A. M. van Hest, Sean E. Shaheen, David S. Ginley, Joseph J. Berry, J. Appl. Phys., 2012, 111, 093718. "Radio-frequency superimposed direct current magnetron sputtered Ga:ZnO transparent conducting thin films."
Dallas L. Matz, Jeanne E. Pemberton, J. Phys. Chem. C, 2012, 116(21), 11548–11555. “Reaction Chemistry of Solid-State Pyridine Thin Films with Vapor Deposited Ag, Mg, and Al.”
Erin L. Ratcliff, Ajaya K. Sigdel, Mariola R. Macech, Kenneth Nebesny, Paul A. Lee, David S. Ginley, Neal R. Armstrong, Joseph J. Berry, Thin Solid Films, 2012, 520(17), 5652–5663. "Surface composition, work function, and electrochemical characteristics of gallium-doped zinc oxide."
Yinhua Zhou, Canek Fuentes-Hernandez, Jaewon Shim, Jens Meyer, Anthony J. Giordano, Hong Li, Paul Winget, Theodoros Papadopoulos, Hyeunseok Cheun, Jungbae Kim, Mathieu Fenoll, Amir Dindar, Wojciech Haske, Ehsan Najafabadi, Talha M. Khan, Hossein Sojoudi, Stephen Barlow, Samuel Graham, Jean-Luc Brédas, Seth R. Marder, Antoine Kahn, Bernard Kippelen, Science, 2012, 336(6079), 327-332. "A Universal Method to Produce Low–Work Function Electrodes for Organic Electronics."
Bradley A. MacLeod, Noah Elliott Horwitz, Erin L Ratcliff, Judith L. Jenkins, Neal R. Armstrong, Anthony J. Giordano, Peter J. Hotchkiss, Seth R. Marder, Charles T Campbell, David S Ginger, J. Phys. Chem. Lett., 2012, 3(9), 1202–1207. “Built-in Potential in Conjugated Polymer Diodes with Changing Anode Work Function: Interfacial States and Deviation from the Schottky-Mott Limit”
Hsiao-Chu Lin, Nathan W. Polaske, Luis E. Oquendo, Matthew Gliboff, Kristina M. Knesting, Dennis Nordlund, David S. Ginger, Erin L. Ratcliff, Brooke M. Beam, Neal R. Armstrong, Dominic V. McGrath, S. Scott Saavedra, J. Phys. Chem. Lett., 2012, 3, 1154–1158. "Electron-Transfer Processes in Zinc Phthalocyanine–Phosphonic Acid Monolayers on ITO: Characterization of Orientation and Charge-Transfer Kinetics by Waveguide Spectroelectrochemistry."
Sonam D. Sherpa, Sergio A. Paniagua, Galit Levitin, Seth R. Marder, M. D. Williams, Dennis W. Hess, J. Vac. Sci. Technol. 2012, B 30(3), 03D102. "Photoelectron spectroscopy studies of plasma-fluorinated epitaxial graphene."
Mingjian Yuan, Ken Okamoto, Hugo A. Bronstein, Christine K. Luscombe, ACS Macro Lett. (2012), 1, 392–395. "Constructing Regioregular Star Poly(3-hexylthiophene) via Externally Initiated Kumada Catalyst-Transfer Polycondensation."
Erin L. Ratcliff, Jens Meyer, K. Xerxes Steirer, Neal R. Armstrong, Dana Olson, Antoine Kahn, Organic Electronics, 2012, 13(5), 744-749. "Energy level alignment in PCDTBT:PC70BM solar cells: Solution processed NiOx for improved hole collection and efficiency."
Hyeunseok Cheun, Canek Fuentes-Hernandez, Jaewon Shim, Yunnan Fang, Ye Cai, Hong Li, Ajaya K. Sigdel, Jens Meyer, Julia Maibach, Amir Dindar, Yinhua Zhou, Joseph J. Berry, Jean-Luc Bredas, Antoine Kahn, Kenneth H. Sandhage, Bernard Kippelen, Advanced Functional Materials, 2012, 22(7), 1531–1538. “Oriented Growth of Al2O3:ZnO Nanolaminates for Use as Electron-Selective Electrodes in Inverted Polymer Solar Cells.”
Yongjin Kim, Hyungchul Kim, Samuel Graham, Aubrey Dyer, John R. Reynolds, Solar Energy Materials and Solar Cells, 2012, 100, 120–125. "Durable polyisobutylene edge sealants for organic electronics and electrochemical devices."
Rajiv Giridharagopal, Glennis Elizabeth Rayermann, Guozheng Shao, David T Moore, Obadiah George Reid, Andreas Frank Tillack, David J Masiello, David S Ginger, Nano Lett., 2012, 12 (2), 893–898. "Sub-Microsecond Time Resolution Atomic Force Microscopy for Probing Nanoscale Dynamics."
Scott R. Hammond, Jens Meyer, N. Edwin Widjonarko, Paul F. Ndione, Ajaya K. Sigdel, Andrés Garcia, Alexander Miedaner, Matthew T. Lloyd, Antoine Kahn, David S. Ginley, Joseph J. Berry, Dana C. Olson, J. Mater. Chem., 2012, 22, 3249-3254. "Low-temperature, solution-processed molybdenum oxide hole-collection layer for organic photovoltaics."
