Polymerized small molecular acceptor based all-polymer solar cells with an efficiency of 16.16% via tuning polymer blend morphology by molecular design

Jiaqi Du, Ke Hu, Jinyuan Zhang, Lei Meng (), Jiling Yue, Indunil Angunawela, Hongping Yan, Shucheng Qin, Xiaolei Kong, Zhanjun Zhang, Bo Guan (), Harald Ade () and Yongfang Li ()
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Jiaqi Du: Chinese Academy of Sciences
Ke Hu: University of Chinese Academy of Sciences
Jinyuan Zhang: Chinese Academy of Sciences
Lei Meng: Chinese Academy of Sciences
Jiling Yue: Chinese Academy of Sciences
Indunil Angunawela: North Carolina State University
Hongping Yan: Stanford University
Shucheng Qin: Chinese Academy of Sciences
Xiaolei Kong: Chinese Academy of Sciences
Zhanjun Zhang: University of Chinese Academy of Sciences
Bo Guan: Chinese Academy of Sciences
Harald Ade: North Carolina State University
Yongfang Li: Chinese Academy of Sciences

Nature Communications, 2021, vol. 12, issue 1, 1-10

Abstract: Abstract All-polymer solar cells (all-PSCs) based on polymerized small molecular acceptors (PSMAs) have made significant progress recently. Here, we synthesize two A-DA’D-A small molecule acceptor based PSMAs of PS-Se with benzo[c][1,2,5]thiadiazole A’-core and PN-Se with benzotriazole A’-core, for the studies of the effect of molecular structure on the photovoltaic performance of the PSMAs. The two PSMAs possess broad absorption with PN-Se showing more red-shifted absorption than PS-Se and suitable electronic energy levels for the application as polymer acceptors in the all-PSCs with PBDB-T as polymer donor. Cryogenic transmission electron microscopy visualizes the aggregation behavior of the PBDB-T donor and the PSMA in their solutions. In addition, a bicontinuous-interpenetrating network in the PBDB-T:PN-Se blend film with aggregation size of 10~20 nm is clearly observed by the photoinduced force microscopy. The desirable morphology of the PBDB-T:PN-Se active layer leads its all-PSC showing higher power conversion efficiency of 16.16%.

Date: 2021
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