Goal 4

Professor Bernard Kippelen leads CISSEM’s research Goal 4 assisted by co-lead David Ginley, Ph.D. Research in Goal 4 will: “Apply our understanding of interfaces to organic photovoltaic solar cell platforms.” For Years 4 and 5, one all-encompassing scientific question is being pursued by CISSEM relevant to Goal 4:

  • How do our use-inspired discoveries of basic phenomena translate to changes in performance of scalable solar cell materials and platforms?

Recent CISSEM-funded publications featuring Goal 4 research:

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."

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10.1002/aenm.201200742
November 26, 2012

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.”

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10.1039/C2EE23294D
October 9, 2012

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."

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10.1016/j.solmat.2012.08.004
August 28, 2012

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."

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10.1002/adma.201200963
August 8, 2012

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 BrĂ©das, 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."

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10.1126/science.1218829
April 19, 2012

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."

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10.1016/j.orgel.2012.01.022
February 7, 2012

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