Journal
ADVANCED ENERGY MATERIALS
Volume 6, Issue 4, Pages -Publisher
WILEY-V C H VERLAG GMBH
DOI: 10.1002/aenm.201501493
Keywords
energy conversion; interface materials; metal oxides; polymer solar cells; stability
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Funding
- National Natural Science Foundation of China [61325026, 51173186, 51203158]
- Natural Science Foundation of Fujian Province [2014J01216]
- National Basic Research 973 Program [2011CB935904]
- CAS/SAFEA International Partnership Program for Creative Research Teams
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Currently, one main challenge in organic solar cells (OSCs) is to achieve both good stability and high power conversion efficiencies (PCEs). Here, highly efficient and long-term stable inverted OSCs are fabricated by combining controllable ZnMgO (ZMO) cathode interfacial materials with a polymer:fullerene bulk-heterojunction. The resulting devices based on the nanocolloid/nanoridge ZMO electron-transporting layers (ETLs) show greatly enhanced performance compared to that of the conventional devices or control devices without ZMO or with ZnO ETLs. The ZMO-based OSCs maintain 84%-93% of their original PCEs over 1-year storage under ambient conditions. An initial PCE of 9.39% is achieved for the best device, and it still retains a high PCE of 8.06% after 1-year storage, which represents a record high value for long-term stable OSCs. The excellent performance is attributed to the enhanced electron transportation/collection, reduced interfacial energy losses, and improved stability of the nanocolloid ZMO ETL. These findings provide a promising way to develop OSCs with high efficiencies and long device lifetime towards practical applications.
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