• 한국진공학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국진공학회 2014년도 제46회 동계 정기학술대회 초록집
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• pp.481.2-481.2
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• 2014

Bulk hetero junction (BHJ) polymer solar cell (PSCs) is one of the most promising fields as alternative energy source. Especially, the development of new p-type conjugated polymer is one of the main issues to get core technology. In this study, we investigated the chemical doping effects of incorporating 3,6-carbazole units into conjugated polymers based on 2,7-carbazole. We assessed the structural effects of this chemical doping by measuring the photovoltaic device performance of the copolymers with and without annealing. Note that the use of nanostructures in the bulk heterojunction layer could be a major obstacle to commercialization because nano-morphologies are frequently unstable at high temperatures. Therefore, the development of thermally stable polymer:fullerene blends with optimized PCEs is an important goal in this area of research. We studied the morphologies of the copolymers incorporating 3,6-carbazole units resulting from thermal annealing to investigate the effects of the difference between the T g values of the 2,7-carbazole unit and the 3,6-carbazole unit.

• 한국고분자학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국고분자학회 2006년도 IUPAC International Symposium on Advanced Polymers for Emerging Technologies
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• pp.274-274
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• 2006

Recently, conjugated polymer solar cells have attracted a great deal of attention. In this work, we applied the various scanning probe techniques to characterize composite materials typically used to fabricate polymer solar cells: poly-3(hexylthiophene) (P3HT) and [6,6]-phenyl-C61-butyric acid methyl ester (PCBM) and P3HT/PCBM/Au nanoparticle (NP) samples. The latter is studied due to the idea of using the gold NP surface plasmon to enhance the optical absorption of the composite films. AFM is used to characterize the film morphology whereas conducting AFM is used to study the charge transport properties at the nanoscale. We found that there is a direct correlation between the nanoscale charge transport measurements and the device efficiencies.

• 한국재료학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국재료학회 2012년도 춘계학술발표대회
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• pp.59.2-59.2
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• 2012

Polymer solar cells utilize bulk heterojunction (BHJ) type photo-active layer in which the electron donating polymer and electron accepting $C_{60}$ derivatives are blended. We found there is significant charge recombination at the interface between the BHJ active layer and electrode. The charge recombination at the interface was effectively reduced by inserting wide band gap inorganic interfacial layer, which resulted in efficiency and stability enhancement of BHJ polymer solar cell.

• Bulletin of the Korean Chemical Society
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• 제33권12호
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• pp.4093-4097
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• 2012

We introduced a new UV-cured resin polymer gel as an electrolyte for dye-sensitized solar cells (DSSCs) that is cured with UV irradiation to form a thin film of UV-cured resin polymer gel in the cells. The gel film was characterized and its potential for use as an electrolyte in DSSCs was investigated. This new UV-cured resin polymer gel was successfully applied as a gel polymer electrolyte in DSSCs overcoming the problems associated with the liquid electrolytes in typical DSSCs. The effect of ${\gamma}$-butylrolactone (GBL) on the long-term stability and photovoltaic performance in DSSCs using this UV-cured resin polymer gel electrolyte was also investigated. The results of the energy conversion efficiency, ionic conductivity and Raman spectra of the UV-cured resin polymer gel electrolyte with the addition of 6 wt % GBL to the UV-cured resin polymer electrolyte showed good long-term stability and photovoltaic performance for the DSSCs with the UV-cured polymer gel electrolyte.

• 한국진공학회지
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• 제16권3호
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• pp.167-171
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• 2007

세계적으로 석유자원의 고갈로 대체 에너지 중에서도 태양전지는 가장 주목받는 기술 중에 하나이며, 크게 무기물 태양전지와 유기태양전지로 구분된다. 그 중에서 유기태양전지의 변환효율은 무기물 태양전지에 상당히 미치지 못하지만, 제작공정의 비용이 낮고, 투명하고 다양한 색을 낼 수 있으며, 유연성을 띠는 장점으로 인하여 무기물 태양전지가 사용될 수 없는 시장을 중심으로 저비용 제품으로 사용될 가능성이 높아지고 있다. 현재 유기태양전지의 효율, 수명, 그리고, 안정성이 태양전지의 보급화에 중요한 이슈이며, 다양한 연구가 진행되고 있다. 본 글은 유기태양전지의 기술적 원리, 현재 개발 동향 및 이슈, 그리고 발전 방향에 대하여 정리하였다.

• Bulletin of the Korean Chemical Society
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• 제34권10호
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• pp.2995-3004
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• 2013

The structural, electronic, and optical properties of poly(3-hexylthiophene) (P3HT) have been comprehensively studied by density functional theory (DFT) to rationalize the experimentally observed properties. Rather, we employed periodic boundary conditions (PBC) method to simulate the polymer block, and calculated effective charge mass from the band structure calculation for describing charge transport properties. The simulated results of P3HT are consistent with the experimental results in band gaps, absorption spectra, and effective charge mass. Based on the same calculated methods as P3HT, a series of polymers have been designed on the basis of the two types of building blocks, furofurans and furofurans substituted with cyano (CN) groups, to investigate suitable polymers toward polymer solar cell (PSC) materials. The calculated results reveal that the polymers substituted with CN groups have good structural stability, low-lying FMO energy levels, wide absorption spectra, and smaller effective masses, which are due to their good rigidity and conjugation in comparison with P3HT. Besides, the insertion of CN groups improves the performance of PSC. Synthetically, the designed polymers PFF1 and PFF2 are the champion candidates toward PSC relative to P3HT.

• 폴리머
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• 제37권4호
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• pp.470-477
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• 2013

가공이 쉬우면서도 성능이 우수한 염료 감응 태양 전지(DSSC)용 상대 전극을 제조하기 위하여 다중벽 탄소 나노튜브(MWCNT) 기반의 고충전 나노복합 페이스트를 제조하고, MWCNT의 분산 제어가 미치는 영향에 대하여 조사하여 보았다. MWCNT의 분산성을 향상시키기 위하여 폴리스티렌 기반의 기능성 블록 공중합체를 리빙 라디칼 중합법으로 합성하여 MWCNT의 표면 개질제로 사용하였으며, 적절한 용매 조건의 선택을 통하여 고충전 나노복합 페이스트의 가공성이 향상되는 것을 확인할 수 있었다. MWCNT의 분산 제어를 통해 이를 상대 전극으로 도입한 DSSC의 광전 변환 효율이 향상됨을 확인할 수 있었으며, 이는 볼밀법을 이용한 MWCNT의 물리적 분산을 통해서도 검증할 수 있었다. 미량의 platinum(Pt) 나노입자와 복합화시킬 경우, 표준 Pt 상대 전극보다도 더 우수한 성능을 가지는 MWCNT 기반 상대 전극을 제조할 수 있음을 확인하였다.

• 한국고분자학회지:고분자과학과기술
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• 제23권4호
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• pp.386-395
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• 2012

• Bulletin of the Korean Chemical Society
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• 제32권2호
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• pp.605-608
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• 2011

Hybrid composite membranes were prepared by coating poly(ethylene oxide) and $SiO_2$ particles onto the porous polypropylene nonwoven matrix. Gel polymer electrolytes prepared by soaking the hybrid composite membranes in an organic electrolyte solution exhibited ionic conductivities higher than $1.1{\times}10^{-3}Scm^{-1}$ at room temperature. Dyesensitized solar cell (DSSC) employing the hybrid composite membrane with PEO and 10 wt % $SiO_2$ exhibited an open circuit voltage of 0.77 V and a short circuit current of 10.78 $mAcm^{-2}$ at an incident light intensity of 100 $mWcm^{-2}$, yielding a conversion efficiency of 5.2%. DSSC employing the hybrid composite membrane showed more stable photovoltaic performance than that of the DSSC assembled with liquid electrolyte.

• 조명전기설비학회논문지
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• 제26권11호
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• pp.104-108
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• 2012

Flexible organic thin film solar cell device with Bulk Hetero-Junction (BHJ) structure was fabricated with blended conjugated polymer of PCDTBT : $PC_{71}BM$ as active layer. Surface of ITO anode for the organic solar cell device was treated with ozone. The organic solar cell device with bare ITO showed short circuit current density ($J_{sc}$) of $8.2mA/cm^2$, open-circuit voltage ($V_{oc}$) of 0.73V, fill factor (FF) of 0.36, and power conversion efficiency (PCE) of 2.16%, respectively. The organic solar cell device with ozone treated ITO anode revealed distinctively improved performance parameters:$J_{sc}$ of $9.8mA/cm^2$, $V_{oc}$ of 0.82V, FF of 0.43, PCE(${\eta}$) of 3.42%.