Issue 28, 2018

A pseudo-two-dimensional conjugated polysquaraine: an efficient p-type polymer semiconductor for organic photovoltaics and perovskite solar cells

Abstract

In this paper, an efficient p-type polymer semiconductor (PASQ-IDT) is first developed by integrating a two-dimensional (2D) structure concept into the design of squaraine-based π-conjugated polymers, and it shows multiple applications in both bulk-heterojunction polymer solar cells (BHJ-PSCs) and perovskite solar cells (PVSCs) with high performance. As the polymer-donor blended with a fullerene acceptor, PASQ-IDT can endow the derived additive-free single-junction PSCs and semi-transparent PSCs with impressive efficiencies of 6.35% and 4.03%, respectively, both of which are the highest values reported for polysquaraines. More encouragingly, PASQ-IDT not only exhibits good hole extraction/transport ability, but also shows very good surface wettability to the perovskite precursor solution to enable the growth of perovskites with high film quality, making it suitable as an efficient hole transporting material (HTM) for inverted PVSCs. Thus, a very promising efficiency of 18.29% with negligible hysteresis and good device stability can be delivered by PASQ-IDT-based inverted PVSCs in the absence of dopants, outperforming the PEDOT:PSS-based control devices (16.14%) and most dopant-free HTMs reported so far.

Graphical abstract: A pseudo-two-dimensional conjugated polysquaraine: an efficient p-type polymer semiconductor for organic photovoltaics and perovskite solar cells

Supplementary files

Article information

Article type
Paper
Submitted
29 May 2018
Accepted
15 Jun 2018
First published
21 Jun 2018

J. Mater. Chem. A, 2018,6, 13644-13651

A pseudo-two-dimensional conjugated polysquaraine: an efficient p-type polymer semiconductor for organic photovoltaics and perovskite solar cells

Q. Xiao, F. Wu, M. Han, Z. Li, L. Zhu and Z. Li, J. Mater. Chem. A, 2018, 6, 13644 DOI: 10.1039/C8TA05026K

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