18.73% efficient and stable inverted organic photovoltaics featuring a hybrid hole-extraction layer.

Yuanbao Lin; Yadong Zhang; Artiom Magomedov; Eleftheria Gkogkosi; Junxiang Zhang; Xiaopeng Zheng; Abdulrahman El Labban; Stephen Barlow; Vytautas Getautis; Ergang Wang; Leonidas Tsetseris; Seth R Marder; Iain McCulloch; Thomas D. Anthopoulos

doi:10.1039/d2mh01575g

18.73% efficient and stable inverted organic photovoltaics featuring a hybrid hole-extraction layer.

Yuanbao Lin, Yadong Zhang, Artiom Magomedov, Eleftheria Gkogkosi, Junxiang Zhang, Xiaopeng Zheng, Abdulrahman El Labban, Stephen Barlow, Vytautas Getautis, Ergang Wang, Leonidas Tsetseris, Seth R Marder, Iain McCulloch, Thomas D. Anthopoulos

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Developing efficient and stable organic photovoltaics (OPVs) is crucial for the technology's commercial success. However, combining these key attributes remains challenging. Herein, we incorporate the small molecule 2-((3,6-dibromo-9H-carbazol-9-yl)ethyl)phosphonic acid (Br-2PACz) between the bulk-heterojunction (BHJ) and a 7 nm-thin layer of MoO3 in inverted OPVs, and study its effects on the cell performance. We find that the Br-2PACz/MoO3 hole-extraction layer (HEL) boosts the cell's power conversion efficiency (PCE) from 17.36% to 18.73% (uncertified), making them the most efficient inverted OPVs to date. The factors responsible for this improvement include enhanced charge transport, reduced carrier recombination, and favourable vertical phase separation of donor and acceptor components in the BHJ. The Br-2PACz/MoO3-based OPVs exhibit higher operational stability under continuous illumination and thermal annealing (80 °C). The T80 lifetime of OPVs featuring Br-2PACz/MoO3 – taken as the time over which the cell's PCE reduces to 80% of its initial value – increases compared to MoO3-only cells from 297 to 615 h upon illumination and from 731 to 1064 h upon continuous heating. Elemental analysis of the BHJs reveals the enhanced stability to originate from the partially suppressed diffusion of Mo ions into the BHJ and the favourable distribution of the donor and acceptor components induced by the Br-2PACz.

Original language	English (US)
Journal	Materials Horizons
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1039/d2mh01575g
State	Published - Feb 6 2023

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KAUST Repository Item: Exported on 2023-02-17
Acknowledged KAUST grant number(s): OSR-2018-CARF/CCF-3079, OSR-2019-CRG8-4095.3
Acknowledgements: This publication is based upon work supported by the King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST) Office of Sponsored Research (OSR) under Awards no: OSR-2018-CARF/CCF-3079 and OSR-2019-CRG8-4095.3. Y. Z., J. Z., S. B., and S. R. M. acknowledge funding from NSF under the CCI Center for Selective C–H Functionalization (CHE-1700982) and from the Department of the Navy, Office of Naval Research as part of a Multidisciplinary University Research Initiative, Award no., N00014-21-1-2180. E. G. and L. T. acknowledge support for the computational time granted from GRNET in the National HPC facility-ARIS – under project ATOMA. A. M. and V. G. acknowledge funding from the Research Council of Lithuania under grant agreement no. 01.2.2-LMT-K-718-03-0040 (SMARTMOLECULES).

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