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
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
e202101611Subventions
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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