Highly Efficient Ternary‐Blend Polymer Solar Cells Enabled by a Nonfullerene Acceptor and Two Polymer Donors with a Broad Composition Tolerance. Issue 46 (16th October 2017)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Xu, Xiaopeng; Bi, Zhaozhao; Ma, Wei; Wang, Zishuai; Choy, Wallace C. H.; Wu, Wenlin; Zhang, Guangjun; Li, Ying; Peng, Qiang
• Is Part Of: Advanced materials. Volume 29:Issue 46(2017)
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• Publication Date: 2017-10-16
• Subjects: broad composition tolerance -- charge transfer -- energy transfer -- nonfullerene acceptors -- ternary blend polymer solar cells; Materials -- Periodicals; Chemical vapor deposition -- Periodicals; 620.11
• DOI: 10.1002/adma.201704271
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 0935-9648

Abstract

Abstract: In this work, highly efficient ternary‐blend organic solar cells (TB‐OSCs) are reported based on a low‐bandgap copolymer of PTB7‐Th, a medium‐bandgap copolymer of PBDB‐T, and a wide‐bandgap small molecule of SFBRCN. The ternary‐blend layer exhibits a good complementary absorption in the range of 300–800 nm, in which PTB7‐Th and PBDB‐T have excellent miscibility with each other and a desirable phase separation with SFBRCN. In such devices, there exist multiple energy transfer pathways from PBDB‐T to PTB7‐Th, and from SFBRCN to the above two polymer donors. The hole‐back transfer from PTB7‐Th to PBDB‐T and multiple electron transfers between the acceptor and the donor materials are also observed for elevating the whole device performance. After systematically optimizing the weight ratio of PBDB‐T:PTB7‐Th:SFBRCN, a champion power conversion efficiency (PCE) of 12.27% is finally achieved with an open‐circuit voltage ( V oc ) of 0.93 V, a short‐circuit current density ( J sc ) of 17.86 mA cm −2, and a fill factor of 73.9%, which is the highest value for the ternary OSCs reported so far. Importantly, the TB‐OSCs exhibit a broad composition tolerance with a high PCE over 10% throughout the whole blend ratios. Abstract : Highly efficient ternary‐blend nonfullerene organic solar cells based on two copolymer donors and one electron acceptor are fabricated and evaluated. The multiple energy and charge‐transfer pathways in this ternary system enable the power conversion efficiency to reach 12.27%, which is a new record for ternary‐blend organic solar cells at present. These devices also exhibit a broad composition tolerance.