Graded bulk-heterojunction enables 17% binary organic solar cells via nonhalogenated open air coating.


Journal

Nature communications
ISSN: 2041-1723
Titre abrégé: Nat Commun
Pays: England
ID NLM: 101528555

Informations de publication

Date de publication:
10 Aug 2021
Historique:
received: 08 02 2021
accepted: 26 07 2021
entrez: 11 8 2021
pubmed: 12 8 2021
medline: 12 8 2021
Statut: epublish

Résumé

Graded bulk-heterojunction (G-BHJ) with well-defined vertical phase separation has potential to surpass classical BHJ in organic solar cells (OSCs). In this work, an effective G-BHJ strategy via nonhalogenated solvent sequential deposition is demonstrated using nonfullerene acceptor (NFA) OSCs. Spin-coated G-BHJ OSCs deliver an outstanding 17.48% power conversion efficiency (PCE). Depth-profiling X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy (DP-XPS) and angle-dependent grazing incidence X-ray diffraction (GI-XRD) techniques enable the visualization of polymer/NFA composition and crystallinity gradient distributions, which benefit charge transport, and enable outstanding thick OSC PCEs (16.25% for 300 nm, 14.37% for 500 nm), which are among the highest reported. Moreover, the nonhalogenated solvent enabled G-BHJ OSC via open-air blade coating and achieved a record 16.77% PCE. The blade-coated G-BHJ has drastically different D-A crystallization kinetics, which suppresses the excessive aggregation induced unfavorable phase separation in BHJ. All these make G-BHJ a feasible and promising strategy towards highly efficient, eco- and manufacture friendly OSCs.

Identifiants

pubmed: 34376697
doi: 10.1038/s41467-021-25148-8
pii: 10.1038/s41467-021-25148-8
pmc: PMC8355148
doi:

Types de publication

Journal Article

Langues

eng

Sous-ensembles de citation

IM

Pagination

4815

Subventions

Organisme : Research Grants Council, University Grants Committee (RGC, UGC)
ID : 14314216
Organisme : Research Grants Council, University Grants Committee (RGC, UGC)
ID : GRF 15218517, CRF C5037-18G, PDFS2021-5S04
Organisme : Shenzhen Science and Technology Innovation Commission
ID : JCYJ 20200109105003940

Informations de copyright

© 2021. The Author(s).

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Auteurs

Ying Zhang (Y)

Department of Electronic and Information Engineering, Research Institute for Smart Energy (RISE), The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong, China.

Kuan Liu (K)

Department of Electronic and Information Engineering, Research Institute for Smart Energy (RISE), The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong, China. kuan-lk.liu@polyu.edu.hk.

Jiaming Huang (J)

Department of Electronic and Information Engineering, Research Institute for Smart Energy (RISE), The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong, China.

Xinxin Xia (X)

Department of Physics, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China.

Jiupeng Cao (J)

Department of Applied Physics, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong, China.

Guangming Zhao (G)

Department of Applied Physics, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong, China.

Patrick W K Fong (PWK)

Department of Electronic and Information Engineering, Research Institute for Smart Energy (RISE), The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong, China.

Ye Zhu (Y)

Department of Applied Physics, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong, China.

Feng Yan (F)

Department of Applied Physics, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong, China.

Yang Yang (Y)

Department of Materials Science and Engineering, UCLA, Los Angeles, CA, USA.

Xinhui Lu (X)

Department of Physics, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China.

Gang Li (G)

Department of Electronic and Information Engineering, Research Institute for Smart Energy (RISE), The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong, China. gang.w.li@polyu.edu.hk.

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