Developing stable, readily-synthesized, and solutionprocessable transparent conducting polymers for interfacial modifying layers in organic photovoltaic (OPV) devices has become of great importance. Here, the radical polymer, poly(2,2,6,6-tetramethylpiperidinyloxy methacrylate (PTMA), is shown to not affect the absorption of the well-studied poly(3-hexylthiophene) (P3HT) and [6,6]-phenyl-C 61 -butyric acid methyl ester (PCBM) active layer when incorporated into inverted OPV devices, as it is highly transparent in the visible spectrum due to the non-conjugated nature of the PTMA backbone. The inclusion of this radical polymer as an anode-modifying layer enhanced the open-circuit voltage and short-circuit current density values over devices that did not contain an anodic modifier.Importantly, devices fabricated with the PTMA interlayer had performance metrics that were time-independent over the entire course of multiples days of testing after exposing the OPV devices to ambient conditions. Furthermore, these high performance values were independent of the metal used as the top electrode contact in the inverted OPV devices.
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