Nano Energy
Nano Energy
5 years ago

High-performance nonfullerene polymer solar cells with open-circuit voltage over 1V and energy loss as low as 0.54eV

High-performance nonfullerene polymer solar cells with open-circuit voltage over 1V and energy loss as low as 0.54eV
In this work, we developed high efficiency nonfullerene PSCs based on a wide bandgap polymer donor PBPD-Th with a structure of meta-alkoxyphenyl benzodithiophene-alt-thienyl benzodithiophene-4,8-dione and a low bandgap small molecule acceptor ITIC. The PBPD-Th shows a strong absorption in the short wavelength of 300–650nm with a bandgap of 1.91eV, which is complementary with that of ITIC (1.55eV). Moreover, PBPD-Th possesses a deep HOMO level of −5.42eV, which is beneficial to obtain high open-circuit voltage (V oc) in PSCs. As a result, the optimal PSCs based on PBPD-Th: ITIC showed a power conversion efficiency (PCE) of 10.8% with a V oc of up to 1.01V, a high short-circuit current density (J sc) of 18.3mAcm−2 and a fill factor (FF) of 59%, under the illumination of AM 1.5G, 100mWcm−2. Notably, the energy loss (E loss) of the optimal PSCs is 0.54eV, which is smaller than the empirically low threshold of 0.6eV. The PCE of 10.8% is one of the highest values reported in the literatures for the PSCs with V oc over 1.0V.

Publisher URL: www.sciencedirect.com/science

DOI: S2211285517304603

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