18.01%Efficiency organic solar cell and 2.53%light utilization efficiency semitransparent organic solar cell enabled by optimizing PM6:Y6 active layer morphology

Optimizing the photoactive layer morphology is a simple,promising way to improve the power conversion efficiencies(PCEs)of organic solar cells(OSCs).Here,we compared different post-processing treatments on PM6:Y6 blend films and relevant effects on device performances,including as-cast,thermal annealing and solvent annealing.This solvent annealing processes can effectively improve the vertical distribution and aggregation of polymer donors and small molecule acceptors,then optimize the active layer film morphology,ultimately elevating PCE.Thus,one of champion efficiencies of 18.01%was achieved based on the PM6:Y6 binary OSCs.In addition,a relatively high light utilization efficiency(2.53%)was achieved when a transparent electrode made of Cu(1 nm)and Ag(15 nm)was utilized to fabricate a semitransparent OSC with a remarkable PCE of 13.07%and 19.33%average visible-light transmittance.These results demonstrated that carefully optimizing morphology of active layer is conducive to achieving a high-performance OSC.

Improved phase stability of CsPbI2Br perovskite by released microstrain toward highly efficient and stable solar cells

All-inorganic perovskite solar cells(PSCs)have developed rapidly in the field of photovoltaics due to their excellent thermal and light stability.However,compared with organic–inorganic hybrid perovskites,the phase instability of inorganic perovskite under humidity still remains as a critical issue that ham-pers the commercialization of inorganic PSCs.We originally propose in this work that microstrains between the perovskite lattices/grains play a key role in affecting the phase stability of inorganic perovskite.To this end,we inno-vatively design theπ-conjugated p-type molecule bis(2-ethylhexyl)3,30((4,8-bis(5-(2-ethylhexyl)-3,4-difluorothiophen-2-yl)benzo[1,2-b:4,5-b0]dithiophene-2,6-di yl)bis(3,300-dioctyl[2,20:50,200-terthiophene]-500,5-diyl))(2E,20 E)-bis(2-cyanoacrylate)(BTEC-2F)to covalent with the Pb dangling bonds in CsPbI2Br perovskite film,which significantly suppress the trap states and release the defect-induced local stress between perovskite grains.The interplay between the microstrains and phase stability of the inorganic perovskite are scrutinized by a series of charac-terizations including x-ray photoelectron spectroscopy,photoluminescence,x-ray diffraction,scanning electron microscopy,and so forth,based on which,we conclude that weaker local stresses in the perovskite film engender superior phase stability by preventing the perovskite lattice distortion under humidity.By this rational design,PSCs based on CsPbI2Br perovskite system deliver an outstanding power conversion efficiency(PCE)up to 16.25%.The unencapsulated device also exhibits an exceptional moisture stability by retaining over 80%of the initial PCE after 500 h aging in ambient with relative humidity of(RH)25%.