High-performance Fullerene-free Polymer Solar Cells with Solution-processed Conjugated Polymers as Anode Interfacial Layer

Kai Zhang; Xiao-yu Liu; Bo-wei Xu; Yong Cui; Ming-liang Sun; Jian-hui Hou

doi:10.1007/s10118-017-1888-7

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High-performance Fullerene-free Polymer Solar Cells with Solution-processed Conjugated Polymers as Anode Interfacial Layer

Papers | Updated：2021-02-18

- High-performance Fullerene-free Polymer Solar Cells with Solution-processed Conjugated Polymers as Anode Interfacial Layer
- Chinese Journal of Polymer Science Vol. 35, Issue 2, Pages: 219-229(2017)
- Affiliations：
  
  a.Institute of Materials Science and Engineering, Ocean University of China, Qingdao 266100, China
  b.State Key Laboratory of Polymer Physics and Chemistry, Beijing National Laboratory for Molecular Sciences, Institute of Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100190, China
- Author bio：
  
  Bo-wei Xu (许博为), E-mail:xubowei2004@iccas.ac.cn
  Ming-liang Sun (孙明亮), E-mail:mlsun@ouc.edu.cn
  Jian-hui Hou (侯剑辉), E-mail:hjhzlz@iccas.ac.cn
- Funds：
- DOI：10.1007/s10118-017-1888-7
  CLC：
- Received：09 August 2016，
  
  Revised：2016-9-13，
  
  Accepted：14 September 2016，
  
  Published：2017-02
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Kai Zhang, Xiao-yu Liu, Bo-wei Xu, et al. High-performance Fullerene-free Polymer Solar Cells with Solution-processed Conjugated Polymers as Anode Interfacial Layer[J]. Chinese Journal of Polymer Science, 2017, 35(2): 219-229.
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Kai Zhang, Xiao-yu Liu, Bo-wei Xu, et al. High-performance Fullerene-free Polymer Solar Cells with Solution-processed Conjugated Polymers as Anode Interfacial Layer[J]. Chinese Journal of Polymer Science, 2017, 35(2): 219-229. DOI： 10.1007/s10118-017-1888-7.

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Abstract

A series of conjugated polymers based on PFS derivatives with

-conjugated 5-(9

-fluoren-2-yl)-2

2'-bithiophene (fluorene-

alt

-bithiophene) backbones

namely PFS-3C

PFS-4C and PFS-6C

were synthesized for their use as the anode interfacial layers (AILs) in the efficient fullerene-free polymer solar cells (PSCs). Alkyl sulfonate pendants with different lengths of alkyl side chains were introduced in the three polymers in order to investigate the effect of the alkyl chain length on the anode modification. The obtained three polymers exhibited similar absorption bands and energy levels

indicating that changing the length of the alkyl side chains did not affect the optoelectronic properties of the conjugated polymers. Based on the PBDB-T:ITIC active layer

we fabricated the fullerene-free PSCs using the three polymers as the AILs. The superior performance of the fullerene-free PSC device was achieved when PFS-4C was used as the AIL

showing a power conversion efficiency (PCE) of 10.54%. The high performance of the PFS-4C-modified device could be ascribed to the high transmittance

suitable work-function (WF) and smooth surface of PFS-4C. To the best of our knowledge

the PCE obtained in the PFS-4C-modified device is among the highest PCE values in the fullerene-free PSCs at present. These results demonstrate that the PFS derivatives are promising candidates in serving as the AIL materials for high-performance fullerene-free PSCs.

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