7.7% Efficient All-Polymer Solar Cells

Hwang, Ye-Jin; Courtright, Brett A.  E.; Ferreira, Amy S.; Tolbert, Sarah H.; Jenekhe, Samson A.

doi:10.1002/adma.201501604

7.7% Efficient All-Polymer Solar Cells

Journal Article · Thu Jul 02 04:00:00 EDT 2015 · Advanced Materials

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1002/adma.201501604· OSTI ID:1386004

Hwang, Ye-Jin ^[1]; Courtright, Brett A. E. ^[1]; Ferreira, Amy S. ^[2]; Tolbert, Sarah H. ^[2]; Jenekhe, Samson A. ^[1]

Department of Chemical Engineering and Department of Chemistry, University of Washington, Seattle WA 98195-1750 USA
Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry and Department of Materials Science and Engineering, The California NanoSystems Institute, University of California, Los Angeles Los Angeles CA 90095-1569 USA

By controlling the polymer/polymer blend self-organization rate, all-polymer solar cells composed of a high-mobility, crystalline, naphthalene diimide-selenophene copolymer acceptor and a benzodithiophene-thieno[3,4-b]thiophene copolymer donor are achieved with a record 7.7% power conversion efficiency and a record short-circuit current density (18.8 mA cm-2).

Research Organization:: Energy Frontier Research Centers (EFRC) (United States). Molecularly Engineered Energy Materials (MEEM)

Sponsoring Organization:: USDOE SC Office of Basic Energy Sciences (SC-22)

DOE Contract Number:: SC0001342

OSTI ID:: 1386004

Journal Information:: Advanced Materials, Journal Name: Advanced Materials Journal Issue: 31 Vol. 27; ISSN 0935-9648

Publisher:: Wiley

Country of Publication:: United States

Language:: English

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