• Proceedings of the Korean Vacuum Society Conference
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• 2010.08a
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• pp.311-312
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• 2010

The fabricated photovoltaic cells based on PIN heterojunctions, in this study, have a structure of ITO/poly(3, 4-ethylenedioxythiophene)-poly(styrenesulfonate)(PEDOT:PSS)/donor/donor:C60(10nm)/C60(35nm)/2, 9-dimethyl-4, 7-diphenyl-1, 10-phenanthroline(8nm)/Al(100nm). The thicknesses of an active layer(donor:C60), an electron transport layer(C60), and hole/exciton blocking layer(BCP) were fixed in the organic photovoltaic cells. We investigated the performance characteristics of the PIN organic photovoltaic cells with copper phthalocyanine(CuPc), tetracene and pentacene as a hole transport layer. Discussion on the photovoltaic cells with CuPc, tetracene and pentacene as a hole transport layer is focussed on the dependency of the power conversion efficiency on the deposition rate and thickness of hole transport layer. The device performance characteristics are elucidated from open-circuit-voltage(Voc), short-circuit-current(Jsc), fill factor(FF), and power conversion efficiency($\eta$). As the deposition rate of donor is reduced, the power conversion efficiency is enhanced by increased short-circuit-current(Jsc). The CuPc-based PIN photovoltaic cell has the limited dependency of power conversion efficiency on the thickness of hole transport layer because of relatively short exciton diffusion length. The photovoltaic cell using tetracene as a hole transport layer, which has relatively long diffusion length, has low efficiency. The maximum power conversion efficiencies of CuPc, tetracene, and pentacene-based photovoltaic cells with optimized deposition rate and thickness of hole transport layer have been achieved to 1.63%, 1.33% and 2.15%, respectively. The photovoltaic cell using pentacene as a hole transport layer showed the highest efficiency because of dramatically enhanced Jsc due to long diffusion length and strong thickness dependence.

• Journal of the Korean Chemical Society
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• v.39 no.10
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• pp.763-768
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• 1995

The theory previously proposed to simulate hole depth in the weak burn intensity limit is extended to examine the hole depth at arbitrary burn intensity using 3-level system model. The hole spectrum simulated using constant fluence gives different hole depth for strong burn intensity while it gives same hole depth for weak burn intensity region. The calculated hole growth curves are compared with published experimental data for oxazine720 in glycerol and tetracene in MTHF glass.

• Electrical & Electronic Materials
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• v.9 no.2
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• pp.204-207
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• 1996

태양의 광에너지를 전기에너지로 변환하는 태양전지의 재료는 현재 무기반도체가 주를 이루고 있지만 최근 유기반도체가 재료자체 물성의 연구진전과 더불어 태양전지로서 개발가능성이 논하여 지고 있다. 한편 유기반도체의 장점은 1)박막으로 제작이 용이하고 2)대량생산에 의한 저가제조가 가능하며 3)경량화를 할 수 있고 4)그 기능의 다양성을 줄 수 있다는 것이다. 또한 단점은 캐리어 트랩 밀도가 커서 반송자(carrier)의 수명과 이동도가 작고 확산길이도 짧기 때문에 광수집 효율이 매우 낮아 광전변환효율이 낮다는 것이다. 또한 일반적으로 유기반도체는 저항율이 커서 오옴성 접촉이 어렵고 입사광 강도의 증대에 따라 변환효율이 감소하는것도 큰 문제로 되어있다. 따라서 본고에서는 지금까지 유기반도체를 사용한 태양전지의 원리 및 제조기술을 간단히 살펴보고 특성과 연구동향등을 분석하여 앞으로 유기반도체 태양전지의 나아가야할 방향을 찾아보고자 한다.