P3HT:PCBM, Best Seller in Polymer Photovoltaic Research

Authors :: Guillaume Wantz
Minh Trung Dang
Lionel Hirsch
Laboratoire de l'intégration, du matériau au système (IMS)
Université Sciences et Technologies - Bordeaux 1-Institut Polytechnique de Bordeaux-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)
Source :: Advanced Materials, Advanced Materials, Wiley-VCH Verlag, 2011, 23 (31), pp.3597-3602. ⟨10.1002/adma.201100792⟩
Publication Year :: 2011
Publisher :: Wiley, 2011.
Abstract: International audience; In the field of polymer-based photovoltaic cells, poly(3-hexylthiophene) (P3HT) and 1-(3-methoxycarbonyl)propyl-1-phenyl[6,6]C61 (PCBM) are, to date, the most-studied active materials around the world for the bulk-heterojunction structure. Various power-conversion efficiencies are reported up to approximately 5%. This Research News article is focused on a survey of the tremendous literature published between 2002 and 2010 that exhibits solar cells based on blends of P3HT and PCBM.