High Open-circuit Voltage and Low Voltage Loss in All-polymer Solar Cell with a Poly(coronenediimide-vinylene) Acceptor

Han Han; Fu-Jin Bai; Rong Wei; Han Yu; Yi-Kun Guo; He Yan; Da-Hui Zhao

doi:10.1007/s10118-020-2426-6

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High Open-circuit Voltage and Low Voltage Loss in All-polymer Solar Cell with a Poly(coronenediimide-vinylene) Acceptor

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- High Open-circuit Voltage and Low Voltage Loss in All-polymer Solar Cell with a Poly(coronenediimide-vinylene) Acceptor
- Chinese Journal of Polymer Science Vol. 38, Issue 11, Pages: 1157-1163(2020)
- Affiliations：
  
  a.Beijing National Laboratory for Molecular Sciences, Centre for the Soft Matter Science and Engineering, The Key Laboratory of Polymer Chemistry and Physics of the Ministry of Education, College of Chemistry, Peking University, Beijing 100871, China
  b.Department of Chemistry and Hong Kong Branch of Chinese National Engineering Research Centre for Tissue Restoration & Reconstruction, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST), Clear Water Bay, Kowloon, Hong Kong 999077, China
- Author bio：
  
  hyan@ust.hk (H.Y.)
  dhzhao@pku.edu.cn (D.H.Z.)
- Funds：
- DOI：10.1007/s10118-020-2426-6
  CLC：
- Received：31 January 2020，
  
  Revised：2020-3-11，
  
  Accepted：13 March 2020，
  
  Online First：27 May 2020，
  
  Published：14 August 2020
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Han, H.; Bai, F. J.; Wei, R.; Yu, H.; Guo, Y. K.; Yan, H.; Zhao, D. H. High open-circuit voltage and low voltage loss in all-polymer solar cell with a poly(coronenediimide-vinylene) acceptor. Chinese J. Polym. Sci. 2020, 38, 1157–1163

Han Han, Fu-Jin Bai, Rong Wei, et al. High Open-circuit Voltage and Low Voltage Loss in All-polymer Solar Cell with a Poly(coronenediimide-vinylene) Acceptor[J]. Chinese Journal of Polymer Science, 2020, 38(11): 1157-1163.
Han, H.; Bai, F. J.; Wei, R.; Yu, H.; Guo, Y. K.; Yan, H.; Zhao, D. H. High open-circuit voltage and low voltage loss in all-polymer solar cell with a poly(coronenediimide-vinylene) acceptor. Chinese J. Polym. Sci. 2020, 38, 1157–1163 DOI： 10.1007/s10118-020-2426-6.

Han Han, Fu-Jin Bai, Rong Wei, et al. High Open-circuit Voltage and Low Voltage Loss in All-polymer Solar Cell with a Poly(coronenediimide-vinylene) Acceptor[J]. Chinese Journal of Polymer Science, 2020, 38(11): 1157-1163. DOI： 10.1007/s10118-020-2426-6.

摘要

Abstract

Reducing the voltage loss (

loss

) is a critical factor in optimizing the open-circuit voltage (

) and overall power-conversion efficiency (PCE) of polymer solar cells. In the current work

by designing a novel electron-accepting unit of coronenediimide (CDI) and using it as the main functional building block

a new polymer acceptor CDI-V is developed and applied to fabricate all-polymer solar cells. Compared with the perylenediimide-based polymer acceptors we previously reported

the current CDI-V polymer possesses a noticeably elevated lowest unoccupied molecular orbital (LUMO). Thereby

by virtue of the enlarged energy gap between the donor HOMO and acceptor LUMO

a high

value of 1.05 V is achieved by the all-polymer photovolatic device

along with an impressively low

loss

of 0.55 V. As remarkably

in spite of an extremely small LUMO level offset of 0.01 eV exhibited by the donor and acceptor polymers

effective charge separation still takes place in the all-polymer device

as evidenced by a proper short-circuit current (

) of 9.5 mA·cm

−2

and a decent PCE of 4.63%.

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