Proceedings of International Conference on Hybrid and Organic Photovoltaics (HOPV24)
DOI: https://doi.org/10.29363/nanoge.hopv.2024.042
Publication date: 6th February 2024
Bulk heterojunction organic solar cells (BHJ 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 BHJ OSCs. We investigated the impact of different blend materials and device structures on the device stability. 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 mechanisms. We propose strategies to improve the device stability.
This work is supported by the US Office of Naval Research (Award No. N00014-21-1-2181) and EU H2020 (Grant No. 795091).