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Highly Efficient and Reproducible Nonfullerene Solar Cells from Hydrocarbon Solvents
Andrew Wadsworth,
Raja S. Ashraf,
Maged Abdelsamie,
Sebastian Pont,
Mark Little,
Maximilian Moser,
Zeinab Hamid,
Marios Neophytou,
Weimin Zhang,
Aram Amassian,
James Durrant,
Derya Baran,
Iain McCulloch
ACS Energy Letters, Volume: 2, Issue: 7, Pages: 1494 - 1500
Swansea University Author: James Durrant
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DOI (Published version): 10.1021/acsenergylett.7b00390
Abstract
With chlorinated solvents unlikely to be permitted for use in solution-processed organic solar cells in industry, there must be a focus on developing nonchlorinated solvent systems. Here we report high-efficiency devices utilizing a low-bandgap donor polymer (PffBT4T-2DT) and a nonfullerene acceptor...
| Published in: | ACS Energy Letters |
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| ISSN: | 2380-8195 2380-8195 |
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2017
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| URI: | https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa37057 |
| Abstract: |
With chlorinated solvents unlikely to be permitted for use in solution-processed organic solar cells in industry, there must be a focus on developing nonchlorinated solvent systems. Here we report high-efficiency devices utilizing a low-bandgap donor polymer (PffBT4T-2DT) and a nonfullerene acceptor (EH-IDTBR) from hydrocarbon solvents and without using additives. When mesitylene was used as the solvent, rather than chlorobenzene, an improved power conversion efficiency (11.1%) was achieved without the need for pre- or post-treatments. Despite altering the processing conditions to environmentally friendly solvents and room-temperature coating, grazing incident X-ray measurements confirmed that active layers processed from hydrocarbon solvents retained the robust nanomorphology obtained with hot-processed chlorinated solvents. The main advantages of hydrocarbon solvent-processed devices, besides the improved efficiencies, were the reproducibility and storage lifetime of devices. Mesitylene devices showed better reproducibility and shelf life up to 4000 h with PCE dropping by only 8% of its initial value. |
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| College: |
Faculty of Science and Engineering |
| Issue: |
7 |
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1494 |
| End Page: |
1500 |