High-efficiency and air-stable P3HT-based polymer solar cells with a new non-fullerene acceptor

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作者
Holliday, Sarah [1 ,2 ]
Ashraf, Raja Shahid [1 ,2 ]
Wadsworth, Andrew [1 ,2 ]
Baran, Derya [1 ,2 ]
Yousaf, Syeda Amber [3 ]
Nielsen, Christian B. [1 ,2 ]
Tan, Ching-Hong [1 ,2 ]
Dimitrov, Stoichko D. [1 ,2 ]
Shang, Zhengrong [4 ]
Gasparini, Nicola [5 ]
Alamoudi, Maha [6 ]
Laquai, Frederic [6 ]
Brabec, Christoph J. [5 ]
Salleo, Alberto [4 ]
Durrant, James R. [1 ,2 ]
McCulloch, Iain [1 ,2 ,6 ]
机构
[1] Univ London Imperial Coll Sci Technol & Med, Dept Chem, London SW7 2AZ, England
[2] Univ London Imperial Coll Sci Technol & Med, Ctr Plast Elect, London SW7 2AZ, England
[3] Govt Coll Univ, Dept Phys, Lahore 54000, Pakistan
[4] Stanford Univ, Dept Mat Sci & Engn, 476 Lomita Mall, Stanford, CA 94305 USA
[5] Univ Erlangen Nurnberg, Inst Mat Elect & Energy Technol, D-91058 Erlangen, Germany
[6] King Abdullah Univ Sci & Technol, Solar & Photovolta Engn Res Ctr, Thuwal 239556900, Saudi Arabia
来源
NATURE COMMUNICATIONS | 2016年 / 7卷
基金
英国工程与自然科学研究理事会;
关键词
POWER-CONVERSION EFFICIENCY; HIGH-PERFORMANCE; ELECTRON-ACCEPTORS; SEMICONDUCTING POLYMERS; TRANSISTORS; MORPHOLOGY; P3HT; RECOMBINATION; OPTIMIZATION; STABILITY;
D O I
10.1038/ncomms11585
中图分类号
O [数理科学和化学]; P [天文学、地球科学]; Q [生物科学]; N [自然科学总论];
学科分类号
07 ; 0710 ; 09 ;
摘要
Solution-processed organic photovoltaics (OPV) offer the attractive prospect of low-cost, light-weight and environmentally benign solar energy production. The highest efficiency OPV at present use low-bandgap donor polymers, many of which suffer from problems with stability and synthetic scalability. They also rely on fullerene-based acceptors, which themselves have issues with cost, stability and limited spectral absorption. Here we present a new non-fullerene acceptor that has been specifically designed to give improved performance alongside the wide bandgap donor poly(3-hexylthiophene), a polymer with significantly better prospects for commercial OPV due to its relative scalability and stability. Thanks to the well-matched optoelectronic and morphological properties of these materials, efficiencies of 6.4% are achieved which is the highest reported for fullerene-free P3HT devices. In addition, dramatically improved air stability is demonstrated relative to other high-efficiency OPV, showing the excellent potential of this new material combination for future technological applications.
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