With performance improvements,organic photovoltaics(OPVs)are an increasingly competitive technology for renewable energy.However,most high-performance OPVs are small-area devices processed from toxic halogenated solve...With performance improvements,organic photovoltaics(OPVs)are an increasingly competitive technology for renewable energy.However,most high-performance OPVs are small-area devices processed from toxic halogenated solvents via spin-coating,posing a challenge for mass production.We study a low-cost polymer donor(PTQ10)and a nonfullerene acceptor(DTY6)in a halogen-free solvent using industrially relevant blade coating.The non-inverted architecture performed best,achieving 12%efficiency,with the blade-coating deposition surpassing spin-coating.Active layers processed from the two coating techniques exhibited similar exciton quenching,likely due to the same measured nanodomain size and purity.However,blade-coated devices exhibited a higher charge carrier lifetime correlated with increased acceptor pi-stacking despite decreased donor pi-stacking.This suggests that optimizing crystallinity in bladecoated devices could result in even higher performance.Additionally,high performance in upscaled blade-coated devices(1 cm2)processed in air with a green solvent demonstrated the industrial potential of this system.展开更多
基金the US National Science Foundation(NSF),Division of Materials Research,Electronic and Photonic Materials Program under grant#2247711support from the Bio Voltaico project n.A0613-2023-078175 of the POR FESR 2021/2027 Riposizionamento Competitivo RSI-Economia del Mare,Green Economy e Agrifood initiative,and Integrated Terrestrial And Non-Terrestrial Networks(ITANTN)project under the Research and innovation on future Telecommunications systems and networks,to make Italy more smart(RESTART)initiative of the PNRRsupported by the NSF Division of Physics Research Experience for Undergraduates under grant#2349426。
文摘With performance improvements,organic photovoltaics(OPVs)are an increasingly competitive technology for renewable energy.However,most high-performance OPVs are small-area devices processed from toxic halogenated solvents via spin-coating,posing a challenge for mass production.We study a low-cost polymer donor(PTQ10)and a nonfullerene acceptor(DTY6)in a halogen-free solvent using industrially relevant blade coating.The non-inverted architecture performed best,achieving 12%efficiency,with the blade-coating deposition surpassing spin-coating.Active layers processed from the two coating techniques exhibited similar exciton quenching,likely due to the same measured nanodomain size and purity.However,blade-coated devices exhibited a higher charge carrier lifetime correlated with increased acceptor pi-stacking despite decreased donor pi-stacking.This suggests that optimizing crystallinity in bladecoated devices could result in even higher performance.Additionally,high performance in upscaled blade-coated devices(1 cm2)processed in air with a green solvent demonstrated the industrial potential of this system.
