All polymer photovoltaics: From small inverted devices to large roll-to-roll coated and printed solar cells

Yao Liu; Thue T. Larsen-Olsen; Xingang Zhao; Birgitta Andreasen; Roar R. Søndergaard; Martin Helgesen; Kion Norrman; Mikkel Jørgensen; Frederik C. Krebs; Xiaowei Zhan

doi:10.1016/j.solmat.2013.01.025

All polymer photovoltaics: From small inverted devices to large roll-to-roll coated and printed solar cells

Yao Liu
, Thue T. Larsen-Olsen
, Xingang Zhao
, Birgitta Andreasen
, Roar R. Søndergaard
, Martin Helgesen
, Kion Norrman
, Mikkel Jørgensen
, Frederik C. Krebs^*
, Xiaowei Zhan

^*Corresponding author for this work

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Abstract

Inverted all polymer solar cells based on a blend of a perylene diimide based polymer acceptor and a dithienosilole based polymer donor were fabricated from small area devices to roll-to-roll (R2R) coated and printed large area modules. The device performance was successfully optimized by using solvent additive to tune the phase separation. By adding 2% chloronaphthalene as solvent additive for small area (0.25 cm²) devices, a power conversion efficiency (PCE) up to 0.63% was achieved for inverted geometry, higher than that (0.39%) of conventional geometry. This polymer blend showed excellent solution processibility and R2R coated and printed large area (4.2 cm ²) solar cells exhibited a PCE of 0.20%.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	157-162
Number of pages	6
Journal	Solar Energy Materials and Solar Cells
Volume	112
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.solmat.2013.01.025
State	Published - 2013
Externally published	Yes

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Funding Information:
This material is based upon work supported in part by the NSFC (Grants 51261130582 , 21025418 , 21021091 ), 973 Project (Grant 2011CB808401), the Danish National Research Foundation and the Chinese Academy of Sciences .

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SDG 7 Affordable and Clean Energy

Keywords

All-polymer solar cells
Inverted geometry
Roll-to-roll process

ASJC Scopus subject areas

Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials
Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment
Surfaces, Coatings and Films

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