Efficiency-Enhanced Scalable Organic Photovoltaics Using Roll-to-Roll Nanoimprint Lithography.

donor-acceptor systems light trapping lithography nanostructures solar cells

Journal

ChemSusChem
ISSN: 1864-564X
Titre abrégé: ChemSusChem
Pays: Germany
ID NLM: 101319536

Informations de publication

Date de publication:
21 Jan 2022
Historique:
revised: 22 10 2021
received: 30 07 2021
pubmed: 27 10 2021
medline: 27 10 2021
entrez: 26 10 2021
Statut: ppublish

Résumé

Light-trapping nanostructures have for decades been researched as a route to enhance the performance of organic solar cells (OSCs). Whereas the power conversion efficiencies (PCEs) of OSCs have reached above 18 %, industrially compatible devices made by scalable processing in air, using only nontoxic solvents and materials, have shown significantly lower performance values. Although light-trapping nanostructures may improve this, the methods for integrating the nanostructures are typically not compatible with industrial scale up. In this work, scalable, industrially compatible, nonfullerene-based OSCs are developed with integrated light-trapping nanostructures at the back electrodes in the devices. The OSCs are made by using scalable roll-to-roll (R2R) and sheet-to-sheet (S2S) processes and the nanostructures are made by using roll-to-plate (R2P) nanoimprint lithography. A fully scalable solution is thereby developed for industrially compatible nanostructured OSCs. The nanostructured devices show enhancements in PCE up to 25 % compared to reference cells, owing to an enhancement in the short-circuit current density (15 %) by enhanced absorption, and improved charge carrier extraction leading to an enhancement in the fill factor (7 %). Optical modeling is utilized to verify the optical effect of the nanostructures. The best devices attain a PCE of 6.5 %, which is the highest reported efficiency for air-processed slot-die coated ITO-free flexible PBDB-T : ITIC devices, here using nontoxic solvents.

Identifiants

pubmed: 34699687
doi: 10.1002/cssc.202101611
doi:

Types de publication

Journal Article

Langues

eng

Sous-ensembles de citation

IM

Pagination

e202101611

Subventions

Organisme : European Regional Development Fund
Organisme : Southern Denmark Growth Forum
Organisme : European Union's Horizon 2020 research and innovation program
ID : 101007084

Informations de copyright

© 2021 Wiley-VCH GmbH.

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Auteurs

Mohammed A Yakoob (MA)

SDU NanoSyd, Mads Clausen Institute, University of Southern Denmark, Alsion 2, 6400, Sønderborg, Denmark.

Jani Lamminaho (J)

SDU NanoSyd, Mads Clausen Institute, University of Southern Denmark, Alsion 2, 6400, Sønderborg, Denmark.

Karlis Petersons (K)

Stensborg A/S, Risø Huse 50, 4000, Roskilde, Denmark.

Ashish Prajapati (A)

School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, POB 653, Beer-Sheva, 8410501, Israel.

Elodie Destouesse (E)

SDU NanoSyd, Mads Clausen Institute, University of Southern Denmark, Alsion 2, 6400, Sønderborg, Denmark.

Bhushan R Patil (BR)

SDU NanoSyd, Mads Clausen Institute, University of Southern Denmark, Alsion 2, 6400, Sønderborg, Denmark.

Horst-Günter Rubahn (HG)

SDU NanoSyd, Mads Clausen Institute, University of Southern Denmark, Alsion 2, 6400, Sønderborg, Denmark.

Gil Shalev (G)

School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, POB 653, Beer-Sheva, 8410501, Israel.
The Ilse-Katz Institute for Nanoscale Science and Technology, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, POB 653, Beer-Sheva, 8410501, Israel.

Jan Stensborg (J)

Stensborg A/S, Risø Huse 50, 4000, Roskilde, Denmark.

Morten Madsen (M)

SDU NanoSyd, Mads Clausen Institute, University of Southern Denmark, Alsion 2, 6400, Sønderborg, Denmark.

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