journal article·2023-10

High Miscibility‐Induced Reduction of Trap Density in All‐Polymer Solar Cells Using Hybrid Cyclohexyl‐Hexyl Side Chains

Fengbo Sun, Xunchang Wang, Ming Wan, Zhitian Liu, Yixuan Luo, Jiajia Ren, Xufan Zheng, Thomas Rath, Cong Xiao, Tianyu Hu, Gregor Trimmel, Renqiang Yang

Advanced Functional Materials· Volume 33· Issue 40
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Abstract

Abstract Reducing the trap density within organic solar cells is of vital importance to realize high power conversion efficiency (PCE); however, research focusing on this aspect is limited in all‐polymer solar cells (All‐PSCs). In this work, it is found that the trap density can be dramatically reduced by simultaneously obtaining high miscibility of donor and acceptor and ordered packing in blend films through substituting ethylhexyl with hybrid cyclohexyl‐hexyl side chains in the design of the polymer donor. D18‐ChCl with hybrid cyclohexyl‐hexyl chains has a slightly lower aggregation behavior relative to the D18‐Cl counterpart, but reveals synchronously higher miscibility and crystallinity in a blend with the acceptor PYF‐T‐o. Such a morphology evolution positively affects the electronic properties of the device—prolongs the carrier lifetime, facilitates exciton dissociation, and lowers the energy disorder. As a result, the All‐PSC devices based on D18‐ChCl exhibited a remarkable PCE of 17.1%, with a low trap density of 2.65 × 1015 cm−3, a low energy disorder of 47 meV as well as outstanding stability and mechanical durability. This result demonstrates that hybrid cyclohexyl‐hexyl alkyl engineering delicately improves miscibility, drives low trap density, and refines device performance, which brings vibrancy to the All‐PSC research field.
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OpenAlex topics: Organic Electronics and Photovoltaics · Perovskite Materials and Applications · Conducting polymers and applications

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Affiliations

Key Laboratory of Optoelectronic Chemical Materials and Devices (Ministry of Education) School of Optoelectronic Materials and Technology Jianghan University Wuhan 430056 China

Hubei Engineering Technology Research Center of Optoelectronic and New Energy Materials Hubei Key Laboratory of Plasma Chemistry and Advanced Materials School of Materials Science and Engineering Wuhan Institute of Technology Wuhan 430205 China

Institute for Chemistry and Technology of Materials (ICTM) NAWI Graz Graz University of Technology Stremayrgasse 9 Graz 8010 Austria

Funding

National Natural Science Foundation of China

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