Carbon nanofibers (CNFs) are promising materials for the construction of energy devices, particularly organic solar cells. In the electrospinning process, polyacrylonitrile (PAN) has been utilized to generate nanofibers, which is the simplest and most popular method of creating carbon nanofibers (CNFs) followed by carbonization. The CNFs are coated on stainless steel (SS) plates and involve an electropolymerization process. The prepared Cu, CNF, CNF–Cu, PANI, PANI–Cu, CNF–PANI, and CNF–PANI–Cu electrode materials’ electrical conductivity was evaluated using cyclic voltammetry (CV) technique in 1 M H2SO4 electrolyte solution. Compared to others, the CNF–PANI–Cu electrode has higher conductivity that range is 3.0 mA. Moreover, the PANI, CNF–PANI, and CNF–PANI–Cu are coated on FTO plates and characterized for their optical properties (absorbance, transmittance, and emission) and electrical properties (CV and Impedance) for organic solar cell application. The functional groups, and morphology-average roughness of the electrode materials found by FT–IR, XRD, XPS, SEM, and TGA exhibit a strong correlation with each other. Finally, the electrode materials that have been characterized serve to support and act as the nature of the hole transport for organic solar cells.

최근 비풀러렌 전자수용체 소재 개발로 태양전지 및 광검출기 등 유기광다이오드 분야의 상당한 진보를 나타내고 있 다. 비풀러렌 소재의 자유로운 구조 개질 가능성을 바탕으로 흡광대역 자유 제어가 가능한 장점으로, 기존 태양전지 에서 구현이 힘들었던 고성능 반투명 태양전지, 실내 저조도 태양전지, 파장선택적 광검출기 등 다양한 응용을 가능 하게 한다. 본 리뷰에서는 유기태양전지를 비롯한 유기광다이오드의 광활성층에 활용되는 유기반도체 소재의 최신 연 구동향에 대해 다루고자 한다.

In this study, partially dry transfer is investigated to solve the problem of fully dry transfer. Partially dry transfer is a method in which multiple layers of graphene are dry-transferred over a wet-transferred graphene layer. At a wavelength of 550 nm, the transmittance of the partially dry-transferred graphene is seen to be about 3% higher for each layer than that of the fully dry-transferred graphene. Furthermore, the sheet resistance of the partially drytransferred graphene is relatively lower than that of the fully dry-transferred graphene, with the minimum sheet resistance being 179 Ω/sq. In addition, the fully dry-transferred graphene is easily damaged during the solution process, so that the performance of the organic photovoltaics (OPV) does not occur. In contrast, the best efficiency achievable for OPV using the partially dry-transferred graphene is 2.37% for 4 layers.

본 연구에서는, F4-ZnPc 광활성층 기반의 저분자 유기태양전지의 성능을 최적화 하기 위해서 다 양한 조건의 홀이동층과 전자이동층을 조합하는 연구를 진행하였다. BF-DPB 호스트 유기물에 C60F36 또 는 NDP9 도펀트를 도핑한 조합을 홀이동층으로 사용하였고, 전자이동층으로는 W2(hpp)4가 도핑된 C60 또는 순수 C60/Bphen 물질을 사용하였다. 다양한 홀/전자이동층의 조합은 유기태양전지의 단락전류밀도와 fill factor, 효율에 영향을 끼치는 것을 관찰할 수 있었다.

유기태양전지의 투명전극으로서 기존의 값비싸고 깨지기 쉬운 Indium Tin Oxide (ITO) 전극을 대체하고자, 전도성 고분자인 poly(3,4-ethylenedioxythiophene):poly(styrenesulfonate) (PEDOT:PSS)를 적용하였다. 솔벤트의 도핑 농도에 따른 PEDOT:PSS 박막의 전기 전도도와 표면 거칠기의 특성 변화를 관찰하고, 그 결과가 PEDOT:PSS를 투명전극으로 사용한 유기태양전지의 특성에 미치는 영향을 연구하였다. PEDOT:PSS의 솔벤트 농도가 증가함에 따라, 박막의 표면 거칠기가 증가하고, 이는 유기태양전지의 단락전류의 변화를 야기했다. 또한, 소자의 홀 이동층이 얇아짐에 따라 광활성층의 단파장영역의 광흡수가 증가하는 것을 관찰할 수 있었다.

Serious environmental problems have been caused by the greenhouse effect due to carbon dioxide(CO2) or nitrogen oxides(NOx) generated by the use of fossil fuels, including oil and liquefied natural gas. Many countries, including our own, the United States, those of the European Union and other developed countries around the world; have shown growing interest in clean energy, and have been concentrating on the development of new energy-saving materials and devices. Typical non-fossil-fuel sources include solar cells, wind power, tidal power, nuclear power, and fuel cells. In particular, organic solar cells(OSCs) have relatively low power-conversion efficiency(PCE) in comparison with inorganic(silicon) based solar cells, compound semiconductor solar cells and the CIGS [Cu(In1-xGax)Se2] thin film solar cells. Recently, organic cell efficiencies greater than 10 % have been obtained by means of the development of new organic semiconducting materials, which feature improvements in crystalline properties, as well as in the quantum-dot nano-structure of the active layers. In this paper, a brief overview of solar cells in general is presented. In particular, the current development status of the next-generation OSCs including their operation principle, device-manufacturing processes, and improvements in the PCE are described.