Thèse soutenue

Elaboration des matériaux hybrides, organiques/ oxydes métalliques pour le photovoltaique organique

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Auteur / Autrice : Hussein Awada
Direction : Laurent Billon
Type : Thèse de doctorat
Discipline(s) : Chimie - physique
Date : Soutenance le 10/10/2014
Etablissement(s) : Pau
Ecole(s) doctorale(s) : École doctorale sciences exactes et leurs applications (Pau, Pyrénées Atlantiques ; 1995-)

Résumé

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The performance and life time of organic solar cells are critically dependent on the properties of active layer materials and device interfaces. In this manuscript, we developed new organic-inorganic hybrid materials to create intimate contact between donor and acceptor phases and facilitate the interfacial electronic charge transfer through the device. First, the synthesis of versatile triethoxysilane-terminated poly(3-hexylthiophene) P3HT for direct anchoring (grafting-onto) in one step procedure to various metallic oxides was reported. Electro-optical analysis showed an efficient charge transfer from the polymer to nanoparticles; suggesting that these materials are suitable candidates for photovoltaic application. In the second part, we demonstrate for the first time the elaboration of low band gap polymer brushes on metallic oxide surfaces via surface initiated step growth polymerization (grafting-through). In both cases, a higher grafting density, better packing of polymer chains and enhanced optical properties were observed due to the grafting methodology and polymer characteristics. Finally, P3HT brushes were elaborated on indium tin oxide surface (ITO) as hole transporting layer of organic solar cells. Photovoltaic performances showed that P3HT self-assembled monolayer (SAMs) could be promising alternatives to PEDOT:PSS.