Polymer non-fullerene solar cells of vastly different efficiencies for minor side-chain modification: impact of charge transfer, carrier lifetime, morphology and mobility
Abstract
The performance of the 11.25% efficient PBDB-T : ITIC system degraded to 4.35% after a minor side-chain modification in PBDB-O : ITIC. In this study, the underlying reasons behind this vast difference in efficiencies are investigated.
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- Department of Physics and Organic and Carbon Electronics Laboratory (ORACEL), North Carolina State University, Raleigh, USA
- Department of Physics and Organic and Carbon Electronics Laboratory (ORACEL), North Carolina State University, Raleigh, USA, Department of Chemistry and Physics
- State Key Laboratory of Polymer Physics and Chemistry, Beijing National Laboratory of Molecular Sciences, Institute of Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100190
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- Sponsoring Org.:
- USDOE Office of Science (SC), Basic Energy Sciences (BES)
- OSTI Identifier:
- 1454297
- Grant/Contract Number:
- AC02-05CH11231
- Resource Type:
- Publisher's Accepted Manuscript
- Journal Name:
- Journal of Materials Chemistry. A
- Additional Journal Information:
- Journal Name: Journal of Materials Chemistry. A Journal Volume: 6 Journal Issue: 26; Journal ID: ISSN 2050-7488
- Publisher:
- Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC)
- Country of Publication:
- United Kingdom
- Language:
- English
Citation Formats
Awartani, Omar M., Gautam, Bhoj, Zhao, Wenchao, Younts, Robert, Hou, Jianhui, Gundogdu, Kenan, and Ade, Harald. Polymer non-fullerene solar cells of vastly different efficiencies for minor side-chain modification: impact of charge transfer, carrier lifetime, morphology and mobility. United Kingdom: N. p., 2018.
Web. doi:10.1039/C7TA01746D.
Awartani, Omar M., Gautam, Bhoj, Zhao, Wenchao, Younts, Robert, Hou, Jianhui, Gundogdu, Kenan, & Ade, Harald. Polymer non-fullerene solar cells of vastly different efficiencies for minor side-chain modification: impact of charge transfer, carrier lifetime, morphology and mobility. United Kingdom. https://doi.org/10.1039/C7TA01746D
Awartani, Omar M., Gautam, Bhoj, Zhao, Wenchao, Younts, Robert, Hou, Jianhui, Gundogdu, Kenan, and Ade, Harald. Mon .
"Polymer non-fullerene solar cells of vastly different efficiencies for minor side-chain modification: impact of charge transfer, carrier lifetime, morphology and mobility". United Kingdom. https://doi.org/10.1039/C7TA01746D.
@article{osti_1454297,
title = {Polymer non-fullerene solar cells of vastly different efficiencies for minor side-chain modification: impact of charge transfer, carrier lifetime, morphology and mobility},
author = {Awartani, Omar M. and Gautam, Bhoj and Zhao, Wenchao and Younts, Robert and Hou, Jianhui and Gundogdu, Kenan and Ade, Harald},
abstractNote = {The performance of the 11.25% efficient PBDB-T : ITIC system degraded to 4.35% after a minor side-chain modification in PBDB-O : ITIC. In this study, the underlying reasons behind this vast difference in efficiencies are investigated.},
doi = {10.1039/C7TA01746D},
journal = {Journal of Materials Chemistry. A},
number = 26,
volume = 6,
place = {United Kingdom},
year = {Mon Jan 01 00:00:00 EST 2018},
month = {Mon Jan 01 00:00:00 EST 2018}
}
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