Barrierless Free Charge Generation in the High-Performance PM6:Y6 Bulk Heterojunction Non-Fullerene Solar Cell.

driving force non-fullerene acceptors organic solar cells photocurrent generation

Journal

Advanced materials (Deerfield Beach, Fla.)
ISSN: 1521-4095
Titre abrégé: Adv Mater
Pays: Germany
ID NLM: 9885358

Informations de publication

Date de publication:
Mar 2020
Historique:
received: 18 10 2019
revised: 19 12 2019
pubmed: 25 1 2020
medline: 25 1 2020
entrez: 25 1 2020
Statut: ppublish

Résumé

Organic solar cells are currently experiencing a second golden age thanks to the development of novel non-fullerene acceptors (NFAs). Surprisingly, some of these blends exhibit high efficiencies despite a low energy offset at the heterojunction. Herein, free charge generation in the high-performance blend of the donor polymer PM6 with the NFA Y6 is thoroughly investigated as a function of internal field, temperature and excitation energy. Results show that photocurrent generation is essentially barrierless with near-unity efficiency, regardless of excitation energy. Efficient charge separation is maintained over a wide temperature range, down to 100 K, despite the small driving force for charge generation. Studies on a blend with a low concentration of the NFA, measurements of the energetic disorder, and theoretical modeling suggest that CT state dissociation is assisted by the electrostatic interfacial field which for Y6 is large enough to compensate the Coulomb dissociation barrier.

Identifiants

pubmed: 31975446
doi: 10.1002/adma.201906763
doi:

Types de publication

Journal Article

Langues

eng

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IM

Pagination

e1906763

Subventions

Organisme : National Natural Science Foundation of China
ID : 21875286
Organisme : Swedish Energy Agency Energimyndigheten
ID : 2016-010174
Organisme : BMBF
ID : FKZ 13N13661
Organisme : BMBF
ID : FKZ 13N13656
Organisme : European Union Horizon 2020 research and innovation program
ID : 646259
Organisme : Energimyndigheten
ID : 2016-010174

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© 2020 The Authors. Published by WILEY-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim.

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Auteurs

Lorena Perdigón-Toro (L)

Soft Matter Physics, Institute of Physics and Astronomy, University of Potsdam, Karl-Liebknecht-Str. 24-25, 14476, Potsdam-Golm, Germany.
Disordered Semiconductor Optoelectronics, Institute of Physics and Astronomy, University of Potsdam, Karl-Liebknecht-Str. 24-25, 14476, Potsdam-Golm, Germany.

Huotian Zhang (H)

Department of Physics, Chemistry and Biology (IFM), Linköping University, 581 83, Linköping, Sweden.

Anastasia Markina (A)

Max Planck Institute for Polymer Research, Ackermannweg 10, 55128, Mainz, Germany.

Jun Yuan (J)

College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Central South University, Changsha, 410083, P. R. China.

Seyed Mehrdad Hosseini (SM)

Disordered Semiconductor Optoelectronics, Institute of Physics and Astronomy, University of Potsdam, Karl-Liebknecht-Str. 24-25, 14476, Potsdam-Golm, Germany.

Christian M Wolff (CM)

Soft Matter Physics, Institute of Physics and Astronomy, University of Potsdam, Karl-Liebknecht-Str. 24-25, 14476, Potsdam-Golm, Germany.

Guangzheng Zuo (G)

Soft Matter Physics, Institute of Physics and Astronomy, University of Potsdam, Karl-Liebknecht-Str. 24-25, 14476, Potsdam-Golm, Germany.

Martin Stolterfoht (M)

Soft Matter Physics, Institute of Physics and Astronomy, University of Potsdam, Karl-Liebknecht-Str. 24-25, 14476, Potsdam-Golm, Germany.

Yingping Zou (Y)

College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Central South University, Changsha, 410083, P. R. China.

Feng Gao (F)

Department of Physics, Chemistry and Biology (IFM), Linköping University, 581 83, Linköping, Sweden.

Denis Andrienko (D)

Max Planck Institute for Polymer Research, Ackermannweg 10, 55128, Mainz, Germany.

Safa Shoaee (S)

Disordered Semiconductor Optoelectronics, Institute of Physics and Astronomy, University of Potsdam, Karl-Liebknecht-Str. 24-25, 14476, Potsdam-Golm, Germany.

Dieter Neher (D)

Soft Matter Physics, Institute of Physics and Astronomy, University of Potsdam, Karl-Liebknecht-Str. 24-25, 14476, Potsdam-Golm, Germany.

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