Investigating the Trade-Off between Photovoltaics Parameters and Thermal Annealing in Non-Fullerene Acceptors Organic Solar Cells
Shahidul Alam a, Haya Aldosary a, Frédéric Laquai a
a King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST), KAUST Solar Center (KSC), Physical Sciences and Engineering Division (PSE), Material Science and Engineering Program (MSE), Thuwal 23955-6900, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
Materials for Sustainable Development Conference (MATSUS)
Proceedings of MATSUS23 & Sustainable Technology Forum València (STECH23) (MATSUS23)
#NewOPV - New concepts for stable non-fullerene based organic solar cells and their applications
VALÈNCIA, Spain, 2023 March 6th - 10th
Organizers: Vida Engmann, Morten Madsen and Pavel Troshin
Oral, Shahidul Alam, presentation 155
DOI: https://doi.org/10.29363/nanoge.matsus.2023.155
Publication date: 22nd December 2022

Lately, non-fullerene acceptors (NFA’s) have received increasing attention for use in polymer-based bulk-heterojunction organic solar cells, as improved photovoltaic performance compared to classical polymer-fullerene blends could be demonstrated. In this study, polymer solar cells based on high-efficiency donor polymers are used in combination with a number of different electron-accepting materials. Both donors and acceptors are either fluorinated and/or chlorinated (or, in more general terms, halogenation) and compared with the non-halogenated version. To see the influence of end-group fluorination of ITIC in a photovoltaic application, the well-known donor polymers PBDB-T (PCE12) and its fluorinated and chlorinated representative, PBDB-T-2F (PM6), PBDB-T-2Cl (PM7) were used to process bulk heterojunction solar cells. Different thermal annealing during device processing is investigated from their photovoltaics parameters. Charge generation and recombination mechanism upon annealing were investigated via several optoelectronic characterization methods. Especially, Time-Delayed Collection Field (TDCF) measurements demonstrate that field-dependent charge generation and bimolecular recombination processes affect the fill factor and, thus, the efficiency of devices.

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