TY - JOUR
T1 - High-efficiency organic solar cells enabled by an alcohol-washable solid additive
AU - Xie, Yuanpeng
AU - Ryu, Hwa Sook
AU - Han, Lili
AU - Cai, Yunhao
AU - Duan, Xiaopeng
AU - Wei, Donghui
AU - Woo, Han Young
AU - Sun, Yanming
N1 - Funding Information:
This work was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (52003013, 21734001, 51825301) and China Postdoctoral Science Foundation (BX20190023). H. W. Y acknowledges the financial support by the National Research Foundation (NRF) of Korea (2016M1A2A2940911, 2019R1A6A1A11044070). The authors thank Prof. Yanlin Song (ICCAS) for the assistance with optical microscope measurements.
Publisher Copyright:
© 2021, Science China Press and Springer-Verlag GmbH Germany, part of Springer Nature.
PY - 2021/12
Y1 - 2021/12
N2 - The solvent additive strategy has been widely utilized to boost the power conversion efficiency (PCE) of organic solar cells (OSCs). However, the residual solvent additive in the active layer tends to induce a gradual morphology degradation and further influences the long-term stability of OSCs. Here, a solid additive, 1,4-diiodobenzene (DIB), was introduced to fabricate efficient OSCs. We found that the treatment of DIB can lead to optimized morphology to form a bicontinuous network with intensified intermolecular packing in the donor and acceptor phases. Notably, DIB can be easily removed from the active layer via a simple alcohol washing process and no further post-thermal annealing is needed, which is desirable for large-scale manufacturing of OSCs. As a result, high efficiencies of 17.47% for PM6:Y6 and 18.13% (certified as 17.7%) for PM6:BTP-eC9 binary OSCs are achieved, which are among the highest efficiencies reported for binary OSCs thus far. Moreover, OSCs fabricated with DIB also exhibit superior stability compared with the as-cast and traditional solvent additive processed devices. Additionally, DIB was successfully applied in different active layers, manifesting its general applicability. This work provides a feasible approach to enhance both the efficiency and stability of OSCs. [Figure not available: see fulltext.]
AB - The solvent additive strategy has been widely utilized to boost the power conversion efficiency (PCE) of organic solar cells (OSCs). However, the residual solvent additive in the active layer tends to induce a gradual morphology degradation and further influences the long-term stability of OSCs. Here, a solid additive, 1,4-diiodobenzene (DIB), was introduced to fabricate efficient OSCs. We found that the treatment of DIB can lead to optimized morphology to form a bicontinuous network with intensified intermolecular packing in the donor and acceptor phases. Notably, DIB can be easily removed from the active layer via a simple alcohol washing process and no further post-thermal annealing is needed, which is desirable for large-scale manufacturing of OSCs. As a result, high efficiencies of 17.47% for PM6:Y6 and 18.13% (certified as 17.7%) for PM6:BTP-eC9 binary OSCs are achieved, which are among the highest efficiencies reported for binary OSCs thus far. Moreover, OSCs fabricated with DIB also exhibit superior stability compared with the as-cast and traditional solvent additive processed devices. Additionally, DIB was successfully applied in different active layers, manifesting its general applicability. This work provides a feasible approach to enhance both the efficiency and stability of OSCs. [Figure not available: see fulltext.]
KW - alcohol washing process
KW - efficiency
KW - organic solar cells
KW - solid additive
KW - stability
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U2 - 10.1007/s11426-021-1121-y
DO - 10.1007/s11426-021-1121-y
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85117283770
SN - 1674-7291
VL - 64
SP - 2161
EP - 2168
JO - Science China Chemistry
JF - Science China Chemistry
IS - 12
ER -