Towards efficient and stable organic solar cells: fixing the morphology ...

Towards efficient and stable organic solar cells: fixing the morphology problem in block copolymer active layers with synergistic strategies supported by interpretable machine learning Y. Cui, Q. Fan, H. Feng, T. Li, D. Yu. Paraschuk, W. Ma and H. Yan, Energy Environ.

Organic Solar Cells: An Overview Focusing on Active Layer Morphology

Schematic diagram of the band structure of an organic solar cell having only one material in the active layer and different types of metal electrodes. Schematic diagram of the band structure of a ...

Optimized active layer morphology toward efficient and polymer …

In this manuscript, we demonstrate a two-step sequential deposition method for the formation of the optimum active layer morphology to achieve high-efficiency OSCs.

Efficient and stable organic solar cells enabled by ...

Degradation of kinetically bulk heterojunction film morphology in organic solar cells is a grand challenge for their practical application. ... L15 and S11 active layers under continuous heating ...

Organic Solar Cells: An Overview Focusing on Active Layer Morphology

Solar cells constructed of organic materials are becoming increasingly efficient due to the discovery of the bulk heterojunction concept. ... {Benanti2006OrganicSC, title={Organic Solar Cells: An Overview Focusing on Active Layer Morphology}, author={Travis L. Benanti and Dhandapani Venkataraman}, journal={Photosynthesis Research}, year={2006 ...

Fine-Tuned Active Layer Morphology for Bulk Heterojunction …

Active layer morphology is of vital importance for the photovoltaic performance of organic solar cells (OSCs). As fullerene derivatives and nonfullerene acceptors are highly complementary in many aspects, fullerene derivatives as a third component in nonfullerene OSCs could tune the blend morphology and improve the power conversion efficiency (PCE). Relative …

18.01% Efficiency organic solar cell and 2.53% light utilization ...

Optimizing the photoactive layer morphology is a simple, promising way to improve the power conversion efficiencies (PCEs) of organic solar cells (OSCs). Here, we compared different post-processing treatments on PM6:Y6 blend films and relevant effects on device performances, including as-cast, thermal annealing and solvent annealing. This solvent …

Morphology and Performance of Polymer Solar Cell Characterized by …

The morphology of active layers in the bulk heterojunction (BHJ) solar cells is critical to the performance of organic photovoltaics (OPV). Currently, there is limited information for the ...

Optimization of thickness and morphology of active layer for high ...

A two-dimensional model accounting for the effect of both the morphology of active layer and the layer configuration of multilayer-structured device on the device performance, is developed to optimize the device parameter for high performance of the bulk-heterojunction organic solar cells.

Efficient and stable organic solar cells enabled by ...

Degradation of kinetically bulk heterojunction film morphology in organic solar cells is a grand challenge for their practical application. Here, the authors design and …

Highly Efficient Nonfullerene Organic Solar Cells: Morphology …

Moreover, the introduction of the solid additives is a promising strategy to avoid the morphology degradation arising from the solvent additive-induced photooxidation, and stabilize the nanoscale morphology of BHJ active layers by enhancing the intermolecular interactions between additives and host materials ; 2) The characterization of the ...

Efficient regulation of active layer morphology and interfacial …

Active layer morphology and interfacial charge-transfer (CT) properties in organic solar cells (OSCs) greatly affect device performance but are difficult to control. Here, a porphyrin derivative meso- tetrakis(3,5-bis(trifluoromethyl)phenyl)porphyrin (TBTPP) is applied as additive in OSCs to tune the morphology and interfacial CT process of ...

The Active Layer Morphology of Organic Solar Cells Probed with …

The Active Layer Morphology of Organic Solar Cells Probed with Grazing Incidence Scattering Techniques. Peter Müller-Buschbaum, Corresponding Author. Peter Müller-Buschbaum. Technische Universität München, Physik-Department, Lehrstuhl für Funktionelle Materialien, James-Franck-Str. 1, 85748 Garching, Germany ... all relevant length scales ...

Uncovering the out-of-plane nanomorphology of organic ...

The bulk morphology of the active layer of organic solar cells (OSCs) is known to be crucial to the device performance. The thin film device structure breaks the symmetry into …

Meniscus‐Assisted Coating with Optimized Active‐Layer Morphology …

Morphology control is the key to engineering highly efficient solution-processed solar cells. Focusing on the most promising application-oriented photovoltaic all-polymer solar cells (all-PSCs), herein a facile and effective meniscus-assisted-coating (MAC) strategy is reported for preparing high-quality blend films with enhanced crystallinity and an …

Morphology optimization of photoactive layers in …

In this perspective, we summarize the commonly used strategies for the morphology optimization of the BHJ active layers, including solvent additive, solid additive, thermal annealing, and solvent vapor annealing, aiming …

The Active Layer Morphology of Organic Solar Cells …

Grazing incidence X-ray scattering (GIXS) provides unique insights into the morphology of active materials and thin film layers used in organic photovoltaic devices. With grazing incidence wide angle X-ray …

Organic solar cells: An overview focusing on active layer …

organic solar cell having only one material in the active layer and different types of metal electrodes. Figure 3. Schematic diagram of the band structure of a het-erojunction organic solar cell. The active layer in this type of device contains a donor and an acceptor. Also, here the electrodes are short-circuited, which equalizes their work ...

Optimized active layer morphology via side-chain atomic …

The device performance of all-polymer solar cells can be improved via optimizing phase separation morphology through side-chain atomic substituents. ... Optimized active layer morphology via side-chain atomic substituents to achieve efficient and stable all-polymer solar cells @article{Pang2021OptimizedAL, title={Optimized active layer ...

Achieving 18.92% efficiency of non-fullerene organic solar cells …

Active layer morphology optimization is a widely employed and effective method to enhance the photovoltaic performance of organic solar cells. In this study,D18:L8-BO bulk heterojunction organic solar cells were prepared, and chloroform was utilized as the primary solvent and halogen-free toluene was used as the secondary solvent to optimize ...

Volatile Additive Assists Binary Layer‐by‐Layer Solution …

2 · Layer-by-layer (LbL) solution processing is an efficient method to realize high performance organic solar cells (OSCs). One of the drawbacks of the LbL-processed active layer is the large difference in the crystallinity of the donor and acceptor, which will lead to imbalance charge transfer and result in unfavorable charge recombination.

Optimized active layer morphology toward efficient and …

ARTICLE Optimized active layer morphology toward efficient and polymer batch insensitive organic solar cells Kangkang Weng1, Linglong Ye1,2, Lei Zhu 3, Jinqiu Xu3, Jiajia Zhou 1, Xiang Feng4 ...

Optimization of active layer morphology by small-molecule donor …

Molecular innovation is highly important to achieve highly efficient small-molecule organic solar cells (SMOSCs). Herein, we report two small-molecule donors, namely, B3T-T and B3T-P, which differ only in their conjugated side chains: the former with a thienyl group and the latter with a phenyl unit rprisingly, both small-molecule donors show distinct electron density distribution …

Using an external electric field to tune active layer …

The nanoscale morphology of the photoactive layer notably impacts the performance of organic solar cells (OSCs). Conventional methods to tune the morphology are typically chemical approaches that adjust the …

Layer‐by‐layered organic solar cells: Morphology optimizing strategies ...

[1-5] The structure of OSCs has undergone the evolution from single-layer Schottky solar cells, double-layer planar heterojunction (PHJ) solar cells to representative bulk heterojunction (BHJ) solar cells. Initially, the active layer of OSCs was a single layer of organic material sandwiched between two electrodes, delivering extremely low power ...

Achieving Organic Solar Cells with an Efficiency of 18.80% by …

The efficiency of organic solar cells (OSCs) is primarily limited by their significant nonradiative energy loss and unfavorable active layer morphology. Achieving high-efficiency OSCs by suppressing nonradiative energy loss and tuning the active layer morphology remains a challenging task.

Improving Active Layer Morphology of All

two solutions were blended and slightly shaken several minutes before spin-coating. The active layer solutions with different preparing methods were spin-coated on the PEDOT:PSS substrates at spin-rates of 800–1000 rpm to give an active layer thickness of ca. 90 nm. The active layers were annealed at 80 °C for 10 min.

Rational control of sequential morphology evolution …

This work demonstrates an effective strategy to optimize the active layer for sequential morphology evolution and vertical distribution. Combining layer-by-layer deposition and solid additive methoxy-substituted …

Active Layer Morphology Engineering of All-polymer Solar Cells …

In all-polymer solar cells (APSCs), number-average molecular weights (M n s) of polymer donors and polymer acceptors play an important role in active layer morphology and photovoltaic performance this work, based on a series of APSCs with power conversion efficiency of approaching 10%, we study the effect of M n s of both polymer donor and polymer …

Optimized active layer morphology toward efficient and polymer …

Introduction. Over the past few decades, bulk-heterojunction (BHJ) organic solar cells (OSCs) have attracted tremendous attention due to their intrinsic advantages of lightweight, low cost, and the fabrication of flexible and large-scale devices via solution processing 1 – 13.Achieving an ideal BHJ morphology that can balance exciton dissociation and charge …

Phosphonate-Functionalized Donor Polymer as an ...

A novel polymer is developed and used as underlying interlayer to improve donor polymer/acceptor material blend morphology of active layer in polymer solar cells (PSCs). The polymer poly{N-9-[1,17-bis(diethylphosphonate)heptadecanyl]-2,7-carbazole-alt-5,5-(4,7-di-2-thienyl-2,1,3-benzothiadiazole)} (PCDTBT-Pho) is designed by attaching polar phosphonate …

Ternary Organic Solar Cells with Binary Additives Finely …

Solvent additive can be used to regulate active layer morphology and improve photovoltaic performance of organic solar cells (OSCs). Herein, the PM6:Y6:PC 71 BM ternary bulk heterojunction OSCs are prepared by introducing 1,8-diiodooctane (DIO) and 1-chloronaphthalene (CN) as binary additives. On the basis of optimizing the photovoltaic performance with CN …

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