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Organic solar cells with near-unity charge generation yield

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ENERGY & ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE
卷 14, 期 12, 页码 6484-6493

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ROYAL SOC CHEMISTRY
DOI: 10.1039/d1ee01367j

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  1. Ser Cymru II Program through the European Regional Development Fund
  2. Welsh European Funding Office
  3. Swansea University strategic initiative in Sustainable Advanced Materials
  4. EPSRC Doctoral Training Partnership studentship
  5. Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC) [PGSD3-545694-2020]
  6. UKRI through the EPSRC Program Grant [EP/T028511/1]

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This study demonstrates that using organic semiconductor systems based on NFAs can achieve near-unity charge generation yield, leading to a significant reduction in bimolecular recombination and improved performance of thick junction organic solar cells.
The subtle link between photogenerated charge generation yield (CGY) and bimolecular recombination in organic semiconductor-based photovoltaics is relatively well established as a concept but has proven extremely challenging to demonstrate and probe especially under operational conditions. Received wisdom also teaches that charge generation in excitonic systems will always be lower than non-excitonic semiconductors such as GaAs - but this view is being challenged with the advent of organic semiconductor blends based upon non-fullerene acceptors (NFAs) with power conversion efficiencies exceeding 18%. Using a newly developed approach based upon temperature dependent ultra-sensitive external quantum efficiency measurements, we observe near unity CGY in several model NFA-based systems measured with unprecedented accuracy. We find that a relatively small increase in yield from 0.984 to 0.993 leads to a reduction in bimolecular recombination from 400 times to 1000 times relative to the Langevin limit. In turn, this dramatic reduction delivers the best thick junction performance to date in any binary organic solar cell - notably 16.2% at 300 nm. The combination of high efficiency and thick junction is the key for industrial fabrication of these devices via high-throughput deposition processing such as roll-to-roll, and thus central to a viable solar cell technology. These results also clearly reveal and elucidate the relationship between photo-generation and recombination in excitonic semiconductor photovoltaics thus providing an important bridge between basic device physics and practical cell engineering.

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