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Regulating the morphology of fluorinated non-fullerene acceptor and polymer donor via binary solvent mixture for high efficiency polymer solar cells

2019; Springer Science+Business Media; Volume: 62; Issue: 9 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1007/s11426-019-9484-8

1674-7291

Mengxue Chen, Zhuohan Zhang, Wei Li, Jinlong Cai, Jiangsheng Yu, Emma L. K. Spooner, Rachel C. Kilbride, Donghui Li, Baocai Du, Robert S. Gurney, Dan Liú, Weihua Tang, David G. Lidzey, Tao Wang,

Organic Light-Emitting Diodes Research

Fluorinated non-fullerene acceptors (NFAs) usually have planar backbone and a higher tendency to crystallize compared to their non-fluorinated counterparts, which leads to enhanced charge mobility in organic solar cells (OSCs). However, this self-organization behavior may result in excessive phase separation with electron donors and thereby deteriorate device efficiency. Herein, we demonstrate an effective approach to tune the molecular organization of a fluorinated NFA (INPIC-4F), and its phase separation with the donor PBDB-T, by varying the casting solvent. A prolonged film drying time encourages the crystallization of INPIC-4F into spherulites and consequently results in excessive phase separation, leading to a low device power conversion efficiency (PCE) of 8.1%. Contrarily, a drying time leads to fine mixed domains with inefficient charge transport properties, resulting in a moderate device PCE of 11.4%. An intermediate film drying time results in the formation of face-on π-π stacked PBDB-T and INPIC-4F domains with continuous phase-separated networks, which facilitates light absorption, exciton dissociation as well as balanced charge transport towards the electrode, and achieves a remarkable PCE of 13.1%. This work provides a rational guide for optimizing the molecular ordering of NFAs and electron donors for high device efficiency.