Achieving Balanced Crystallinity of Donor and Acceptor by Combining Blade‐Coating and Ternary Strategies in Organic Solar Cells
Abstract
Abstract As a prototype tool for slot‐die coating, blade‐coating exhibits excellent compatibility with large‐area roll‐to‐roll coating. A ternary organic solar cell based on PBDB‐T:PTB7‐Th:FOIC blends is fabricated by blade‐coating and exhibits a power conversion efficiency of 12.02%, which is one of the highest values for the printed organic solar cells in ambient environment. It is demonstrated that blade‐coating can enhance crystallization of these three materials, but the degree of induction is different (FOIC > PBDB‐T > PTB7‐Th). Thus, the blade‐coated PBDB‐T:FOIC device presents much higher electron mobility than hole mobility due to the very high crystallinity of FOIC. Upon the addition of PTB7‐Th into the blade‐coated PBDB‐T:FOIC blends, the crystallinity of FOIC decreases together with the corresponding electron mobility, due to the better miscibility between PTB7‐Th and FOIC. The ternary strategy not only maintains the well‐matched crystallinity and mobilities, but also increases the photocurrent with complementary light absorption as well as the Förster resonant energy transfer. Furthermore, small domains with homogeneously distributed nanofibers are observed in favor of the exciton dissociation and charge transport. This combination of blade‐coating and ternary strategies exhibits excellent synergistic effect in optimizing morphology, showing great potential in the large‐area fabrication of highly efficient organic solarmore »
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- State Key Laboratory for Mechanical Behavior of Materials Xi'an Jiaotong University Xi'an 710049 China
- Department of Materials Science and Engineering College of Engineering Key Laboratory of Polymer Chemistry and Physics of Ministry of Education Peking University Beijing 100871 China
- College of Materials Science and Engineering North Minzu University Yinchuan 750021 China
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- USDOE
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- 1479534
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- DEAC02‐05CH11231
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- Journal Name:
- Advanced Materials
- Additional Journal Information:
- Journal Name: Advanced Materials Journal Volume: 30 Journal Issue: 51; Journal ID: ISSN 0935-9648
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- Wiley Blackwell (John Wiley & Sons)
- Country of Publication:
- Germany
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- English
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Zhang, Lin, Xu, Xianbin, Lin, Baojun, Zhao, Heng, Li, Tengfei, Xin, Jingming, Bi, Zhaozhao, Qiu, Guanxian, Guo, Shengwei, Zhou, Ke, Zhan, Xiaowei, and Ma, Wei. Achieving Balanced Crystallinity of Donor and Acceptor by Combining Blade‐Coating and Ternary Strategies in Organic Solar Cells. Germany: N. p., 2018.
Web. doi:10.1002/adma.201805041.
Zhang, Lin, Xu, Xianbin, Lin, Baojun, Zhao, Heng, Li, Tengfei, Xin, Jingming, Bi, Zhaozhao, Qiu, Guanxian, Guo, Shengwei, Zhou, Ke, Zhan, Xiaowei, & Ma, Wei. Achieving Balanced Crystallinity of Donor and Acceptor by Combining Blade‐Coating and Ternary Strategies in Organic Solar Cells. Germany. https://doi.org/10.1002/adma.201805041
Zhang, Lin, Xu, Xianbin, Lin, Baojun, Zhao, Heng, Li, Tengfei, Xin, Jingming, Bi, Zhaozhao, Qiu, Guanxian, Guo, Shengwei, Zhou, Ke, Zhan, Xiaowei, and Ma, Wei. Mon .
"Achieving Balanced Crystallinity of Donor and Acceptor by Combining Blade‐Coating and Ternary Strategies in Organic Solar Cells". Germany. https://doi.org/10.1002/adma.201805041.
@article{osti_1479534,
title = {Achieving Balanced Crystallinity of Donor and Acceptor by Combining Blade‐Coating and Ternary Strategies in Organic Solar Cells},
author = {Zhang, Lin and Xu, Xianbin and Lin, Baojun and Zhao, Heng and Li, Tengfei and Xin, Jingming and Bi, Zhaozhao and Qiu, Guanxian and Guo, Shengwei and Zhou, Ke and Zhan, Xiaowei and Ma, Wei},
abstractNote = {Abstract As a prototype tool for slot‐die coating, blade‐coating exhibits excellent compatibility with large‐area roll‐to‐roll coating. A ternary organic solar cell based on PBDB‐T:PTB7‐Th:FOIC blends is fabricated by blade‐coating and exhibits a power conversion efficiency of 12.02%, which is one of the highest values for the printed organic solar cells in ambient environment. It is demonstrated that blade‐coating can enhance crystallization of these three materials, but the degree of induction is different (FOIC > PBDB‐T > PTB7‐Th). Thus, the blade‐coated PBDB‐T:FOIC device presents much higher electron mobility than hole mobility due to the very high crystallinity of FOIC. Upon the addition of PTB7‐Th into the blade‐coated PBDB‐T:FOIC blends, the crystallinity of FOIC decreases together with the corresponding electron mobility, due to the better miscibility between PTB7‐Th and FOIC. The ternary strategy not only maintains the well‐matched crystallinity and mobilities, but also increases the photocurrent with complementary light absorption as well as the Förster resonant energy transfer. Furthermore, small domains with homogeneously distributed nanofibers are observed in favor of the exciton dissociation and charge transport. This combination of blade‐coating and ternary strategies exhibits excellent synergistic effect in optimizing morphology, showing great potential in the large‐area fabrication of highly efficient organic solar cells.},
doi = {10.1002/adma.201805041},
journal = {Advanced Materials},
number = 51,
volume = 30,
place = {Germany},
year = {Mon Oct 15 00:00:00 EDT 2018},
month = {Mon Oct 15 00:00:00 EDT 2018}
}
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