Reduction in the temperature coefficient of photovoltaic efficiency in all-polymer solar cells using molecular order
Controlling the phase morphology of photo-active layers toward satisfactory charge transport with reduced energetic disorder is the key to obtaining targeted efficiencies in organic solar cells(OSCs).On the basis of an all-polymer model system,i.e.,PM6/PYF-T-o,we investigated the effects of phase morphology on temperature-dependent charge car-rier transport and photovoltaic behavior in all-polymer solar cells prepared through a layer-by-layer(LBL)process.The combined in-situ spectroscopic and morphological analyses reveal that the formation of a fibril structure during the self-assembly of donor molecules and the favorable pure phase of a polymeric acceptor component could promote charge trans-port.Such morphological features reduce the thermal activa-tion energy(Ea)for the carriers.The LBL-processed PM6/PYF-T-o solar cells exhibit a surprisingly small temperature coef-ficient of power conversion efficiency(PCE),i.e.,upon cooling the device to 215 K,the PCE remains at 94.0%of the value at ambient room temperature(RT=298 K)(PCE of 15.65%at 215 K and 16.70%at RT).This study offers an attractive ap-proach for mediating carrier transport and photovoltaic per-formance in OSCs toward applications in a temperature-variable environment.
all-polymer solar celllayer-by-layer processactiva-tion energytemperature dependencein-situ spectroscopic characterization
张伟超、杨镕申、乐耀昌、程倩、张莹玉、张建齐、肖林格、李世麟、姚果、张春峰、周惠琼、张渊
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School of Chemistry,Beijing Advanced Innovation Center for Biomedical Engineering,Beihang University,Beijing 100191,China
Key Laboratory of Nanosystem and Hierarchical Fabrication,CAS Center for Excellence in Nanoscience,National Center for Nanoscience and Technology,Beijing 100190,China
National Laboratory of Solid-State Microstructures,School of Physics and Collaborative Innovation Center for Advanced Microstructures,Nanjing University,Nanjing 210008,China
all-polymer solar cell layer-by-layer process activa-tion energy temperature dependence in-situ spectroscopic characterization
National Natural Science Foundation of ChinaNational Natural Science Foundation of China