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- Title
Polymer Solar Cells with 18.74% Efficiency: From Bulk Heterojunction to Interdigitated Bulk Heterojunction.
- Authors
Xu, Xiaopeng; Yu, Liyang; Meng, Huifeng; Dai, Liming; Yan, He; Li, Ruipeng; Peng, Qiang
- Abstract
The most popular approach to fabricating organic solar cells (OSCs) is solution processing a mixture of donor (D) and acceptor (A) materials into an active layer with a bulk heterojunction (BHJ) nanostructure. Herein, it is demonstrated that the interdigitated heterojunction (IHJ) is a more suitable nanostructure of the active layer for high‐performance OSCs whereas it is a long standing challenge to realize well‐defined IHJ structures. In this study, a facile and versatile sequential solution processing method is developed to produce an IHJ nanostructure with power conversion efficiency reaching 18.74% (18.10% for BHJ the counterpart) by fabricating a donor film with nanopores created by a wax additive, sequentially casting the acceptor on top of infiltrating the nanopores. Compared to the BHJ, the IHJ structure with an interpillar distance within the exciton diffusion length can afford a large bulk D/A interface for efficient exciton dissociation with a minimized charge recombination while free electrons and holes can transport to the respective electrodes through more straightforward pathways, thus enhance performance. Furthermore, the D or A phase in the IHJ device contacts with only one electrode, which can prevent shunting between the anode and cathode and facilitate the industrial mass production of OSCs.
- Subjects
SOLAR cell efficiency; PHOTOVOLTAIC power systems; HETEROJUNCTIONS; WAXES; SOLAR cells; MASS production; POLYMERS
- Publication
Advanced Functional Materials, 2022, Vol 32, Issue 4, p1
- ISSN
1616-301X
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1002/adfm.202108797