Nature Communications (Sep 2019)

Surpassing the 10% efficiency milestone for 1-cm2 all-polymer solar cells

  • Baobing Fan,
  • Wenkai Zhong,
  • Lei Ying,
  • Difei Zhang,
  • Meijing Li,
  • Yanrui Lin,
  • Ruoxi Xia,
  • Feng Liu,
  • Hin-Lap Yip,
  • Ning Li,
  • Yuguang Ma,
  • Christoph J. Brabec,
  • Fei Huang,
  • Yong Cao

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-019-12132-6
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 10, no. 1
pp. 1 – 8

Abstract

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Thick film is preferred for sufficient light absorption and tolerant processing but it easily spoils the charge transport in the all-polymer solar cells. Here Fan et al. reconcile by tuning the film morphology and deliver high efficiency of 10% in 1 cm2 area devices.