TY - JOUR
T1 - Influence of solvent additive on the performance and aging behavior of non-fullerene organic solar cells
AU - Arredondo, Belén
AU - Carlos Pérez-Martínez, José
AU - Muñoz-Díaz, Laura
AU - López-González, Maria del Carmen
AU - Martín-Martín, Diego
AU - del Pozo, Gonzalo
AU - Hernández-Balaguera, Enrique
AU - Romero, Beatriz
AU - Lamminaho, Jani
AU - Turkovic, Vida
AU - Madsen, Morten
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2021 International Solar Energy Society
PY - 2022/1/15
Y1 - 2022/1/15
N2 - The performance of organic solar cells has improved significantly in recent years due to the use of non-fullerene acceptors (NFA). While processing additives are typically added to the active layer blends to enhance device performance in NFA organic solar cells, their impact on device degradation remains unclear. In this work we have compared the performance, in pristine and degraded state, between air-processed slot-die coated NFA ITO-free organic solar cells with and without the processing additive DIO, using a structure of PET/Ag/ZnO/PBDB-T:ITIC/FHC PEDOT:PSS. We observed an improvement in the power conversion efficiency of the devices when adding DIO, from 4.03% up to 4.97%. The evolution of the performance for both devices under ISOS-L1 life testing protocol reveals that the drop in efficiency is mainly due to a decay of JSC for both cells. In the short time scale the efficiency of non-DIO cells decays faster than the DIO cells, whereas in the long time scale the efficiency of non-DIO cells tends to stabilize sooner. Carrier mobilities estimated from impedance measurements decrease with time at similar rate for both degraded samples. Besides, DIO devices present a steep increase of the series resistance with time causing a decrease of the FF and thus of the efficiency. Moreover, in both degraded devices, the open-circuit voltage saturates with increasing illumination intensity. Numerical simulations reveal that a reduced anode work function of 5 eV is needed to fit experimental data.
AB - The performance of organic solar cells has improved significantly in recent years due to the use of non-fullerene acceptors (NFA). While processing additives are typically added to the active layer blends to enhance device performance in NFA organic solar cells, their impact on device degradation remains unclear. In this work we have compared the performance, in pristine and degraded state, between air-processed slot-die coated NFA ITO-free organic solar cells with and without the processing additive DIO, using a structure of PET/Ag/ZnO/PBDB-T:ITIC/FHC PEDOT:PSS. We observed an improvement in the power conversion efficiency of the devices when adding DIO, from 4.03% up to 4.97%. The evolution of the performance for both devices under ISOS-L1 life testing protocol reveals that the drop in efficiency is mainly due to a decay of JSC for both cells. In the short time scale the efficiency of non-DIO cells decays faster than the DIO cells, whereas in the long time scale the efficiency of non-DIO cells tends to stabilize sooner. Carrier mobilities estimated from impedance measurements decrease with time at similar rate for both degraded samples. Besides, DIO devices present a steep increase of the series resistance with time causing a decrease of the FF and thus of the efficiency. Moreover, in both degraded devices, the open-circuit voltage saturates with increasing illumination intensity. Numerical simulations reveal that a reduced anode work function of 5 eV is needed to fit experimental data.
KW - Degradation
KW - DIO additive
KW - Non-fullerene
KW - Organic solar cells
KW - Slot-die coating
U2 - 10.1016/j.solener.2021.12.052
DO - 10.1016/j.solener.2021.12.052
M3 - Journal article
AN - SCOPUS:85122140013
SN - 0038-092X
VL - 232
SP - 120
EP - 127
JO - Solar Energy
JF - Solar Energy
ER -