PMID- 30965875
OWN - NLM
STAT- PubMed-not-MEDLINE
LR  - 20231006
IS  - 2073-4360 (Electronic)
IS  - 2073-4360 (Linking)
VI  - 9
IP  - 11
DP  - 2017 Nov 3
TI  - The Effect of Donor and Nonfullerene Acceptor Inhomogeneous Distribution within 
      the Photoactive Layer on the Performance of Polymer Solar Cells with Different 
      Device Structures.
LID - 10.3390/polym9110571 [doi]
LID - 571
AB  - Due to the inhomogeneous distribution of donor and acceptor materials within the 
      photoactive layer of bulk heterojunction organic solar cells (OSCs), proper 
      selection of a conventional or an inverted device structure is crucial for 
      effective exciton dissociation and charge transportation. Herein, we investigate 
      the donor and acceptor distribution within the non-fullerene photoactive layer 
      based on PBDTTT-ET:IEICO by time-of-flight secondary-ion mass spectroscopy 
      (TOF-SIMS) and scanning Kelvin probe microscopy (SKPM), indicating that more 
      IEICO enriches on the surface of the photoactive layer while PBDTTT-ET 
      distributes homogeneously within the photoactive layer. To further understand the 
      effect of the inhomogeneous component distribution on the photovoltaic 
      performance, both conventional and inverted OSCs were fabricated. As a result, 
      the conventional device shows a power conversion efficiency (PCE) of 8.83% which 
      is 41% higher than that of inverted one (6.26%). Eventually, we employed nickel 
      oxide (NiO(x)) instead of PEDOT:PSS as anode buffer layer to further enhance the 
      stability and PCE of OSCs with conventional structure, and a promising PCE of 
      9.12% is achieved.
FAU - Wang, Yaping
AU  - Wang Y
AUID- ORCID: 0000-0003-3879-1242
AD  - State Key Laboratory of Alternate Electrical Power System with Renewable Energy 
      Sources, North China Electric Power University, Beijing 102206, China. 
      wyp614725@163.com.
FAU - Shi, Zhenzhen
AU  - Shi Z
AD  - State Key Laboratory of Alternate Electrical Power System with Renewable Energy 
      Sources, North China Electric Power University, Beijing 102206, China. 
      shizz123@126.com.
FAU - Liu, Hao
AU  - Liu H
AD  - State Key Laboratory of Alternate Electrical Power System with Renewable Energy 
      Sources, North China Electric Power University, Beijing 102206, China. 
      dylht00@126.com.
FAU - Wang, Fuzhi
AU  - Wang F
AD  - State Key Laboratory of Alternate Electrical Power System with Renewable Energy 
      Sources, North China Electric Power University, Beijing 102206, China. 
      wfz501@ncepu.edu.cn.
FAU - Bai, Yiming
AU  - Bai Y
AUID- ORCID: 0000-0003-4618-2586
AD  - State Key Laboratory of Alternate Electrical Power System with Renewable Energy 
      Sources, North China Electric Power University, Beijing 102206, China. 
      ymbai@ncepu.edu.cn.
FAU - Bian, Xingming
AU  - Bian X
AD  - State Key Laboratory of Alternate Electrical Power System with Renewable Energy 
      Sources, North China Electric Power University, Beijing 102206, China. 
      bianxingming@ncepu.edu.cn.
FAU - Zhang, Bing
AU  - Zhang B
AD  - State Key Laboratory of Alternate Electrical Power System with Renewable Energy 
      Sources, North China Electric Power University, Beijing 102206, China. 
      mpezb310@gmail.com.
FAU - Hayat, Tasawar
AU  - Hayat T
AD  - Department of Mathematics, Quiad-I-Azam University, Islamabad 44000, Pakistan. 
      tahaksag@yahoo.com.
AD  - NAAM Research Group, Faculty of Science, King Abdulaziz University, Jeddah 21589, 
      Saudi Arabia. tahaksag@yahoo.com.
FAU - Alsaedi, Ahmed
AU  - Alsaedi A
AD  - NAAM Research Group, Faculty of Science, King Abdulaziz University, Jeddah 21589, 
      Saudi Arabia. aalsaedi@hotmail.com.
FAU - Tan, Zhan'ao
AU  - Tan Z
AUID- ORCID: 0000-0003-3879-1242
AD  - State Key Laboratory of Alternate Electrical Power System with Renewable Energy 
      Sources, North China Electric Power University, Beijing 102206, China. 
      tanzhanao@ncepu.edu.cn.
LA  - eng
GR  - 51573042/National Natural Science Foundation of China/
PT  - Journal Article
DEP - 20171103
PL  - Switzerland
TA  - Polymers (Basel)
JT  - Polymers
JID - 101545357
PMC - PMC6418818
OTO - NOTNLM
OT  - anode buffer layer
OT  - inhomogeneous distribution
OT  - nickel oxide
OT  - non-fullerene photoactive layer
OT  - organic solar cells
COIS- The authors declare no conflict of interest.
EDAT- 2017/11/03 00:00
MHDA- 2017/11/03 00:01
PMCR- 2017/11/03
CRDT- 2019/04/11 06:00
PHST- 2017/09/12 00:00 [received]
PHST- 2017/10/26 00:00 [revised]
PHST- 2017/10/31 00:00 [accepted]
PHST- 2019/04/11 06:00 [entrez]
PHST- 2017/11/03 00:00 [pubmed]
PHST- 2017/11/03 00:01 [medline]
PHST- 2017/11/03 00:00 [pmc-release]
AID - polym9110571 [pii]
AID - polymers-09-00571 [pii]
AID - 10.3390/polym9110571 [doi]
PST - epublish
SO  - Polymers (Basel). 2017 Nov 3;9(11):571. doi: 10.3390/polym9110571.