Origins of the open-circuit voltage in ternary organic solar cells and design rules for minimized voltage losses

Author:

Wang YumingORCID,Yu Jianwei,Zhang RuiORCID,Yuan Jun,Hultmark SandraORCID,Johnson Catherine E.ORCID,Gallop Nathaniel P.,Siegmund BernhardORCID,Qian Deping,Zhang HuotianORCID,Zou YingpingORCID,Kemerink MartijnORCID,Bakulin Artem A.ORCID,Müller ChristianORCID,Vandewal KoenORCID,Chen Xian-KaiORCID,Gao FengORCID

Abstract

AbstractThe power conversion efficiency of ternary organic solar cells (TOSCs), consisting of one host binary blend and one guest component, remains limited by large voltage losses. The fundamental understanding of the open-circuit voltage (VOC) in TOSCs is controversial, limiting rational design of the guest component. In this study, we systematically investigate how the guest component affects the radiative and non-radiative related parts of VOC of a series of TOSCs using the detailed balanced principle. We highlight that the thermal population of charge-transfer and local exciton states provided by the guest binary blend (that is, the guest-component-based binary blend) has a significant influence on the non-radiative voltage losses. Ultimately, we provide two design rules for enhancing the VOC in TOSCs: high emission yield for the guest binary blend and similar charge-transfer-state energies for host/guest binary blends; high miscibility of the guest component with the low gap component in the host binary blend.

Publisher

Springer Science and Business Media LLC

Subject

Energy Engineering and Power Technology,Fuel Technology,Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment,Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials

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