960化工网
Strongly enhanced efficiency of polymer solar cells through unzipped SWNT hybridization in the hole transport layer
Wenna Zhang,Fanchen Bu,Wenfei Shen,Xiaohua Qi,Na Yang,Mengyao Chen,Di Yang,Yao Wang,Miaorong Zhang,Haoyang Jiang,Peter Strizhak,Jianguo Tang
RSC Advances Pub Date : 07/02/2020 00:00:00 , DOI:10.1039/D0RA03461D
Abstract

Single-walled carbon nanotubes (SWNTs) have good conductivity, but their size can't match the heterojunction nanostructure in polymer solar cells (PSCs). To improve the photovoltaic performance of PSCs, herein, a faciley fabricated composite hole transport layer composed of unzipped single-walled carbon nanotubes (uSWNTs) and poly(3,4-ethylenedioxythiophene):polystyrene sulfonate (PEDOT:PSS) is effectively applied for PSC devices. Compared with the pure PEDOT:PSS hole transport layer (HTL) without uSWNTs, the uSWNTs/PEDOT:PSS layer shows more effective performance as the hole transportation layer. Optimizing the uSWNT concentration in PEDOT:PSS results in fabrication of the PSC devices with uSWNTs/PEDOT:PSS hole transport layers that exhibit greatly improved average power conversion efficiency (PCE), from 13.72% to 14.60%, and greatly enhanced current density and fill factor, which can be ascribed to the increased conductivity and hole transport efficiency. Our approach also supports simple solution-processing techniques and the insensitivity of the performance to thickness, which promises that the faciley fabricated uSWNTs/PEDOT:PSS layer has more potential to be applicable to the roll-to-roll process of PSC fabrication with extremely low cost.

Graphical abstract: Strongly enhanced efficiency of polymer solar cells through unzipped SWNT hybridization in the hole transport layer
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