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SCIENCE CHINA-CHEMISTRY
Volume 64, Issue 3, Pages 408-412Publisher
SCIENCE PRESS
DOI: 10.1007/s11426-020-9935-2
Keywords
all-polymer solar cells; molecular weight; morphology; device performance
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- Ministry of Science and Technology of China [2019YFA0705900]
- National Natural Science Foundation of China [21875072]
- Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities (South China University of Technology) [D2190310]
- Guangdong Innovative and Entrepreneurial Research Team Program [2019ZT08L075]
- Open Funds of State Key Laboratory of Fine Chemicals [KF1901]
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By tuning the molecular weights of the polymer donor, researchers achieved a record-high power conversion efficiency in all-polymer solar cells. The combination of polymer donors with a newly reported polymer acceptor resulted in unprecedented high PCE and fill factor values. Detailed morphology investigation revealed the importance of proper phase separation in achieving superior device performance in all-polymer solar cells.
We report all-polymer solar cells (All-PSCs) with record-high power conversion efficiency (PCE) through tuning the molecular weights of the polymer donor (PBDB-T) to form optimal active layer morphology. By combining the polymer donors with a newly reported polymer acceptor (PJ1), an unprecedented high PCE of 15.4% and fill factor over 75% were achieved for the All-PSCs with the medium molecular weight polymer donor (PBDB-T-MW), which is the highest value for All-PSCs reported so far. Detailed morphology investigation revealed that the proper phase separation in the PBDB-T-MW:PJ1 blend should account for the superior device performance as PBDB-T-MW exhibits appropriate miscibility with the polymer acceptor PJ1. These results demonstrated that the device performance of All-PSCs could be fully comparable to that of small molecular acceptor-based PSCs. The formation of optimized morphology via precise control of molecular weights of polymer donors and acceptors is crucial to achieve this goal.
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