Journal
ACS APPLIED MATERIALS & INTERFACES
Volume 10, Issue 2, Pages 1939-1947Publisher
AMER CHEMICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1021/acsami.7b17076
Keywords
alkali salt; highly transparent; thickness-insensitive; electron-transport layer; polymer solar
Funding
- Natural Science Foundation of China [21634004, 21490573, 91633301]
- Ministry of Science and Technology [2014CB643501]
- Science and Technology Program of Guangzhou, China [201707020019, 201607020010]
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Solution-processable highly transparent and thickness-insensitive hybrid electron-transport layer (ETL) with enhanced electron-extraction and electron-transport properties for high-performance polymer solar cell was reported. With the incorporation of Cs2CO3 into the poly[(9,9-bis(6'-(N,N-diethyl)-N-ethylammonium)-hexyl)-2,7-fluorene)-alt-1,4-diphenylsulfide]dibromide (PF6NPSBr) ETL, the power conversion efficiency (PCE) of resulted polymer solar cells (PSCs) was significantly enhanced due to the favorable interfacial contact, energy-level alignment, and thus facile electron transport in the PSC device. These organic-inorganic hybrid ETLs also exhibited high transparency and high electron mobility. All of these combined properties ensured us to design novel thickness-insensitive ETLs that avoid the parasitic absorption of ETL itself simultaneously. With the conventional device structure with poly{4,8-bis[5-(2-ethylhexyl)thiophen-2-yl]benzo[1,2-b:4,5-b']dithiophene-2,6-diyl-alt-3-fluoro-2-[(2-ethylhexyl) carb onyl]thieno[3,4-b]thiophene-4,6-diy1} (PTB7-Th) as a donor and [6,6]-phenyl-C71-butyric acid methyl ester (PC71BM) as an acceptor, devices with hybrid ETLs exhibited PCE of 8.30-9.45% within a wide range of ETL thickness. A notable PCE of 10.78% was achieved with the thick active layer poly(2,5-thiophene-alt-5,5'-(5,10-bis(4-(2-octyldodecy1)-thiophen-2-yOnaphtho[1,2-c:5,6-c']bis([1,2,5]thiadiazole)) (PTNT812):Pe(71)BM. These findings indicated that doping alkali salt into the organic interfacial materials can be a promising strategy to design highly efficient and thickness-insensitive ETL, which may be suitable for large-area PSC modules device fabrication with roll-to-roll printing technique.
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