High-Performance Pseudoplanar Heterojunction Ternary Organic Solar Cells with Nonfullerene Alloyed Acceptor

The vast majority of ternary organic solar cells are obtained by simply fabricating bulk heterojunction (BHJ) active layers. Due to the inappropriate distribution of donors and acceptors in the vertical direction, a new method by fabricating pseudoplanar heterojunction (PPHJ) ternary organic solar cells is proposed to better modulate the morphology of active layer. The pseudoplanar heterojunction ternary organic solar cells (P-ternary) are fabricated by a sequential solution treatment technique, in which the donor and acceptor mixture blends are sequentially spin-coated. As a consequence, a higher power conversion efficiency (PCE) of 14.2% is achieved with a V-oc of 0.79 V, J(sc) of 25.6 mA cm(-2), and fill factor (FF) of 69.8% compared with the ternary BHJ system of 13.8%. At the same time, the alloyed acceptor is likely formed between two the acceptors through a series of in-depth explorations. This work suggests that nonfullerene alloyed acceptor may have great potential to realize effective P-ternary organic solar cells.