Lessons learnt with doped polymer systems and applied to donor:non-fullerene acceptor photovoltaic blends
Natalie Stingelin a
a School of Materials Science and Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology, North Avenue, Atlanta, United States
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
Invited Speaker, Natalie Stingelin, presentation 197
DOI: https://doi.org/10.29363/nanoge.matsus.2023.197
Publication date: 22nd December 2022

We address here the long-standing quest to gain broadly applicable understanding of the structure formation of donor:acceptor blends that are used in organic solar cells, leading generally to a rich phase morphology where intermixed and neat phases of the donor and acceptor material co-exist. This is especially true for blends with non-fullerene acceptors because NFAs often display different polymorphs; moreover, their glassy states can be highly complex. Here we show that some donor polymer:non-fullerene acceptor blends comprise two different populations of glassy phases: a molecularly intermixed and an ITIC-rich one. This picture assists to understand the performance of some of these systems when used in solar cells; it also allows us to establish a tentative picture of the complex correlation of structure and electronic landscape for the understanding of organic photovoltaic cells. Our works furthermore highlights the challenges that are faced when using next generation materials, especially if long-term stability is sought.

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