Issue 4, 2020

Novel cost-effective acceptor:P3HT based organic solar cells exhibiting the highest ever reported industrial readiness factor

Abstract

Solution-based organic solar cells (OSCs) offer great potential prospects within low-cost electricity production. High-performance materials are traditionally low bandgap polymers requiring a multitude of synthetic steps, limiting the scalability of the materials. A very scalable polymer is poly(3-hexylthiophene) (P3HT) which has recently reached a power conversion efficiency (PCE) of 6.4% with a non-fullerene acceptor (NFA) O-IDTBR, herein we present four novel simplified NFA analogues to O-IDTBR for reducing the synthetic complexity. The best performing material combination reached an average efficiency of 5.39%, which led to an industrial readiness factor (i-FOM) of 0.26 which is more than a 30% increase compared to that for P3HT:O-IDTBR. Due to the promise of this material combination, upscaling to large area/ITO-free slot-die coating was conducted reaching an optimized PCE of 3.58%.

Graphical abstract: Novel cost-effective acceptor:P3HT based organic solar cells exhibiting the highest ever reported industrial readiness factor

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Article information

Article type
Paper
Submitted
25 Mar 2020
Accepted
01 Jun 2020
First published
02 Jun 2020
This article is Open Access
Creative Commons BY license

Mater. Adv., 2020,1, 658-665

Novel cost-effective acceptor:P3HT based organic solar cells exhibiting the highest ever reported industrial readiness factor

T. R. Andersen, A. T. Weyhe, Q. Tao, F. Zhao, R. Qin, S. Zhang, H. Chen and D. Yu, Mater. Adv., 2020, 1, 658 DOI: 10.1039/D0MA00133C

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