Improved Domain Size and Purity Enables Efficient All‐Small‐Molecule Ternary Solar Cells
Abstract
Abstract An all‐small‐molecule ternary solar cell is achieved with a power conversion efficiency of 10.48% by incorporating phenyl‐C 71 ‐butyric‐acid‐methyl ester (PC 71 BM) into a nonfullerene binary system. The addition of PC 71 BM is found to modulate the film morphology by improving the domain purity and decreasing the domain size. This modulation facilitates charge generation and suppresses charge recombination, as manifested by the significantly enhanced short‐circuit current density and fill factor. The results correlate the domain characteristics with the device performance and offer new insight from the perspective of morphology modulation for constructing efficient ternary devices.
- Authors:
-
- State Key Laboratory of Polymer Physics and Chemistry Beijing National Laboratory for Molecular Sciences Institute of Chemistry Chinese Academy of Sciences Beijing 100190 P. R. China, School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering University of Chinese Academy of Sciences Beijing 100049 P. R. China
- State Key Laboratory for Mechanical Behavior of Materials Xi'an Jiaotong University Xi'an 710049 P. R. China
- State Key Laboratory of Polymer Physics and Chemistry Beijing National Laboratory for Molecular Sciences Institute of Chemistry Chinese Academy of Sciences Beijing 100190 P. R. China
- Publication Date:
- Sponsoring Org.:
- USDOE
- OSTI Identifier:
- 1395600
- Grant/Contract Number:
- DE‐AC02‐05CH11231
- Resource Type:
- Publisher's Accepted Manuscript
- Journal Name:
- Advanced Materials
- Additional Journal Information:
- Journal Name: Advanced Materials Journal Volume: 29 Journal Issue: 42; Journal ID: ISSN 0935-9648
- Publisher:
- Wiley Blackwell (John Wiley & Sons)
- Country of Publication:
- Germany
- Language:
- English
Citation Formats
Zhang, Hao, Wang, Xiaohui, Yang, Liyan, Zhang, Shaoqing, Zhang, Yun, He, Chang, Ma, Wei, and Hou, Jianhui. Improved Domain Size and Purity Enables Efficient All‐Small‐Molecule Ternary Solar Cells. Germany: N. p., 2017.
Web. doi:10.1002/adma.201703777.
Zhang, Hao, Wang, Xiaohui, Yang, Liyan, Zhang, Shaoqing, Zhang, Yun, He, Chang, Ma, Wei, & Hou, Jianhui. Improved Domain Size and Purity Enables Efficient All‐Small‐Molecule Ternary Solar Cells. Germany. https://doi.org/10.1002/adma.201703777
Zhang, Hao, Wang, Xiaohui, Yang, Liyan, Zhang, Shaoqing, Zhang, Yun, He, Chang, Ma, Wei, and Hou, Jianhui. Fri .
"Improved Domain Size and Purity Enables Efficient All‐Small‐Molecule Ternary Solar Cells". Germany. https://doi.org/10.1002/adma.201703777.
@article{osti_1395600,
title = {Improved Domain Size and Purity Enables Efficient All‐Small‐Molecule Ternary Solar Cells},
author = {Zhang, Hao and Wang, Xiaohui and Yang, Liyan and Zhang, Shaoqing and Zhang, Yun and He, Chang and Ma, Wei and Hou, Jianhui},
abstractNote = {Abstract An all‐small‐molecule ternary solar cell is achieved with a power conversion efficiency of 10.48% by incorporating phenyl‐C 71 ‐butyric‐acid‐methyl ester (PC 71 BM) into a nonfullerene binary system. The addition of PC 71 BM is found to modulate the film morphology by improving the domain purity and decreasing the domain size. This modulation facilitates charge generation and suppresses charge recombination, as manifested by the significantly enhanced short‐circuit current density and fill factor. The results correlate the domain characteristics with the device performance and offer new insight from the perspective of morphology modulation for constructing efficient ternary devices.},
doi = {10.1002/adma.201703777},
journal = {Advanced Materials},
number = 42,
volume = 29,
place = {Germany},
year = {Fri Sep 29 00:00:00 EDT 2017},
month = {Fri Sep 29 00:00:00 EDT 2017}
}
Free Publicly Available Full Text
Publisher's Version of Record
https://doi.org/10.1002/adma.201703777
https://doi.org/10.1002/adma.201703777
Other availability
Cited by: 83 works
Citation information provided by
Web of Science
Web of Science
Save to My Library
You must Sign In or Create an Account in order to save documents to your library.
Works referenced in this record:
Three-Bladed Rylene Propellers with Three-Dimensional Network Assembly for Organic Electronics
journal, August 2016
- Meng, Dong; Fu, Huiting; Xiao, Chengyi
- Journal of the American Chemical Society, Vol. 138, Issue 32
Polymer Acceptor Based on Double B←N Bridged Bipyridine (BNBP) Unit for High-Efficiency All-Polymer Solar Cells
journal, May 2016
- Long, Xiaojing; Ding, Zicheng; Dou, Chuandong
- Advanced Materials, Vol. 28, Issue 30
Solution-processed organic tandem solar cells with power conversion efficiencies >12%
journal, December 2016
- Li, Miaomiao; Gao, Ke; Wan, Xiangjian
- Nature Photonics, Vol. 11, Issue 2
Ternary-Blend Polymer Solar Cells Combining Fullerene and Nonfullerene Acceptors to Synergistically Boost the Photovoltaic Performance
journal, September 2016
- Lu, Heng; Zhang, Jicheng; Chen, Jianya
- Advanced Materials, Vol. 28, Issue 43
Ternary Polymer Solar Cells based on Two Acceptors and One Donor for Achieving 12.2% Efficiency
journal, November 2016
- Zhao, Wenchao; Li, Sunsun; Zhang, Shaoqing
- Advanced Materials, Vol. 29, Issue 2
Compositional Dependence of the Open-Circuit Voltage in Ternary Blend Bulk Heterojunction Solar Cells Based on Two Donor Polymers
journal, May 2012
- Khlyabich, Petr P.; Burkhart, Beate; Thompson, Barry C.
- Journal of the American Chemical Society, Vol. 134, Issue 22
Morphology optimization in ternary organic solar cells
journal, December 2016
- Zhang, Lin; Ma, Wei
- Chinese Journal of Polymer Science, Vol. 35, Issue 2
Fluorination-enabled optimal morphology leads to over 11% efficiency for inverted small-molecule organic solar cells
journal, December 2016
- Deng, Dan; Zhang, Yajie; Zhang, Jianqi
- Nature Communications, Vol. 7, Issue 1
Ternary Organic Solar Cells Based on Two Compatible Nonfullerene Acceptors with Power Conversion Efficiency >10%
journal, September 2016
- Liu, Tao; Guo, Yuan; Yi, Yuanping
- Advanced Materials, Vol. 28, Issue 45
Fast charge separation in a non-fullerene organic solar cell with a small driving force
journal, June 2016
- Liu, Jing; Chen, Shangshang; Qian, Deping
- Nature Energy, Vol. 1, Issue 7
Solution-Processed and High-Performance Organic Solar Cells Using Small Molecules with a Benzodithiophene Unit
journal, May 2013
- Zhou, Jiaoyan; Zuo, Yi; Wan, Xiangjian
- Journal of the American Chemical Society, Vol. 135, Issue 23
Molecular Optimization Enables over 13% Efficiency in Organic Solar Cells
journal, May 2017
- Zhao, Wenchao; Li, Sunsun; Yao, Huifeng
- Journal of the American Chemical Society, Vol. 139, Issue 21
Subtle Balance Between Length Scale of Phase Separation and Domain Purification in Small-Molecule Bulk-Heterojunction Blends under Solvent Vapor Treatment
journal, September 2015
- Li, Miaomiao; Liu, Feng; Wan, Xiangjian
- Advanced Materials, Vol. 27, Issue 40
Soft x-ray scattering facility at the Advanced Light Source with real-time data processing and analysis
journal, April 2012
- Gann, E.; Young, A. T.; Collins, B. A.
- Review of Scientific Instruments, Vol. 83, Issue 4
A SAXS/WAXS/GISAXS Beamline with Multilayer Monochromator
journal, October 2010
- Hexemer, Alexander; Bras, Wim; Glossinger, James
- Journal of Physics: Conference Series, Vol. 247
Conjugated Polymer–Small Molecule Alloy Leads to High Efficient Ternary Organic Solar Cells
journal, June 2015
- Zhang, Jianqi; Zhang, Yajie; Fang, Jin
- Journal of the American Chemical Society, Vol. 137, Issue 25
High performance all-small-molecule solar cells: engineering the nanomorphology via processing additives
journal, January 2016
- Min, Jie; Kwon, Oh Kyu; Cui, Chaohua
- Journal of Materials Chemistry A, Vol. 4, Issue 37
“Solvent Annealing” Effect in Polymer Solar Cells Based on Poly(3-hexylthiophene) and Methanofullerenes
journal, July 2007
- Li, G.; Yao, Y.; Yang, H.
- Advanced Functional Materials, Vol. 17, Issue 10, p. 1636-1644
Improved Performance of Ternary Polymer Solar Cells Based on A Nonfullerene Electron Cascade Acceptor
journal, December 2016
- Fan, Baobing; Zhong, Wenkai; Jiang, Xiao-Fang
- Advanced Energy Materials, Vol. 7, Issue 11
Control of Mesoscale Morphology and Photovoltaic Performance in Diketopyrrolopyrrole-Based Small Band Gap Terpolymers
journal, October 2016
- Ye, Long; Jiao, Xuechen; Zhang, Shaoqing
- Advanced Energy Materials, Vol. 7, Issue 3
Polymer Photovoltaic Cells: Enhanced Efficiencies via a Network of Internal Donor-Acceptor Heterojunctions
journal, December 1995
- Yu, G.; Gao, J.; Hummelen, J. C.
- Science, Vol. 270, Issue 5243, p. 1789-1791
Design, Synthesis, and Photovoltaic Characterization of a Small Molecular Acceptor with an Ultra-Narrow Band Gap
journal, February 2017
- Yao, Huifeng; Cui, Yong; Yu, Runnan
- Angewandte Chemie, Vol. 129, Issue 11
Domain Purity, Miscibility, and Molecular Orientation at Donor/Acceptor Interfaces in High Performance Organic Solar Cells: Paths to Further Improvement
journal, March 2013
- Ma, Wei; Tumbleston, John R.; Wang, Ming
- Advanced Energy Materials, Vol. 3, Issue 7
High-efficiency solution processable polymer photovoltaic cells by self-organization of polymer blends
journal, October 2005
- Li, Gang; Shrotriya, Vishal; Huang, Jinsong
- Nature Materials, Vol. 4, Issue 11, p. 864-868
Design Rules for Donors in Bulk-Heterojunction Solar Cells—Towards 10 % Energy-Conversion Efficiency
journal, March 2006
- Scharber, M. C.; Mühlbacher, D.; Koppe, M.
- Advanced Materials, Vol. 18, Issue 6, p. 789-794
Polymer–Fullerene Composite Solar Cells
journal, January 2008
- Thompson, Barry C.; Fréchet, Jean M. J.
- Angewandte Chemie International Edition, Vol. 47, Issue 1, p. 58-77
Reducing the efficiency–stability–cost gap of organic photovoltaics with highly efficient and stable small molecule acceptor ternary solar cells
journal, November 2016
- Baran, Derya; Ashraf, Raja Shahid; Hanifi, David A.
- Nature Materials, Vol. 16, Issue 3
Fine-Tuned Photoactive and Interconnection Layers for Achieving over 13% Efficiency in a Fullerene-Free Tandem Organic Solar Cell
journal, May 2017
- Cui, Yong; Yao, Huifeng; Gao, Bowei
- Journal of the American Chemical Society, Vol. 139, Issue 21
11.4% Efficiency non-fullerene polymer solar cells with trialkylsilyl substituted 2D-conjugated polymer as donor
journal, December 2016
- Bin, Haijun; Gao, Liang; Zhang, Zhi-Guo
- Nature Communications, Vol. 7, Issue 1
A Facile Planar Fused-Ring Electron Acceptor for As-Cast Polymer Solar Cells with 8.71% Efficiency
journal, February 2016
- Lin, Yuze; He, Qiao; Zhao, Fuwen
- Journal of the American Chemical Society, Vol. 138, Issue 9
Alloy Acceptor: Superior Alternative to PCBM toward Efficient and Stable Organic Solar Cells
journal, June 2016
- Cheng, Pei; Yan, Cenqi; Wu, Yang
- Advanced Materials, Vol. 28, Issue 36
New insight of molecular interaction, crystallization and phase separation in higher performance small molecular solar cells via solvent vapor annealing
journal, December 2016
- Gao, Ke; Deng, Wanyuan; Xiao, Liangang
- Nano Energy, Vol. 30
Efficient Tandem Polymer Solar Cells Fabricated by All-Solution Processing
journal, July 2007
- Kim, Jin Young; Lee, Kwanghee; Coates, Nelson E.
- Science, Vol. 317, Issue 5835, p. 222-225
Two Well-Miscible Acceptors Work as One for Efficient Fullerene-Free Organic Solar Cells
journal, May 2017
- Yu, Runnan; Zhang, Shaoqing; Yao, Huifeng
- Advanced Materials, Vol. 29, Issue 26
A Series of Simple Oligomer-like Small Molecules Based on Oligothiophenes for Solution-Processed Solar Cells with High Efficiency
journal, March 2015
- Kan, Bin; Li, Miaomiao; Zhang, Qian
- Journal of the American Chemical Society, Vol. 137, Issue 11
High-Performance Ternary Organic Solar Cell Enabled by a Thick Active Layer Containing a Liquid Crystalline Small Molecule Donor
journal, February 2017
- Zhang, Guichuan; Zhang, Kai; Yin, Qingwu
- Journal of the American Chemical Society, Vol. 139, Issue 6
Small-Molecule Acceptor Based on the Heptacyclic Benzodi(cyclopentadithiophene) Unit for Highly Efficient Nonfullerene Organic Solar Cells
journal, March 2017
- Kan, Bin; Feng, Huanran; Wan, Xiangjian
- Journal of the American Chemical Society, Vol. 139, Issue 13
A polymer tandem solar cell with 10.6% power conversion efficiency
journal, February 2013
- You, Jingbi; Dou, Letian; Yoshimura, Ken
- Nature Communications, Vol. 4, Issue 1
New Wide Band Gap Donor for Efficient Fullerene-Free All-Small-Molecule Organic Solar Cells
journal, January 2017
- Yang, Liyan; Zhang, Shaoqing; He, Chang
- Journal of the American Chemical Society, Vol. 139, Issue 5
Charge carrier recombination in organic solar cells
journal, December 2013
- Proctor, Christopher M.; Kuik, Martijn; Nguyen, Thuc-Quyen
- Progress in Polymer Science, Vol. 38, Issue 12
Organic Ternary Solar Cells: A Review
journal, May 2013
- Ameri, Tayebeh; Khoram, Parisa; Min, Jie
- Advanced Materials, Vol. 25, Issue 31
9.73% Efficiency Nonfullerene All Organic Small Molecule Solar Cells with Absorption-Complementary Donor and Acceptor
journal, March 2017
- Bin, Haijun; Yang, Yankang; Zhang, Zhi-Guo
- Journal of the American Chemical Society, Vol. 139, Issue 14
Non-Fullerene Electron Acceptors for Use in Organic Solar Cells
journal, October 2015
- Nielsen, Christian B.; Holliday, Sarah; Chen, Hung-Yang
- Accounts of Chemical Research, Vol. 48, Issue 11