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Boosting the Performances of Semitransparent Organic Photovoltaics via Synergetic Near‐Infrared Light Management

Tao Xu, Baozhong Deng, Kaiwen Zheng, Hongyu Li, Zihan Wang, Yunbo Zhong, Chengxi Zhang, Gaëtan Lévêque, Bruno Grandidier, Renaud Bachelot, Mona Treguer‐Delapierre, Yabing Qi, Shenghao Wang

Advanced Materials· Volume 36· Issue 18
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Abstract

Abstract Semitransparent organic photovoltaics (ST‐OPVs) offer promising prospects for application in building‐integrated photovoltaic systems and greenhouses, but further improvement of their performance faces a delicate trade‐off between the two competing indexes of power conversion efficiency (PCE) and average visible transmittance (AVT). Herein, the authors take advantage of coupling plasmonics with the optical design of ST‐OPVs to enhance near‐infrared absorption and hence simultaneously improve efficiency and visible transparency to the maximum extent. By integrating core–bishell PdCu@Au@SiO2 nanotripods that act as optically isotropic Lambertian sources with near‐infrared‐customized localized surface plasmon resonance in an optimal ternary PM6:BTP‐eC9:L8‐BO‐based ST‐OPV, it is shown that their interplay with a multilayer optical coupling layer, consisting of ZnS(130 nm)/Na3AlF6(60 nm)/WO3(100 nm)/LaF3(50 nm) identified from high‐throughput optical screening, leads to a record‐high PCE of 16.14% (certified as 15.90%) along with an excellent AVT of 33.02%. The strong enhancement of the light utilization efficiency by ≈50% as compared to the counterpart device without optical engineering provides an encouraging and universal pathway for promoting breakthroughs in ST‐OPVs from meticulous optical design.
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NanomaterialsElectronic materials

OpenAlex topics: Organic Electronics and Photovoltaics · Nanowire Synthesis and Applications · solar cell performance optimization

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Affiliations

School of Microelectronics and Materials Genome Institute Shanghai University Shanghai 200444 China

School of Materials Science and Engineering Shanghai University Shanghai 200444 China

School of Science Jiangsu University of Science and Technology Zhenjiang 212100 China

Univ. Lille CNRS Centrale Lille Univ. Polytechnique Hauts‐de‐France Junia‐ISEN UMR 8520 – IEMN Lille 59000 France

Light nanomaterials nanotechnologies (L2n) CNRS ERL 7004 University of Technology of Troyes Troyes F‐10004 France

EEE School Nanyang Technological University CNRS IRL CINTRA 3288 Singapore

Univ. Bordeaux CNRS Bordeaux INP ICMCB UMR 5026 Pessac F‐33600 France

Energy Materials and Surface Sciences Unit (EMSSU) Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology Graduate University (OIST) 1919‐1 Tancha, Onna‐son Okinawa 904‐0495 Japan

Funding

National Natural Science Foundation of China · Program for Professor of Special Appointment (Eastern Scholar) at Shanghai Institutions of Higher Learning · Shanghai Rising-Star Program · Internationale Graduiertenschule in BioNanoTechnologie · Songshan Lake Materials Laboratory

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