Ternary-Blend Polymer Solar Cells Combining Fullerene and Nonfullerene Acceptors to Synergistically Boost the Photovoltaic Performance.

Lu, Heng; Zhang, Jicheng; Chen, Jianya; Liu, Qian; Gong, Xue; Feng, Shiyu; Xu, Xinjun; Ma, Wei et al. · Adv Mater · 2016

basic_science · Level V

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Abstract

A ternary-blend strategy is presented to surmount the shortcomings of both fullerene derivatives and nonfullerene small molecules as acceptors for the first time. The optimal ternary device shows a high power conversion efficiency (PCE) of 10.4%. Moreover, a significant enhancement in PCE (≈35%) relative to both of the binary reference devices, which has never been achieved before in high-efficiency ternary devices, is demonstrated.