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Thin-film photovoltaic cells based on vanadyl phthalocyanine and fullerene

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Prototypes of organic photovoltaic cells containing a planar phthalocyanine-fullerene hetero-junction are fabricated. The main parameters of photoconversion in such structures are measured in relation to deposition conditions of a photoactive molecular layer (vanadyl phthalocyanine) and to the material of a subcathode interface layer. It is shown that morphological changes in the vanadyl phthalocyanine layer due to a decrease in the deposition rate in vacuum improve the efficiency of the cells roughly by an order of magnitude.

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  1. Institute for Physics of Microstructures, Russian Academy of Sciences, ul. Akademicheskaya 7, Nizhni Novgorod oblast, 607680, Russia

    G. L. Pakhomov, V. V. Travkin & A. Yu. Luk’yanov

  2. Lviv Polytechnic National University, ul. S. Bandery 12, Lviv, 79013, Ukraine

    P. I. Stakhira & N. V. Kostiv

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Original Russian Text © G.L. Pakhomov, V.V. Travkin, A.Yu. Luk’yanov, P.I. Stakhira, N.V. Kostiv, 2013, published in Zhurnal Tekhnicheskoi Fiziki, 2013, Vol. 83, No. 2, pp. 74–81.

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Pakhomov, G.L., Travkin, V.V., Luk’yanov, A.Y. et al. Thin-film photovoltaic cells based on vanadyl phthalocyanine and fullerene. Tech. Phys. 58, 223–230 (2013). https://doi.org/10.1134/S1063784213020175

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