TY - JOUR
T1 - Highly efficient ternary solar cells with reduced non-radiative energy loss and enhanced stability via two compatible non-fullerene acceptors
AU - Yan, Xin
AU - Wu, Jingnan
AU - Lv, Junfang
AU - Zhang, Liu
AU - Zhang, Rui
AU - Guo, Xia
AU - Zhang, Maojie
N1 - Funding Information:
M. Z. and X. G. acknowledge the National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC) (No. 51973146), the Jiangsu Provincial Natural Science Foundation (Grant No. BK20190099), the Collaborative Innovation Center of Suzhou Nano Science & Technology, and the Priority Academic Program Development of Jiangsu Higher Education Institutions. R. Z. acknowledges the BL11-NCD-SWEET beamline at ALBA for the GIWAXS experiments. R. Z. acknowledges Julian A. Steele and Eduardo Solano for fruitful discussion and analysis. J. W. thanks the China Scholarship Council.
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© 2022 The Royal Society of Chemistry.
PY - 2022/6/24
Y1 - 2022/6/24
N2 - A ternary strategy by introducing a third component into a binary host system has been proven to be a simple and promising method to boost the power conversion efficiency (PCE) and stability of organic solar cells (OSCs). Herein, a high efficient ternary OSC is fabricated, wherein, a non-fullerene acceptor, namely MOIT-M, is introduced as a third component into the PM6:BTP-eC9 blend. MOIT-M possesses good complementary absorption spectra and aligned cascade energy levels with the host binary blend, which benefits light harvesting, exciton dissociation, and charge transport. Moreover, MOIT-M exhibits good miscibility with BTP-eC9, forming a well-mixed phase, which improves molecular packing for better charge transport and optimizes ternary blend morphology. Notably, the incorporation of MOIT-M suppresses non-radiative recombination, leading to reduced non-radiative energy losses (ΔEnr). As a result, the ternary OSC exhibits a significantly increased PCE of 18.5% with a lower ΔEnr of 0.21 eV in comparison with the control binary PM6:BTP-eC9 device with a PCE of 17.4% and a ΔEnr of 0.24 eV. In addition, the ternary OSC displays better storage stability compared to the PM6:BTP-eC9 system. This work indicates that a ternary strategy via combining two compatible small molecule acceptors is effective to simultaneously improve the efficiency and stability of OSCs.
AB - A ternary strategy by introducing a third component into a binary host system has been proven to be a simple and promising method to boost the power conversion efficiency (PCE) and stability of organic solar cells (OSCs). Herein, a high efficient ternary OSC is fabricated, wherein, a non-fullerene acceptor, namely MOIT-M, is introduced as a third component into the PM6:BTP-eC9 blend. MOIT-M possesses good complementary absorption spectra and aligned cascade energy levels with the host binary blend, which benefits light harvesting, exciton dissociation, and charge transport. Moreover, MOIT-M exhibits good miscibility with BTP-eC9, forming a well-mixed phase, which improves molecular packing for better charge transport and optimizes ternary blend morphology. Notably, the incorporation of MOIT-M suppresses non-radiative recombination, leading to reduced non-radiative energy losses (ΔEnr). As a result, the ternary OSC exhibits a significantly increased PCE of 18.5% with a lower ΔEnr of 0.21 eV in comparison with the control binary PM6:BTP-eC9 device with a PCE of 17.4% and a ΔEnr of 0.24 eV. In addition, the ternary OSC displays better storage stability compared to the PM6:BTP-eC9 system. This work indicates that a ternary strategy via combining two compatible small molecule acceptors is effective to simultaneously improve the efficiency and stability of OSCs.
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U2 - 10.1039/d2ta03941a
DO - 10.1039/d2ta03941a
M3 - Journal article
AN - SCOPUS:85134710312
SN - 2050-7488
VL - 10
SP - 15605
EP - 15613
JO - Journal of Materials Chemistry A
JF - Journal of Materials Chemistry A
IS - 29
ER -