Frontiers of Optoelectronics, Volume. 10, Issue 2, 117(2017)

Fabricate organic thermoelectric modules use modified PCBM and PEDOT:PSS materials

Feng GAO, Yuchun LIU, Yan XIONG, Ping WU, Bin HU, and Ling XU*
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  • Wuhan National Laboratory for Optoelectronics, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan 430074, China
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    In this paper, we fabricated an organic thermoelectric (TE) device with modified [6,6]-phenyl-C61- butyric acid methyl ester (PCBM) and poly(3,4-ethylenedioxythiophene) polystyrene sulfonate (PEDOT:PSS); the device showed good stability in air condition. For n-leg, PCBM were doped with acridine orange base (3,6-bis (dimethylamino)acridine) (AOB) and 1,3-dimethyl-2,3- dihydro-1H-benzoimidazole (N-DMBI). Co-doped PCBM utilizes synergistic effects of AOB and N-DMBI, resulting in excellent electrical conductivity and Seebeck coefficient values reaching 2 S/cm and -500 μV/K, respectively, at room temperature with dopant molar ratio of 0.11. P-type leg used modified PEDOT:PSS. Based on modified PCBM and PEDOT:PSS materials, we fabricated a TE module device with 48 p-type and n-type thermocouple and tested their output voltage, short current, and power. Output voltage measured ~0.82 V, and generated power reached almost 945 μW with 75 K temperature gradient at 453 K hot-side temperature. These promising results showed potential of modified PEDOT and PCBM as TE materials for application in device optimization.

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    Feng GAO, Yuchun LIU, Yan XIONG, Ping WU, Bin HU, Ling XU. Fabricate organic thermoelectric modules use modified PCBM and PEDOT:PSS materials[J]. Frontiers of Optoelectronics, 2017, 10(2): 117

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    Paper Information

    Category: RESEARCH ARTICLE

    Received: Mar. 22, 2017

    Accepted: May. 4, 2017

    Published Online: Jan. 17, 2018

    The Author Email: XU Ling (xuling@mail.hust.edu.cn)

    DOI:10.1007/s12200-017-0712-x

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