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Crystalline Organization of a Methanofullerene as Used for Plastic Solar‐Cell Applications
Author(s) -
Yang X.,
van Duren J. K. J.,
Rispens M. T.,
Hummelen J. C.,
Janssen R. A. J.,
Michels M. A. J.,
Loos J.
Publication year - 2004
Publication title -
advanced materials
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 10.707
H-Index - 527
eISSN - 1521-4095
pISSN - 0935-9648
DOI - 10.1002/adma.200306372
Subject(s) - materials science , evaporation , thin film , solar cell , chemical engineering , nanocrystal , solvent , deposition (geology) , nanotechnology , optoelectronics , organic chemistry , paleontology , chemistry , physics , sediment , biology , engineering , thermodynamics
Crystalline organization of a methanofullerene , [6,6]‐phenyl C 61 butyric acid methyl ester (PCBM), as achieved in various thin‐film deposition techniques, is reported. Mechanically stable, and thus self‐supporting, thin films obtained via fast solvent evaporation techniques are found to be composed of densely and homogeneously distributed PCBM nanocrystals with various crystallographic orientations, as shown schematically in the Figure.