High-Performance Polymer Solar Cells with Zinc Sulfide-Phenanthroline Derivatives as the Hybrid Cathode Interlayers

Environmentally benign hybrid interlayers are prepared by modifying the zinc sulfide (ZnS) with phenanthroline/derivatives and utilized in inverted polymer solar cells (PSCs). Performances of the inverted PSCs are improved enormously by incorporating these hybrid interlayers, as which can effectively improve the energy level alignment, electron mobility, surface morphology, and interfacial contact. Greatly improved power conversion efficiencies (PCEs) of 7.79%, 8.00%, 7.47%, and 7.56% are achieved with these hybrid interlayers ZnS-BCP, ZnS-Bphen, ZnS-Mphen, and ZnS-Phen, respectively, compared to the PCE of 2.99% of the reference ZnS-based device, based on PTB7:PC71BM active layer. Our results demonstrate that hybrid interfacial materials comprising inorganic and organic semiconductor possess promising potential to improve the performance of organic electronic devices, and set an example to develop this novel class of interfacial materials for electronic devices.

Medienart:

E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2016

Erschienen:

2016

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Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:8

Enthalten in:

ACS applied materials & interfaces - 8(2016), 4 vom: 03. Feb., Seite 2688-93

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Wu, Yulei [VerfasserIn]
Liu, Xiaohui [VerfasserIn]
Li, Xiaodong [VerfasserIn]
Zhang, Wenjun [VerfasserIn]
Wang, Hai-Qiao [VerfasserIn]
Fang, Junfeng [VerfasserIn]

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Themen:

Cathode
Hybrid interlayer
Inverted polymer solar cells
Journal Article
Phenanthroline
Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
ZnS

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Date Completed 15.06.2016

Date Revised 03.02.2016

published: Print-Electronic

Citation Status PubMed-not-MEDLINE

doi:

10.1021/acsami.5b10798

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PPN (Katalog-ID):

NLM256365121