- Title
- An ink-composition engineering approach for upscaling of organic solar cells with high-efficiency retention factor
- Creator
- Andersen, Thomas R.; Zhao, Feng; Li, Yaokai; Dickinson, Michael; Chen, Hongzheng
- Relation
- Solar RRL Vol. 4, Issue 10, no. 2000246
- Publisher Link
- http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/solr.202000246
- Publisher
- Wiley
- Resource Type
- journal article
- Date
- 2020
- Description
- The potential for commercialization of organic solar cells (OSCs) has vastly increased in recent years as the device efficiency for small-scale laboratory OSCs has continuously increased. There are, however, still multiple challenges that need to be addressed and overcome. Among them, upscaling of the device manufacturing techniques to be compatible with the potential attributes of low cost must be the pinnacle. Herein, a pathway for upscaling with an ink-engineering approach toward in-air optimization of large-area OSCs is presented. Optimized flexible indium tin oxide (ITO)-free OSCs based on a PTB7-TH:IEICO-4F:PC71BM ternary blend show efficiencies up to 10.2% (device active area 0.88 cm2), which is the highest value reported to date (for in-air slot-die-coated devices). This is achieved through ink modifications and optimizations as well as electrode and active layer compositional optimizations, leading to an impressive efficiency retention of 0.86 compared to the in-literature optimized small-scale devices.
- Subject
- flexible devices; ink optimization; indium tin oxide-free; slot-die coating; upscaling of organic solar cells; SDG 7; Sustainable Development Goals
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/1426984
- Identifier
- uon:38502
- Identifier
- ISSN:2367-198X
- Rights
- This is the peer reviewed version of the following article: Andersen, Thomas R.; Zhao, Feng; Li, Yaokai; Dickinson, Michael; Chen, Hongzheng. “An ink-composition engineering approach for upscaling of organic solar cells with high-efficiency retention factor”. Solar RRL Vol. 4, Issue 10, no. 2000246, which has been published in final form at http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/solr.202000246. This article may be used for non-commercial purposes in accordance with Wiley Terms and Conditions for Use of Self-Archived Versions. This article may be used for non-commercial purposes in accordance with Wiley Terms and Conditions for Use of Self-Archived Versions. This article may not be enhanced, enriched or otherwise transformed into a derivative work, without express permission from Wiley or by statutory rights under applicable legislation. Copyright notices must not be removed, obscured or modified. The article must be linked to Wiley’s version of record on Wiley Online Library and any embedding, framing or otherwise making available the article or pages thereof by third parties from platforms, services and websites other than Wiley Online Library must be prohibited.
- Language
- eng
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