Single-junction organic solar cells with over 19% efficiency enabled by a refined double-fibril network morphology
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Supporting information
Accepted version
Author(s)
Type
Journal Article
Abstract
In organic photovoltaics, morphological control of donor and acceptor domains on the nanoscale is the key for enabling efficient exciton diffusion and dissociation, carrier transport and suppression of recombination losses. To realize this, here, we demonstrated a double-fibril network based on a ternary donor–acceptor morphology with multi-length scales constructed by combining ancillary conjugated polymer crystallizers and a non-fullerene acceptor filament assembly. Using this approach, we achieved an average power conversion efficiency of 19.3% (certified 19.2%). The success lies in the good match between the photoelectric parameters and the morphological characteristic lengths, which utilizes the excitons and free charges efficiently. This strategy leads to an enhanced exciton diffusion length and a reduced recombination rate, hence minimizing photon-to-electron losses in the ternary devices as compared to their binary counterparts. The double-fibril network morphology strategy minimizes losses and maximizes the power output, offering the possibility of 20% power conversion efficiencies in single-junction organic photovoltaics.
Date Issued
2022-05-05
Date Acceptance
2022-03-29
Citation
Nature Materials, 2022, 21
ISSN
1476-1122
Publisher
Nature Research
Journal / Book Title
Nature Materials
Volume
21
Copyright Statement
© 2022 Taylor & Francis. This is an Accepted Manuscript of an article published by Taylor & Francis in Nature Materials on 05/05/2022, available online: 10.1038/s41563-022-01244-y
Sponsor
Commission of the European Communities
Identifier
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Grant Number
742708
Subjects
Science & Technology
Physical Sciences
Technology
Chemistry, Physical
Materials Science, Multidisciplinary
Physics, Applied
Physics, Condensed Matter
Chemistry
Materials Science
Physics
X-RAY-SCATTERING
CHARGE SEPARATION
PERFORMANCE
GAP
RECOMBINATION
Publication Status
Published