Spectroscopy and Spectral Analysis, Volume. 36, Issue 8, 2363(2016)

Understanding the Effected Efficiencies of Polymer Solar Cells Employing Different Fullerene Multiadducts as Acceptors

HUANG Di1,2, XU Zheng1,2, ZHAO Su-ling1,2, ZHAO Jiao1,2, LI Yang1,2, and ZHAO Ling1,2
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    The application of fullerenes with two or more adducts as acceptors has greatly enhanced the performance of bulk-heterojunction solar cells with poly (3-hexylthiophene) (P3HT) as the donor. The enhancement is caused by a substantial increase in the open-circuit voltage due to a rise in the fullerene lowest unoccupied molecular orbital (LUMO) level when going from monoadducts to multiadducts. While the increase in the open-circuit voltage is obtained with many different polymers, most polymers other than P3HT show a substantially reduced photocurrent when blended with fullerene multi-adducts such as bis adduct of Phenyl-C61 -butyric acid methyl ester (bis-PCBM) or the indene-C60 bis-adduct (ICBA). Here we investigate the reasons for this change in performance of polymer solar cells(PSCs) based on [6,6]-phenyl C70-butyric acid methyl ester (PC70BM), ICBA and bis-PC70BM as the acceptors and poly[[4,8-bis[(2-ethylhexyl)oxy]benzo[1,2-b:4,5-b’]dithiophene-2,6-diyl][3-fluoro-2-[(2-ethylhexyl)carbonyl]thieno[3,4-b]thiophenediyl]](PTB7)as the donor. The cell configuration is ITO/PEDOT: PSS/active layer /LiF/Al .The PSCs with PC70BM, ICBA and bis-PC70BM show PCEs of 7.29%, 4.92% and 3.33%, respectively. The change of performance of the PSCs could be mainly attributed to the different excition generation and charge collection of PSCs employing different fullerene multi-adducts as acceptors.

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    HUANG Di, XU Zheng, ZHAO Su-ling, ZHAO Jiao, LI Yang, ZHAO Ling. Understanding the Effected Efficiencies of Polymer Solar Cells Employing Different Fullerene Multiadducts as Acceptors[J]. Spectroscopy and Spectral Analysis, 2016, 36(8): 2363

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    Received: Feb. 11, 2015

    Accepted: --

    Published Online: Dec. 23, 2016

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    DOI:10.3964/j.issn.1000-0593(2016)08-2363-05

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