Thickness-Insensitive Organic Solar Cells with 19.61% Efficiency Processed from All-Hydrocarbon Solvent and Solid AdditiveShow others and affiliations
2025 (English)In: Advanced Functional Materials, ISSN 1616-301X, E-ISSN 1616-3028, Vol. 35, no 47, article id 2503096Article in journal (Refereed) Published
Abstract [en]
Organic solar cells (OSCs) have achieved power conversion efficiencies (PCEs) of >20%, although almost all top-performance devices having a thin active layer of approximate to 100 nm and are being processed with environmentally harmful halogenated solvents/additives. However, attempting to fabricate OSCs with thick active layers from non-halogenated solvents/additives normally leads to dramatically decreased PCEs, seriously restricting their industrialization. To overcome the above shortcomings, it is developed an all-hydrocarbon-based system combined with toluene solvent and fluorene (DBP) solid additive to process active layer (PM6:L8-BO) thickness-insensitive efficient OSCs. Owing to DBP having good planarity, excellent volatility, and stronger interaction with L8-BO, its treated active layers exhibit ordered molecular packing, suitable phase separation, and enhanced charge transport, resulting in a superior PCE of 18.64%. Notably, using D18:BTP-eC9 as the active layer, the OSCs achieve a record-high PCE of 19.61% among the all-hydrocarbon-based system processed devices. Due to the increased crystallinity and optimized hierarchical morphology, the above OSCs show high thickness-tolerance and provide an excellent PCE of approximate to 18% with a 300 nm active layer, ranking among the highest PCEs for the all-hydrocarbon-based system processed thick-film devices. This work develop an all-hydrocarbon-based system to process active layers in an environmentally friendly way for thickness-insensitive OSCs, with record-high PCEs, toward future industrial production.
Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
WILEY-V C H VERLAG GMBH , 2025. Vol. 35, no 47, article id 2503096
Keywords [en]
all-hydrocarbon solvent and solid additive; organic solar cells; power conversion efficiency; stability; thick-film devices
National Category
Energy Engineering
Identifiers
URN: urn:nbn:se:liu:diva-215377DOI: 10.1002/adfm.202503096ISI: 001508311000001Scopus ID: 2-s2.0-105007842435OAI: oai:DiVA.org:liu-215377DiVA, id: diva2:1975391
Note
Funding Agencies|National Natural Science Foundation of China; Scientific Research Project of the Education Department of Hunan Province [23B0167]; Postgraduate Scientific Research Innovation Project of Xiangtan University [XDCX2024Y218]; [52403251]; [22209131]
2025-06-242025-06-242026-02-03Bibliographically approved