TY - JOUR
T1 - High Efficiency Inverted Organic Solar Cells with a Neutral Fulleropyrrolidine Electron Collecting Interlayer
AU - Xu, Weidong
AU - Yan, Congfei
AU - Kan, Zhipeng
AU - Wang, Yang
AU - Lai, Wen-Yong
AU - Huang, Wei
N1 - KAUST Repository Item: Exported on 2020-10-01
Acknowledgements: We acknowledge financial support of the National Key Basic Research Program of China (973
Program, 2014CB648300), the National Natural Science Foundation of China (21422402, 20904024,
51173081, 61136003), the Natural Science Foundation of Jiangsu Province (BK20140060,
BK20130037, BM2012010), Program for Jiangsu Specially-Appointed Professors (RK030STP15001),
Program for New Century Excellent Talents in University (NCET-13-0872), Specialized Research
Fund for the Doctoral Program of Higher Education (20133223110008, and 20113223110005), the
Synergetic Innovation Center for Organic Electronics and Information Displays, the Priority Academic
Program Development of Jiangsu Higher Education Institutions (PAPD), the NUPT "1311 Project", the
Six Talent Plan (2012XCL035), the 333 Project (BRA2015374) and the Qing Lan Project of Jiangsu
Province.
PY - 2016/5/26
Y1 - 2016/5/26
N2 - A novel fulleropyrrolidine derivative, named as FPNOH, was designed, synthesized and utilized as an efficient electron-collecting (EC) layer for inverted organic solar cells (i-OSCs). The grafted diethanolamino-polar moieties can not only trigger its function as an EC interlayer, but also induce orthogonal solubility that guarantees subsequent multi-layer processing without interfacial mixing. A higher power conversion efficiency (PCE) value of 8.34% was achieved for i-OSC devices with ITO/FPNOH EC electrode, compared to that of the sol-gel ZnO based reference devices with an optimized PCE value of 7.92%. High efficiency exceeding 7.7% was still achieved even for the devices with a relatively thick PFNOH film (16.9 nm). It is worthwhile to mention that this kind of material exhibits less thickness dependent performance, in contrast to widely utilized p-type conjugated polyelectrolytes (CPEs) as well as the non-conjugated polyelectrolytes (NCPEs). Further investigation on illuminating intensity dependent parameters revealed the role of FPNOH in reducing interfacial traps-induced recombination at ITO/active layer interface.
AB - A novel fulleropyrrolidine derivative, named as FPNOH, was designed, synthesized and utilized as an efficient electron-collecting (EC) layer for inverted organic solar cells (i-OSCs). The grafted diethanolamino-polar moieties can not only trigger its function as an EC interlayer, but also induce orthogonal solubility that guarantees subsequent multi-layer processing without interfacial mixing. A higher power conversion efficiency (PCE) value of 8.34% was achieved for i-OSC devices with ITO/FPNOH EC electrode, compared to that of the sol-gel ZnO based reference devices with an optimized PCE value of 7.92%. High efficiency exceeding 7.7% was still achieved even for the devices with a relatively thick PFNOH film (16.9 nm). It is worthwhile to mention that this kind of material exhibits less thickness dependent performance, in contrast to widely utilized p-type conjugated polyelectrolytes (CPEs) as well as the non-conjugated polyelectrolytes (NCPEs). Further investigation on illuminating intensity dependent parameters revealed the role of FPNOH in reducing interfacial traps-induced recombination at ITO/active layer interface.
UR - http://hdl.handle.net/10754/610608
UR - http://pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1021/acsami.6b03974
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=84973617977&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1021/acsami.6b03974
DO - 10.1021/acsami.6b03974
M3 - Article
C2 - 27197741
SN - 1944-8244
VL - 8
SP - 14293
EP - 14300
JO - ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces
JF - ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces
IS - 22
ER -