Understanding the Role of Triplet-Triplet Annihilation in Non-Fullerene Acceptor Organic Solar CellsShow others and affiliations
2023 (English)In: Advanced Energy Materials, ISSN 1614-6832, E-ISSN 1614-6840, Vol. 13, no 36, article id 2301357Article in journal (Refereed) Published
Abstract [en]
Non-fullerene acceptors (NFAs) have enabled power conversion efficiencies exceeding 19% in organic solar cells (OSCs). However, the open-circuit voltage of OSCs remains low relative to their optical gap due to excessive non-radiative recombination, and this now limits performance. Here, an important aspect of OSC design is considered, namely management of the triplet exciton population formed after non-geminate charge recombination. By comparing the blends PM6:Y11 and PM6:Y6, it is shown that the greater crystallinity of the NFA domains in PM6:Y11 leads to a higher rate of triplet-triplet annihilation (TTA). This is attributed to the four times larger ground state dipole moment of Y11 versus Y6, which improves the long range NFA out-of-plane ordering. Since TTA converts a fraction of the non-emissive triplet states into bright singlet states, it has the potential to reduce non-radiative voltage losses. Through a kinetic analysis of the recombination processes under 1-Sun illumination, a framework is provided for determining the conditions under which TTA may improve OSC performance. If these could be satisfied, TTA has the potential to reduce non-radiative voltage losses by up to several tens of millivolts.
Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
WILEY-V C H VERLAG GMBH , 2023. Vol. 13, no 36, article id 2301357
Keywords [en]
non-radiative voltage losses; organic solar cells; photoluminescence-detected magnetic resonance; transient absorption; triplet excitons; triplet-triplet annihilation
National Category
Atom and Molecular Physics and Optics
Identifiers
URN: urn:nbn:se:liu:diva-197514DOI: 10.1002/aenm.202301357ISI: 001044778000001OAI: oai:DiVA.org:liu-197514DiVA, id: diva2:1794999
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Funding Agencies|Leverhulme Trust [ECF-2022-445]; UK Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) Application Targeted and Integrated Photovoltaics (ATIP) project [EP/T028513/1]; UK EPSRC [EP/L016702/1]; EPSRC [EP/W017091/1]; National Natural Science Foundation of China [521253, 22005347]; Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG, German Research Foundation) within the Research Training School "Molecular biradicals: Structure, properties and reactivity" [GRK2112]; Bavarian Ministry of the Environment and Consumer Protection, the Bavarian Network "Solar Technologies Go Hybrid"; China Scholarship Council (CSC); Research Grant Council of Hong Kong [14303519]
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