Investigation of Charge Carrier Behavior in High Performance Ternary Blend Polymer Solar Cells

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• 作者：Tack Ho Lee ; Mohammad Afsar Uddin ; Chengmei Zhong ; Seo-Jin Ko ; Bright Walker ; Taehyo Kim ; Yung Jin Yoon ; Song Yi Park ; Alan J. Heeger ; Han Young Woo and Jin Young Kim
• 刊名：Advanced Energy Materials
• 出版年：2016
• 出版时间：October 12, 2016
• 年：2016
• 卷：6
• 期：19
• 全文大小：1795K
• ISSN：1614-6840

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This study demonstrates high-performance, ternary-blend polymer solar cells by modifying a binary blend bulk heterojunction (PPDT2FBT:PC₇₁BM) with the addition of a ternary component, PPDT2CNBT. PPDT2CNBT is designed to have complementary absorption and deeper frontier energy levels compared to PPDT2FBT, while being based on the same polymeric backbone. A power conversion efficiency of 9.46% is achieved via improvements in both short-circuit current density (J_SC) and open-circuit voltage (V_OC). Interestingly, the V_OC increases with increasing the PPDT2CNBT content in ternary blends. In-depth studies using ultraviolet photoelectron spectroscopy and transient absorption spectroscopy indicate that the two polymers are not electronically homogeneous and function as discrete light harvesting species. The structural similarity between PPDT2CNBT and PPDT2FBT allows the merits of a ternary system to be fully utilized to enhance both J_SC and V_OC without detriment to fill-factor via minimized disruption of semi-crystalline morphology of binary PPDT2FBT:PC₇₁BM blend. Further, by careful analysis, charge carrier transport in this ternary blend is clearly verified to follow parallel-like behavior.