High-Efficiency Organic Solar Cells with Wide Toleration of Active Layer Thickness

Industrial printing production of organic solar cells (OSCs) requires high power conversion efficiency (PCE) with wide toleration of active layer thickness. Herein, high-efficiency thick-film OSCs are demonstrated using a polymer fibril network strategy (FNS), which involves a donor polymer (PT2) that can self-assemble into fibril nanostructure, and two nonfullerene acceptors with different crystalline properties. The fibril network can form a high-speed hole transport channel and the addition of IDIC as a third component in active layers can improve the electron transport. As a result, the OSCs show high PCEs of ≈12% with wide toleration of active layer thickness (from 100 to 500 nm). The results indicate that FNS is a promising approach for the fabrication of highly efficient thick-film PSCs, which can facilitate the commercialization of OSCs.