Importance of Electric-Field-Independent Mobilities in Thick-Film Organic Solar Cells.

In organic solar cells (OSCs), a thick active layer usually yields a higher photocurrent with broader optical absorption than a thin active layer. In fact, a ∼300 nm thick active layer is more compatible with large-area processing methods and theoretically should be a better spot for efficiency optimization. However, the bottleneck of developing high-efficiency thick-film OSCs is the loss in fill factor (FF).

Pinning Down the Anomalous Light Soaking Effect toward High-Performance and Fast-Response Perovskite Solar Cells: The Ion-Migration-Induced Charge Accumulation.

The light soaking effect (LSE) is widely known in perovskite solar cells (PVSCs), but its origin is still elusive. In this study, we show that in common with hysteresis, the LSE is owed to the ion migration in PVSCs. Driven by the photovoltage, the mobile ions in the perovskite materials (MA/I) migrate to the selective contacts, forming a boosted P-i-N junction resulting in enhanced charge separation.

Naphthalene diimide-difluorobenzene-based polymer acceptors for all-polymer solar cells.

Regio-random (P1) and -regular (P2) difluorobenzene-naphthalene-containing polymer acceptors were developed for bulk-heterojunction all-polymer solar cells (all-PSCs). P2 exhibited significantly higher crystallinity in thin films, providing high spectral absorptivity and electron mobility than P1. When used in all-PSC devices, P2 afforded a respectably higher power conversion efficiency of over 5%.