High-performance all-polymer solar cells based on fluorinated naphthalene diimide acceptor polymers with fine-tuned crystallinity and enhanced dielectric constants
Artikel i vetenskaplig tidskrift, 2018

Growing interests have been devoted to the synthesis of polymer acceptors as alternatives to fullerene derivatives to realize high-performance and stable all-polymer solar cells (all-PSCs). So far, one of the key factors that limit the performance of all-PSCs is low photocurrent density (normally < 14 mA/cm 2 ). One potential solution is to improve the dielectric constants (ε r ) of polyme r :polymer blends, which tend to reduce the binding energy of excitons, thus boosting the exciton dissociation efficiencies. Nevertheless, the correlation between ε r and photovoltaic performance has been rarely investigated for all-PSCs. In this work, five fluorinated naphthalene diimide (NDI)-based acceptor polymers, with different content of fluorine were synthesized. The incorporation of fluorine increased the ε r of the acceptor polymers and blend films, which improved the charge generation and overall photocurrent of the all-PSCs. As a result, the PTB7-Th:PNDI-FT10 all-PSC attained a high power conversion efficiency (PCE) of 7.3% with a photocurrent density of 14.7 mA/cm 2 , which surpassed the values reported for the all-PSC based on the non-fluorinated acceptor PNDI-T10. Interestingly, similarly high photovoltaic performance was maintained regardless of a large variation of donor:acceptor ratios, which revealed the good morphological tolerance and the potential for robust production capability of all-PSCs.

Acceptor polymers

Dielectric constants

All-polymer solar cells

Organic photovoltaics

Binding energy

Författare

Zhaojun Li

Chalmers, Kemi och kemiteknik, Tillämpad kemi

Xiaofeng Xu

Chalmers, Kemi och kemiteknik, Tillämpad kemi

Junke Wang

Technische Universiteit Eindhoven

Baojun Lin

Xi'an Jiaotong University

W. Ma

Xi'an Jiaotong University

Yangjun Xia

Lanzhou Jiaotong University

Mats Andersson

Flinders University

R. A. J. Janssen

Technische Universiteit Eindhoven

Ergang Wang

Chalmers, Kemi och kemiteknik, Tillämpad kemi

Nano Energy

2211-2855 (ISSN)

Vol. 45 368-379

Ämneskategorier

Polymerkemi

Materialkemi

Annan kemi

DOI

10.1016/j.nanoen.2018.01.012

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