| Literature DB >> 35315238 |
Guilong Cai1, Zeng Chen2, Xinxin Xia1, Yuhao Li1, Jiayu Wang3, Heng Liu1, PingPing Sun4, Chao Li5, Ruijie Ma5, Yaoqiang Zhou6, Weijie Chi7, Jianqi Zhang8, Haiming Zhu2, Jianbin Xu6, He Yan5, Xiaowei Zhan3, Xinhui Lu1.
Abstract
The tuning of vertical morphology is critical and challenging for organic solar cells (OSCs). In this work, a high open-circuit voltage (VOC ) binary D18-Cl/L8-BO system is attained while maintaining the high short-circuit current (JSC ) and fill factor (FF) by employing 1,4-diiodobenzene (DIB), a volatile solid additive. It is suggested that DIB can act as a linker between donor or/and acceptor molecules, which significantly modifies the active layer morphology. The overall crystalline packing of the donor and acceptor is enhanced, and the vertical domain sizes of phase separation are significantly decreased. All these morphological changes contribute to exciton dissociation, charge transport, and collection. Therefore, the best-performing device exhibits an efficiency of 18.7% with a VOC of 0.922 V, a JSC of 26.6 mA cm-2 , and an FF of 75.6%. As far as it is known, the VOC achieved here is by far the highest among the reported OSCs with efficiencies over 17%. This work demonstrates the high competence of solid additives with two iodine atoms to tune the morphology, particularly in the vertical direction, which can become a promising direction for future optimization of OSCs.Entities:
Keywords: open-circuit voltage; organic solar cells; power conversion efficiency; solid additive; vertical phase separation
Year: 2022 PMID: 35315238 PMCID: PMC9108622 DOI: 10.1002/advs.202200578
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Adv Sci (Weinh) ISSN: 2198-3844 Impact factor: 17.521
Figure 1a) Chemical structures of D18‐Cl, DIB, and L8‐BO. b) UV–vis absorption spectra of blend films. c) PL spectra of the pure and blend films (excited at 532 nm).
Figure 2a) J–V curves. b) EQE response and integrated J SC of best‐performing devices. c) ΔEQE characteristic. d) J ph versus V eff characteristics and e) J SC versus light intensity of the optimized devices. f) Comparison of our results with previously reported PCE and V OC for binary OSCs.
Performance of the optimized binary OSCs under illumination of AM 1.5 G, 100 mW cm−2
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| FF | PCE | calculated |
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| [V] | [mA cm−2] | [%] | [%] | [mA cm−2] | |
| D18‐Cl/L8‐BO | 0.950 (0.949 ± 0.002) | 24.1 (23.8 ± 0.4) | 66.4 (65.7 ± 0.9) | 15.1 (14.8 ± 0.3) | 23.7 |
| D18‐Cl/L8‐BO/DIB | 0.922 (0.920 ± 0.003) | 26.6 (26.1 ± 0.7) | 75.6 (75.1 ± 0.5) | 18.7 (18.3 ± 0.5) | 25.0 |
D/A = 1/1.2 (w/w);
Average values with standard deviation (in parenthesis) are obtained from 15 independent devices;
DIB concentration is 10 mg mL−1.
Figure 3a,b) 2D GIWAXS and c,d) GTSAXS patterns of D18‐Cl/L8‐BO and D18‐Cl/L8‐BO/DIB blend films.
Figure 4a,c) Optimized structures and b,d) isosurface maps of IRI for L8‐BO/DIB and D18‐Cl/DIB complexes at B3LYP/6‐31G(d) level.
Figure 5a–f) 2D color TA spectra and the representative spectra at indicated delay times of pure L8‐BO, D18‐2Cl/L8‐BO, and D18‐Cl/L8‐BO/DIB blend films under 750 nm excitation. g) TA kinetics and h) fitting results (τ 1 and τ 2) of relevant blends showing two steps hole‐transfer process. i) TRPL of pure and blend films under 750 nm excitation.