Mitigating the Trade-Off between Non-Radiative Recombination and Charge Transport to Enable Efficient Ternary Organic Solar Cells
Abstract
:1. Introduction
2. Results and Discussion
3. Conclusions
Supplementary Materials
Author Contributions
Funding
Informed Consent Statement
Data Availability Statement
Acknowledgments
Conflicts of Interest
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Devices | Voc (V) a /MAX | Jsc (mA/cm2) a /MAX | FF a /MAX | PCE (%) a /MAX | (cm2V−1s−1) b | (cm2V−1s−1) b | |
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1:1:0 | 0.80/0.82 | 15.42/15.93 | 0.49/0.53 | 6.47/7.14 | 1.05 | 0.152 | 6.94 |
1:0.95:0.05 | 0.85/0.87 | 15.80/16.29 | 0.67/0.69 | 9.23/9.80 | 2.43 | 1.86 | 1.30 |
1:0.9:0.1 | 0.88/0.90 | 16.01/16.52 | 0.67/0.69 | 9.96/10.25 | 4.53 | 4.36 | 1.04 |
1:0.8:0.2 | 0.89/0.91 | 15.17/15.57 | 0.400.41 | 5.53/5.80 | 7.11 | 4.80 | 1.48 |
1:0:1 | 0.90/0.92 | 13.51/13.61 | 0.45/0.50 | 5.74/6.32 | 9.88 | 5.34 | 1.85 |
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Zhang, Y.; Yuan, S.; Zhang, C.; Ding, C.; Zhang, C.; Xu, H. Mitigating the Trade-Off between Non-Radiative Recombination and Charge Transport to Enable Efficient Ternary Organic Solar Cells. Materials 2023, 16, 5620. https://doi.org/10.3390/ma16165620
Zhang Y, Yuan S, Zhang C, Ding C, Zhang C, Xu H. Mitigating the Trade-Off between Non-Radiative Recombination and Charge Transport to Enable Efficient Ternary Organic Solar Cells. Materials. 2023; 16(16):5620. https://doi.org/10.3390/ma16165620
Chicago/Turabian StyleZhang, Yexin, Shuai Yuan, Congyang Zhang, Chenfeng Ding, Congcong Zhang, and Hai Xu. 2023. "Mitigating the Trade-Off between Non-Radiative Recombination and Charge Transport to Enable Efficient Ternary Organic Solar Cells" Materials 16, no. 16: 5620. https://doi.org/10.3390/ma16165620