Issue 35, 2021

Planar heterojunctions for reduced non-radiative open-circuit voltage loss and enhanced stability of organic solar cells

Abstract

Compared to bulk heterojunctions (BHJs) in organic solar cells (OSCs), planar heterojunctions (PHJs) avoid complicated morphology control entirely and morphology disorder caused by physical blending, and show huge potentials to realize less traps and better stability for OSCs. In this study, solution-processed fused-ring electron acceptors, replacing traditional fullerene acceptors such as C60 and C70, with several vacuum-deposited donors were employed to fabricate PHJ-OSCs. PHJ-OSCs exhibit a much lower trap density of 1015 cm−3 magnitude than that of BHJ counterpart devices (1016 cm−3 magnitude). Furthermore, PHJ-OSCs achieved the highest electroluminescence efficiency of 5.8 × 10−3 and the smallest non-radiative open-circuit voltage loss of 0.13 V in the field of OSCs to date. Meanwhile, PHJ-OSCs presented much better stability under illumination than BHJ devices. Moreover, this simple PHJ-OSC fabrication method can be further extended to different acceptor systems to build efficient and stable OSCs.

Graphical abstract: Planar heterojunctions for reduced non-radiative open-circuit voltage loss and enhanced stability of organic solar cells

Supplementary files

Article information

Article type
Paper
Submitted
02 tra 2021
Accepted
30 tra 2021
First published
30 tra 2021

J. Mater. Chem. C, 2021,9, 11715-11721

Planar heterojunctions for reduced non-radiative open-circuit voltage loss and enhanced stability of organic solar cells

Y. Li and Y. Lin, J. Mater. Chem. C, 2021, 9, 11715 DOI: 10.1039/D1TC01536B

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