Exploring ternary organic photovoltaics for the reduced nonradiative recombination and improved efficiency over 17.23% with a simple large-bandgap small molecular third component
  
  
 
 
  By
  Feng, HR (Feng, Huanran) 
  Dai, YJ (Dai, Yvjie) 
  Guo, LH (Guo, Lihao) 
  Wang, D (Wang, Di) 
  Dong, H (Dong, Hao) 
  Liu, ZH (Liu, Zhihui) 
  Zhang, L (Zhang, Lu) 
  Zhu, YJ (Zhu, Yvjin) 
  Su, C (Su, Chen) 
  Chen, YS (Chen, Yongsheng) 
  Wu, WW (Wu, Weiwei) 
  
  
 
,2021
DOI: 10.1007/s12274-021-3945-3
 
 
  Abstract
  
   
    Ternary strategy is one of the most effective methods to further boost the power conversion efficiency (PCE) of organic photovoltaic cells (OPVs). In terms of high-efficiency PM6:Y6 binary systems, there is still room to further reduce energy loss (E-loss) through regulating molecular packing and aggregation by introducing a third component in the construction of ternary OPVs. Here we introduce a simple molecule BR1 based on an acceptor-donor-acceptor (A-D-A) structure with a wide bandgap and high crystallinity into PM6:Y6-based OPVs. It is proved that BR1 can be selectively dispersed into the donor phase in the PM6:Y6 and reduce disorder in the ternary blends, thus resulting in lower E-loss,E- non-rad and E-loss. Furthermore, the mechanism study reveals well-develop phase separation morphology and complemented absorption spectra in the ternary blends, leading to higher charge mobility, suppressed recombination, which concurrently contributes to the significantly improved PCE of 17.23% for the ternary system compared with the binary ones (16.21%). This work provides an effective approach to improve the performance of the PM6:Y6-based OPVs by adopting a ternary strategy with a simple molecule as the third component.