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Gasparini, Nicola
Salvador, Michael
Strohm, Sebastian
Heumueller, Thomas
Levchuk, Ievgen
Wadsworth, Andrew

Bannock, James H.
de Mello, John C.
Egelhaaf, Hans-Joachim
Baran, Derya

McCulloch, Iain

Brabec, Christoph J.

KAUST Department
Chemical Science ProgramKAUST Solar Center (KSC)
Material Science and Engineering Program
Physical Science and Engineering (PSE) Division
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2017-07-03Online Publication Date
2017-07-03Print Publication Date
2017-10Permanent link to this record
http://hdl.handle.net/10754/627078
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Organic solar cells that are free of burn-in, the commonly observed rapid performance loss under light, are presented. The solar cells are based on poly(3-hexylthiophene) (P3HT) with varying molecular weights and a nonfullerene acceptor (rhodanine-benzothiadiazole-coupled indacenodithiophene, IDTBR) and are fabricated in air. P3HT:IDTBR solar cells light-soaked over the course of 2000 h lose about 5% of power conversion efficiency (PCE), in stark contrast to [6,6]-Phenyl C61 butyric acid methyl ester (PCBM)-based solar cells whose PCE shows a burn-in that extends over several hundreds of hours and levels off at a loss of ≈34%. Replacing PCBM with IDTBR prevents short-circuit current losses due to fullerene dimerization and inhibits disorder-induced open-circuit voltage losses, indicating a very robust device operation that is insensitive to defect states. Small losses in fill factor over time are proposed to originate from polymer or interface defects. Finally, the combination of enhanced efficiency and stability in P3HT:IDTBR increases the lifetime energy yield by more than a factor of 10 when compared with the same type of devices using a fullerene-based acceptor instead.Citation
Gasparini N, Salvador M, Strohm S, Heumueller T, Levchuk I, et al. (2017) Burn-in Free Nonfullerene-Based Organic Solar Cells. Advanced Energy Materials 7: 1700770. Available: http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/aenm.201700770.Sponsors
N.G. and M.S. contributed equally to this work. The authors gratefully acknowledge the support of the Cluster of Excellence “Engineering of Advanced Materials” at the University of Erlangen–Nuremberg, which is funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG) within the framework of its “Excellence Initiative,” Synthetic Carbon Allotropes (SFB953) and Solar Technologies go Hybrid (SolTech). M.S. acknowledges primary support from a fellowship by the Portuguese Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia (SFRH/BPD/71816/2010). The authors wish to thank Dr. Siva Krishnadasan (Department of Chemistry, Imperial College, London) for assistance in the preparation of P3HT and Dr. Florian Machui (ZAE Bayern) for fruitful discussions for device preparation.Publisher
WileyJournal
Advanced Energy MaterialsAdditional Links
http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/aenm.201700770/fullae974a485f413a2113503eed53cd6c53
10.1002/aenm.201700770