Spatially-Resolved In-Situ Structural Study of Organic Electronic Devices with Nanoscale Resolution: The Plasmonic Photovoltaic Case Study

摘要

A major advance in organic electronics technology will be the development of new tools to monitor the internal structure of device components with nanometer resolution. Indeed, diagnostic tools at the nanoscale enable the establishment of structure-property relations that link length scales from local nano/hetero structures and interfaces to large scale devices. Such capability is particularly important in the case of bulk heterojunction (BHJ) organic photovoltaics (OPV), considering that the photovoltaic performance strongly depends on the nanoscale phase separation during the donor/acceptor heterojunction formation as well as the nanomorphology of the interfaces formed between the active and charge collection layers.