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Flexible Organic Photovoltaic Cells with In-situ Non-thermal Photoreduction of Spin Coated Graphene Oxide Electrodes

Emmanuel Kymakis·Kyriaki Savva·Minas M. Stylianakis·Costas Fotakis·Emmanuel Stratakis
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This article is withdrawn since it is published in a journal We report on the first reduction methodology, compatible with flexible, temperature sensitive substrates, for the production of reduced spin coated graphene oxide (GO) electrodes. It is based on the use of a laser beam for the in-situ, non-thermal, reduction of spin coated GO films on flexible substrates over a large area. The photoreduction process is one-step, facile and is rapidly carried out at room temperature in air without affecting the integrity of the graphene lattice as well as the flexibility of the underlying substrate. Conductive graphene films with a sheet resistance of as low as 700 Ω/sq can be obtained, much higher than flexible layers reduced by chemical means. As a proof of concept of our technique, the laser-reduced GO (LrGO) films were utilized as the transparent electrode in flexible, bulk heterojunction, organic photovoltaic (OPV) devices, replacing the traditional ITO. The devices displayed a power-conversion efficiency of 1.1 %, which is the highest reported so far for OPV device incorporating reduced GO as the transparent electrode. The in-situ non-thermal photoreduction of spin-coated GO films creates a new way to produce flexible functional graphene electrodes for a variety of electronic applications in a process that carries substantial promise for potential industrial implementation.

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Emmanuel Kymakis, Kyriaki Savva, Minas M. Stylianakis, Costas Fotakis, Emmanuel Stratakis. 2012-12-13. Flexible Organic Photovoltaic Cells with In-situ Non-thermal Photoreduction of Spin Coated Graphene Oxide Electrodes. https://arxiv.org/abs/1208.0988

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