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11 Oct 23:40

[ASAP] Bromination of the Small-Molecule Acceptor with Fixed Position for High-Performance Solar Cells

by Jianfei Qu†, Duning Li†, Huan Wang†‡, Jiadong Zhou§, Nan Zheng§, Hanjian Lai†, Tao Liu†, Zengqi Xie§, and Feng He*†

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Chemistry of Materials
DOI: 10.1021/acs.chemmater.9b02501
16 Aug 12:44

16.67% Rigid and 14.06% Flexible Organic Solar Cells Enabled by Ternary Heterojunction Strategy

by Tingting Yan, Wei Song, Jiaming Huang, Ruixiang Peng, Like Huang, Ziyi Ge
Advanced Materials 16.67% Rigid and 14.06% Flexible Organic Solar Cells Enabled by Ternary Heterojunction Strategy

High efficiencies of 16.67% (certified as 16.0%) for rigid and 14.06% for flexible organic solar cells (OSCs) are achieved by employing a PM6:Y6:PC71BM ternary system. This is a promising ternary heterojunction strategy for the development of highly efficient rigid and flexible OSCs.


Abstract

Ternary heterojunction strategies appear to be an efficient approach to improve the efficiency of organic solar cells (OSCs) through harvesting more sunlight. Ternary OSCs are fabricated by employing wide bandgap polymer donor (PM6), narrow bandgap nonfullerene acceptor (Y6), and PC71BM as the third component to tune the light absorption and morphologies of the blend films. A record power conversion efficiency (PCE) of 16.67% (certified as 16.0%) on rigid substrate is achieved in an optimized PM6:Y6:PC71BM blend ratio of 1:1:0.2. The introduction of PC71BM endows the blend with enhanced absorption in the range of 300–500 nm and optimises interpenetrating morphologies to promote photogenerated charge dissociation and extraction. More importantly, a PCE of 14.06% for flexible ITO‐free ternary OSCs is obtained based on this ternary heterojunction system, which is the highest PCE reported for flexible state‐of‐the‐art OSCs. A very promising ternary heterojunction strategy to develop highly efficient rigid and flexible OSCs is presented.