Journal
JOURNAL OF MATERIALS CHEMISTRY A
Volume 5, Issue 33, Pages 17570-17579Publisher
ROYAL SOC CHEMISTRY
DOI: 10.1039/c7ta03505e
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Funding
- China Scholarship Council (CSC)
- Umweltfreundliche Hocheffiziente Organische Solarzellen (UOS)
- Cluster of Excellence Engineering of Advanced Materials
- Russian Science Foundation [14-13-01031]
- Ministry of Education and Science of the Russian Federation [14.587.21.0034 (RFMEFI58716X0034]
- Colombian Agency COLCIENCIAS
- ETI funding at FAU Erlangen-Nurnberg
- DFG [BR 4031/13-1, SFB 953]
- Bavarian Ministry of Economic Affairs and Media, Energy and Technology [IEK11]
- Aufbruch Bayern initiative of the state of Bavaria (EnCN and solar factory of the future)
- Bavarian Initiative Solar Technologies go Hybrid (SolTech)
- Cluster of Excellence Engineering of Advanced Materials (EAM) at FAU Erlangen-Nurnberg
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Organic photovoltaics is one of the most promising technologies for sustainable green energy supply. Because of their high electron affinity and superior electron-transporting ability, fullerene-based materials are deemed as very strong electron-accepting components in organic solar cells. However, the most widely used fullerene-based acceptors, such as phenyl-C61-butyric acid methyl ester, exhibit limited microstructural stability and unsatisfactory thermal stability owing to their insufficient compatibility with organic donors. Here, we in-depth investigate the carrier dynamics along with structural evolution and analyze the acceptor loadings in optimized bulk-heterojunction (BHJ) solar cells as a function of the polymer-fullerene miscibility. The polymer-fullerene miscibility has more influential effects than the crystallinity of single components on the optimized acceptor : donor ratio in polymer-fullerene solar cells. The findings demonstrated in this work suggest that the balance between the miscibility of BHJ composites and their optoelectronic properties has to be carefully considered for future development and optimization of OPV solar cells based on BHJ composites. Miscibility is proposed in addition to crystallinity as a further design criterion for long lived and efficient solar cells.
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