journal article·2025-02

A Halogen‐free and Universally Volatile Solid Additive Enables Binary Organic Solar Cells to Exceed 19% Efficiency

Chenyu Han, Bo Cheng, Qing Guo, Zhen Fu, Jiawei Qiao, Sixuan Cheng, Yumiao Huo, Xinxin Xia, Hao Wang, Yuang Fu, Xia Guo, Xinhui Lu, Xiaotao Hao, Yongfang Li, Maojie Zhang

Advanced Functional Materials· Volume 35· Issue 9
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Abstract

Abstract Additive processing is widely employed for regulating physical morphology to improve the performance of organic solar cells (OSCs). However, the dosage of commonly used solvent additives is problematic to control, leading to poor reproducibility of devices. Thus, this work innovatively introduces a low‐cost and commercialized material, dibenzoylmethane (DBM), as a volatile solid additive in OSCs based on PM6:Y6. DBM is well mixed with polymer donor and non‐fullerene acceptor, simultaneously facilitating the ordered molecular orientation and stacking of both the donor and acceptor, which leads to an improved double‐fibril network, thereby prolonging exciton diffusion length and suppressing charge carrier recombination. Ultimately, a champion power conversion efficiency (PCE) of 18.7% is achieved for DBM‐processed devices, which is the highest value reported in PM6:Y6‐based binary OSCs, and also achieved excellent thermal stability (T80 > 200 h, 85 °C) and storage stability (T80 > 5000 h). Moreover, the effect of DBM also exhibits decent universality in diverse blend systems, such as PM6:BTP‐eC9, PTQ10:m‐TEH, D18:N3, and D18:L8‐BO, and an impressive PCE of 19.4% is achieved. These findings demonstrate that DBM, as a low‐cost, halogen‐free solid additive with excellent universality, is promising for effectively improving device performances in future OSC applications.
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OpenAlex topics: Organic Electronics and Photovoltaics · Conducting polymers and applications · Perovskite Materials and Applications

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Affiliations

National Engineering Research Center for Colloidal Materials Key Laboratory of Special Functional Aggregated Materials (Shandong University) Ministry of Education School of Chemistry & Chemical Engineering Shandong University Jinan Shandong 250100 China

Suzhou Key Laboratory of Novel Semiconductor‐optoelectronics Materials and Devices College of Chemistry Suzhou Key Laboratory of Novel Semiconductor‐optoelectronics Materials and Devices College of Chemistry Chemical Engineering and Materials Science Soochow University Suzhou 215123 China

School of Physics State Key Laboratory of Crystal Materials Shandong University Jinan Shandong 250100 China

Department of Physics Chinese University of Hong Kong New Territories Hong Kong 999077 China

Funding

Taishan Scholar Project of Shandong Province · Natural Science Foundation of Shandong Province

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