High Efficiency Nonfullerene Polymer Solar Cells with Thick Active Layer and Large Area
Abstract
In this work, high‐efficiency nonfullerene polymer solar cells (PSCs) are developed based on a thiazolothiazole‐containing wide bandgap polymer PTZ1 as donor and a planar IDT‐based narrow bandgap small molecule with four side chains (IDIC) as acceptor. Through thermal annealing treatment, a power conversion efficiency (PCE) of up to 11.5% with an open circuit voltage ( V oc ) of 0.92 V, a short‐circuit current density ( J sc ) of 16.4 mA cm −2 , and a fill factor of 76.2% is achieved. Furthermore, the PSCs based on PTZ1:IDIC still exhibit a relatively high PCE of 9.6% with the active layer thickness of 210 nm and a superior PCE of 10.5% with the device area of up to 0.81 cm 2 . These results indicate that PTZ1 is a promising polymer donor material for highly efficient fullerene‐free PSCs and large‐scale devices fabrication.
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- Laboratory of Advanced Optoelectronic Materials College of Chemistry Chemical Engineering and Materials Science Soochow University Suzhou 215123 China
- State Key Laboratory for Mechanical Behavior of Materials Xi'an Jiaotong University Xi'an 710049 China
- Laboratory of Advanced Optoelectronic Materials College of Chemistry Chemical Engineering and Materials Science Soochow University Suzhou 215123 China, Beijing National Laboratory for Molecular Sciences CAS Key Laboratory of Organic Solids Institute of Chemistry Chinese Academy of Sciences Beijing 100190 China
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- USDOE
- OSTI Identifier:
- 1393691
- Grant/Contract Number:
- DE‐AC02‐05CH11231
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- Publisher's Accepted Manuscript
- Journal Name:
- Advanced Materials
- Additional Journal Information:
- Journal Name: Advanced Materials Journal Volume: 29 Journal Issue: 36; Journal ID: ISSN 0935-9648
- Publisher:
- Wiley Blackwell (John Wiley & Sons)
- Country of Publication:
- Germany
- Language:
- English
Citation Formats
Guo, Bing, Li, Wanbin, Guo, Xia, Meng, Xiangyi, Ma, Wei, Zhang, Maojie, and Li, Yongfang. High Efficiency Nonfullerene Polymer Solar Cells with Thick Active Layer and Large Area. Germany: N. p., 2017.
Web. doi:10.1002/adma.201702291.
Guo, Bing, Li, Wanbin, Guo, Xia, Meng, Xiangyi, Ma, Wei, Zhang, Maojie, & Li, Yongfang. High Efficiency Nonfullerene Polymer Solar Cells with Thick Active Layer and Large Area. Germany. https://doi.org/10.1002/adma.201702291
Guo, Bing, Li, Wanbin, Guo, Xia, Meng, Xiangyi, Ma, Wei, Zhang, Maojie, and Li, Yongfang. Mon .
"High Efficiency Nonfullerene Polymer Solar Cells with Thick Active Layer and Large Area". Germany. https://doi.org/10.1002/adma.201702291.
@article{osti_1393691,
title = {High Efficiency Nonfullerene Polymer Solar Cells with Thick Active Layer and Large Area},
author = {Guo, Bing and Li, Wanbin and Guo, Xia and Meng, Xiangyi and Ma, Wei and Zhang, Maojie and Li, Yongfang},
abstractNote = {In this work, high‐efficiency nonfullerene polymer solar cells (PSCs) are developed based on a thiazolothiazole‐containing wide bandgap polymer PTZ1 as donor and a planar IDT‐based narrow bandgap small molecule with four side chains (IDIC) as acceptor. Through thermal annealing treatment, a power conversion efficiency (PCE) of up to 11.5% with an open circuit voltage ( V oc ) of 0.92 V, a short‐circuit current density ( J sc ) of 16.4 mA cm −2 , and a fill factor of 76.2% is achieved. Furthermore, the PSCs based on PTZ1:IDIC still exhibit a relatively high PCE of 9.6% with the active layer thickness of 210 nm and a superior PCE of 10.5% with the device area of up to 0.81 cm 2 . These results indicate that PTZ1 is a promising polymer donor material for highly efficient fullerene‐free PSCs and large‐scale devices fabrication.},
doi = {10.1002/adma.201702291},
journal = {Advanced Materials},
number = 36,
volume = 29,
place = {Germany},
year = {Mon Jul 24 00:00:00 EDT 2017},
month = {Mon Jul 24 00:00:00 EDT 2017}
}
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