Hexanary blends: a strategy towards thermally stable organic photovoltaicsShow others and affiliations
2023 (English)In: Nature Communications, E-ISSN 2041-1723, Vol. 14, no 1, article id 4608Article in journal (Refereed) Published
Abstract [en]
Non-fullerene based organic solar cells display a high initial power conversion efficiency but continue to suffer from poor thermal stability, especially in case of devices with thick active layers. Mixing of five structurally similar acceptors with similar electron affinities, and blending with a donor polymer is explored, yielding devices with a power conversion efficiency of up to 17.6%. The hexanary device performance is unaffected by thermal annealing of the bulk-heterojunction active layer for at least 23 days at 130 °C in the dark and an inert atmosphere. Moreover, hexanary blends offer a high degree of thermal stability for an active layer thickness of up to 390 nm, which is advantageous for high-throughput processing of organic solar cells. Here, a generic strategy based on multi-component acceptor mixtures is presented that permits to considerably improve the thermal stability of non-fullerene based devices and thus paves the way for large-area organic solar cells.
Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
Nature Publishing Group, 2023. Vol. 14, no 1, article id 4608
National Category
Physical Chemistry
Research subject
Chemistry - Physical Chemistry
Identifiers
URN: urn:nbn:se:kau:diva-96340DOI: 10.1038/s41467-023-39830-6ISI: 001048667500004PubMedID: 37528112Scopus ID: 2-s2.0-85166099131OAI: oai:DiVA.org:kau-96340DiVA, id: diva2:1787194
Funder
Knut and Alice Wallenberg Foundation, 2016.00592023-08-112023-08-112023-09-15Bibliographically approved