공업화학 (Applied Chemistry for Engineering)

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  • Pages.447-454
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  • 2014
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  • 1225-0112(pISSN)
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  • 2288-4505(eISSN)
한국공업화학회 (The Korean Society of Industrial and Engineering Chemistry)
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유기태양전지의 효율 및 수명 향상을 위한 기능성 계면 소재 연구

Interface Functional Materials for Improving the Performance and Stability of Organic Solar Cell

  • Hong, Kihyon (Korea Institute of Materials and Science, Surface Technology Division) ;
  • Park, Sun-Young (Photocatalytic Synthesis Group, MESA+ Institute for Nanotechnology, Faculty of Science and Technology, University of Twente) ;
  • Lim, Dong Chan (Korea Institute of Materials and Science, Surface Technology Division)
  • 투고 : 2014.09.17
  • 발행 : 2014.10.10
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유기태양전지는 제조비용이 저렴하고 플렉서블 전자소자에 적용이 가능하다는 장점들로 인해 최근 많은 연구가 진행되고 있다. 일반적인 정구조의 태양전지(conventional structured solar cell)의 경우 10%대의 향상된 발전 효율을 보이고 있으나, 여전히 기타 Si 및 CIGS 등과 같은 태양전지에 비해 낮은 효율과 짧은 수명은 상용화의 걸림돌로 작용하고 있다. 일반적으로 유기태양전지의 짧은 수명은 유기물의 광산화뿐만 아니라 수분 및 산소에 의한 음극, 양극 소재의 부식으로 인한 소재/소자 열화 문제로 설명되어지고 있다. 한편 이와 같은 문제점을 해결하기 위해 새로운 소자 구조(역구조 태양 전지; Inverted structured solar cell)가 제안되었으며 전자 수송층 및 기능성 계면 소재 연구를 통한 발전 효율 및 수명 향상에 관한 연구가 꾸준히 되고 있다. 그 결과 최근 2D/3D 산화 아연(ZnO) 소재를 역구조 태양전지의 전자 수송층으로 적용하고 건,습식 표면 후처리를 통해 약 9% 수준의 발전효율을 달성하였다. 본 총설에서는 ZnO를 기반으로 하는 전자 수송층 소재의 연구 동향 및 역구조 태양전지의 효율 향상 기술에 관한 최신 연구 동향을 소개하고자 한다.

Organic solar cells (OSCs) have intensively studied in recent years due to their advantages such as cost effectiveness and possibility of applications in flexible devices. In spite of the high power conversion efficiency (PCE) of 10 %, the OSCs still have a draw back of their low environmental stability due to the oxidization of aluminum cathode and etching of transparent conducting oxide as electrode. To solve these problems, the inverted structured OSCs (I-OSCs) having greatest potential for achieving an improvement of device performances are suggested. Therefore, there are a lot of studies to develope of interface layer based on organic/inorganic materials for the electron transport layer (ETL) and passivation layer, significant advancements in I-OSCs have driven the development of interface functional materials including electron transport layer. Recent efforts to employing 2D/3D zinc oxide (ZnO) based ETL into I-OSCs have produced OSCs with a power conversion efficiency level that matches the efficiency of ~9 %. In this review, the technical issues and recent progress of ZnO based ETL in I-OSCs to enhancement of device efficiency and stability in terms of materials, process and characterization have summarized.

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