H. Yüksel Güney

Post-production annealing which improves the power conversion efficiency of the P3HT:PCBM-based organic cells are very important process. Lots of various annealing temperatures and annealing times have been used for annealing process in previous studies but not any criteria was taken as a basis for determination of annealing temperature. In this study annealing temperature was optimized for annealing time of 3 minutes. ITO-PEDOT:PSS/P3HT:PCBM/Al was fabricated at the weight ratio of 12:8 for P3HT:PCBM. Organic solar cells were annealed at different annealing temperatures in the range of 80°C - 160 °C. The variation of external quantum efficiency (EQE) with annealing temperature was obtained. The higher EQE was obtained at 120C. Thus, 120C was determined as optimum annealing temperature. The aging experiments were performed under constant humidity, illumination and atmospheric conditions. It has been observed that the post- product annealed at 120C solar cells have more longer life time and more stable compared with the non-annealed cell and other annealed solar cells.

In this study, the effect of measurement temperature and uniaxial drawing on the real (dielectric constant, ε′) and imaginary (loss index, ε″) parts of the complex dielectric constant of α‐crystalline phase poly(vinylidene fluoride) (PVDF) was investigated. The samples having different draw ratios (λ) were obtained by drawing the PVDF film at constant speed and temperature. The dielectric measurements were performed in the frequency range of 100 Hz–1 MHz and in the temperature range of 80–400 K. Although ε′ and ε″ were not affected by the orientation process during the β‐relaxation transition, it was observed that there were systematical variations for the α‐relaxation transition. ε′ and ε″ showed different behaviors depending on the draw ratio at different temperatures. Especially, ε″ was more affected by the orientation process at 380 K. © 2009 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. J Appl Polym Sci, 2009