Journal
JOURNAL OF MATERIALS CHEMISTRY C
Volume 8, Issue 34, Pages 11727-11734Publisher
ROYAL SOC CHEMISTRY
DOI: 10.1039/d0tc02582h
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- National Key Basic Research and Development Program of China - MOST [2018YFE0100600, 2019YFA0705900]
- National Natural Science Foundation of China [21774122, 51803207, 51703222, 51973209]
- BRICS project
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Using a ternary blend consisting of two donors/one acceptor or one donor/two acceptors is a potential strategy to increase the power conversion efficiency (PCE) of polymer solar cells (PSCs). Herein, ternary PSCs based on PBDB-T:IT-4F:O6T-4F blends have been investigated by employing narrow bandgap O6T-4F as a second acceptor. Our studies indicate that introduction of 20% O6T-4F in the acceptor moiety can increase the PCE from 9.5% for the binary PBDB-T:IT-4F (1 : 1) cell to 10.5% for the ternary PBDB-T:IT-4F:O6T-4F (1 : 0.8 : 0.2) cell. The enhancement is attributed to a compromise between the increased short-circuit current (J(SC)) and open-circuit voltage (V-OC) and the decreased fill factor (FF) with addition of the O6T-4F acceptor. It is shown that O6T-4F lowers the energy loss (E-loss) occurring in the binary PBDB-T:IT-4F (1 : 1) blend, leading to a higherV(OC)of the ternary PSCs with regard to the binary PBDB-T:IT-4F PSCs.E(loss)is decreased from 0.80 eV for the binary PBDB-T:IT-4F (1 : 1) blend to 0.61 eV for the ternary PBDB-T:IT-4F:O6T-4F (1 : 0.8 : 0.2) blend. At the same time, the addition of the O6T-4F acceptor reduces the aggregation of the PBDB-T donor in the ternary blends. Ultra-fast transient absorption demonstrates that the hole transfer and subsequent carrier recombination occur faster in the ternary blend than in the PBDB-T:IT-4F blend, which accounts for a slightly decreased FF in the ternary PSCs.
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