Nano-Micro Letters, Volume. 16, Issue 1, 030(2024)
Step-by-Step Modulation of Crystalline Features and Exciton Kinetics for 19.2% Efficiency Ortho-Xylene Processed Organic Solar Cells
With plenty of popular and effective ternary organic solar cells (OSCs) construction strategies proposed and applied, its power conversion efficiencies (PCEs) have come to a new level of over 19% in single-junction devices. However, previous studies are heavily based in chloroform (CF) leaving behind substantial knowledge deficiencies in understanding the influence of solvent choice when introducing a third component. Herein, we present a case where a newly designed asymmetric small molecular acceptor using fluoro-methoxylated end-group modification strategy, named BTP-BO-3FO with enlarged bandgap, brings different morphological evolution and performance improvement effect on host system PM6:BTP-eC9, processed by CF and ortho-xylene (o-XY). With detailed analyses supported by a series of experiments, the best PCE of 19.24% for green solvent-processed OSCs is found to be a fruit of finely tuned crystalline ordering and general aggregation motif, which furthermore nourishes a favorable charge generation and recombination behavior. Likewise, over 19% PCE can be achieved by replacing spin-coating with blade coating for active layer deposition. This work focuses on understanding the commonly met yet frequently ignored issues when building ternary blends to demonstrate cutting-edge device performance, hence, will be instructive to other ternary OSC works in the future.
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Bosen Zou, Weiwei Wu, Top Archie Dela Peña, Ruijie Ma, Yongmin Luo, Yulong Hai, Xiyun Xie, Mingjie Li, Zhenghui Luo, Jiaying Wu, Chuluo Yang, Gang Li, He Yan. Step-by-Step Modulation of Crystalline Features and Exciton Kinetics for 19.2% Efficiency Ortho-Xylene Processed Organic Solar Cells[J]. Nano-Micro Letters, 2024, 16(1): 030
Category: Research Articles
Received: Aug. 8, 2023
Accepted: Oct. 6, 2023
Published Online: Jan. 23, 2025
The Author Email: Ma Ruijie (ruijie.ma@polyu.edu.hk), Luo Zhenghui (zhhuiluo@szu.edu.cn), Wu Jiaying (jiayingwu@ust.hk), Yan He (hyan@ust.hk)