title: The influence of binary processing additives on the performance of polymer solar cells.
abstract: In this study, we report the investigation of the influence of binary processing additives, 1,8-octanedithiol (ODT) and 1-chloronaphthalene (CN) on the performance of polymer solar cells (PSCs). It was found that the power conversion efficiency (PCE) can be enhanced to 8.55% from the PSCs processed with binary processing additives as compared with ∼6.50% from the PSCs processed with either ODT or CN processing additives. With binary processing additives, the crystallinity of the electron donor polymer, poly[[4,8-bis[(2-ethylhexyl)oxy]benzo[1,2-b:4,5-b']dithiophene-2,6-diyl][3-fluoro-2-[(2 ethylhexyl)carbonyl]thieno[3,4-b]thiophenediyl]], was elevated, which in turn facilitated charge transport within the bulk heterojunction (BHJ) layer, resulting in a high short-circuit current and large fill factor. By photophysical studies, we further found that the high PCE is majorly attributed to the minimized nongeminate recombination by controlling the kinetic film morphologies of the BHJ composite by binary solvent processing additives.
authors.affiliation: College of Polymer Science and Polymer Engineering, University of Akron, Akron, OH 44325, USA. xgong@uakron.edu.
authors.forename: Chang
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Liu
authors.forename: Xiaowen
authors.initials: X
authors.lastname: Hu
authors.forename: Chengmei
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Zhong
authors.forename: Mingjun
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Huang
authors.forename: Kai
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Wang
authors.forename: Zhan
authors.initials: Z
authors.lastname: Zhang
authors.forename: Xiong
authors.initials: X
authors.lastname: Gong
authors.forename: Yong
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Cao
authors.forename: Alan J
authors.initials: AJ
authors.lastname: Heeger