期刊
ACS APPLIED MATERIALS & INTERFACES
卷 11, 期 11, 页码 10785-10793出版社
AMER CHEMICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1021/acsami.8b22337
关键词
polymer solar cells; push-coating; polymer semiconductors; sustainable fabrication; PCDTBT; low-cost photovoltaics; bulk heterojunction; semitransparent solar cells
资金
- Japan Society for the Promotion of Science [17K14549]
- Romanian Executive Agency for Higher Education, Research, Development and Innovation Funding under project ROFCC [25PCCDI/2018]
- Romanian Ministry of Research under project R3-PowerUP-ECSEL-JU POC 2014-2020 [1/1.1.3/31.01.2018]
- Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research [17K14549] Funding Source: KAKEN
Push-coating is a simple process that can be employed for extremely low-cost polymer electronic device production. Here, we demonstrate its application to the fabrication of poly(2,7-carbazole-alt-dithienylbenzothiadiazole) (PCDTBT):[6,6]-phenyl-C-71-butyric acid methyl ester (PC71BM) active layers processed in air, yielding similar photovoltaic performances as thermally annealed spin-coated thin films when used in inverted polymer solar cells (PSCs). During push-coating, the polydimethylsiloxane layer temporarily traps the deposition solvent, resulting in simultaneous film formation and solvent annealing effect. This removes the necessity for a postdeposition thermal annealing step which is required for spin-coated PSCs to produce high photovoltaic performances. Optimized PSC active layers are produced with a push-coating time of 5 min at room temperature with 20 times less hazardous solvent and 40 times less active material than spin-coating. Annealed spin-coated active layers and active layers push-coated for 5 min both produce average power conversion efficiencies (PCEs) of 5.77%, while those push-coated for a shorter time of 1 min yield a slightly lower value of 5.59%. We demonstrate that, despite differences in their donor:acceptor vertical concentration gradients, unencapsulated PCDTBT:PC71BM active layers push-coated for 1 min produce PSCs with similar operational stability and upscaling capacity as thermally annealed spin-coated ones. As fast device fabrication can be achieved with short-time push-coating, we further demonstrate the potential of this deposition technique by manufacturing push-coated PSC-based semitransparent photovoltaic devices with a PCE of 4.23%, relatively neutral colors and an average visible transparency of 40.2%. Our work thus confirms that push-coating is not limited to the widely employed poly(3-hexylthiophene-2,5-diyl) but can also be used with low band gap copolymers and opens the path to low-cost and eco-friendly, yet efficient and stable PSCs.
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