Fullerene-Free Polymer Solar Cells with over 11% Efficiency and Excellent Thermal Stability

Wenchao Zhao; Deping Qian; Shaoqing Zhang; Sunsun Li; Olle Inganäs; Feng Gao; Jianhui Hou

doi:10.1002/adma.201600281

Fullerene-Free Polymer Solar Cells with over 11% Efficiency and Excellent Thermal Stability

Adv Mater. 2016 Jun;28(23):4734-9. doi: 10.1002/adma.201600281. Epub 2016 Apr 9.

Authors

Wenchao Zhao¹, Deping Qian², Shaoqing Zhang¹, Sunsun Li¹, Olle Inganäs², Feng Gao², Jianhui Hou¹

Affiliations

¹ State Key Laboratory of Polymer Physics and Chemistry, Beijing National Laboratory for Molecular Sciences, Institute of Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, 100190, P. R. China.
² Biomolecular and Organic Electronics, IFM, Linköping University, Linköping, 58183, Sweden.

PMID: 27061511
DOI: 10.1002/adma.201600281

Abstract

A nonfullerene-based polymer solar cell (PSC) that significantly outperforms fullerene-based PSCs with respect to the power-conversion efficiency is demonstrated for the first time. An efficiency of >11%, which is among the top values in the PSC field, and excellent thermal stability is obtained using PBDB-T and ITIC as donor and acceptor, respectively.

Keywords: high efficiency; large-area device; nonfullerene acceptor; polymer solar cells; thermal stability.