Proceedings of International Conference on Hybrid and Organic Photovoltaics (HOPV23)
DOI: https://doi.org/10.29363/nanoge.hopv.2023.111
Publication date: 30th March 2023
Organic solar cells (OSCs) potentially can offer low cost, large area, flexible, light-weight, clean, and quiet alternative energy sources for indoor and outdoor applications. OSCs using non-fullerene acceptors (NFAs) have garnered a lot of attention during the past few years and shown dramatic increases in the power conversion efficiency (PCE). PCEs higher than 19% for single-junction systems have been achieved, but the device lifetime is still too short for practical applications. Thus, understanding the degradation mechanisms in an OSC is crucial to improve its long-term stability. In this talk, I will discuss the degradation mechanisms in organic solar cells based on PM6:Y6. We investigated different device structures on the device lifetime. A combination of characterization methods such as solid state Nuclear Magnetic Resonance (NMR), resonant soft X-ray scattering (RSoXS), AFM, X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy (XPS), Electron paramagnetic resonance (EPR) spectroscopy, and capacitance spectroscopy are employed to gain insight into the device degradation.