Citation: Jing-qi Xu, Wei-fei Fu, Shi-da Yang, Tang Liu, Chang-zhi Li, Hong-zheng Chen. Interface Engineering in Organic and Organic/Inorganic Hybrid Solar Cells[J]. Acta Polymerica Sinica, ;2018, (2): 164-173. doi: 10.11777/j.issn1000-3304.2018.17251 shu

Interface Engineering in Organic and Organic/Inorganic Hybrid Solar Cells

Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou 310027

Corresponding author: Wei-fei Fu, zjufwf@zju.edu.cn Hong-zheng Chen, hzchen@zju.edu.cn
Received Date: 1 September 2017
Revised Date: 27 September 2017

Third generation solar cells including organic solar cells, perovskite solar cells have attracted much attention due to their advantages of low cost, solution processability and flexibility. The rapid progress in this field is attributed to the development of absorbing layers, interfacial materials or interfacial modification, device architectures and so on. Especially, the interfaces in the devices significantly affect the exciton dissociation, charge carrier transport and collection, and subsequently affect the device performance. This review focuses on the interface engineering in organic solar cells, polymer/nanocrystal hybrid solar cells and perovskite solar cells in our group. We summarize the strategies of designing effective interfacial materials including hole-transporting materials, electron-transporting materials and their modification to achieve ohmic contact at the interface of active layer and electrodes. A series of low-temperature solution processed low-cost inorganic materials and organic small molecules are developed. With appropriate energy levels, high mobility and low defect or ability to passivate perovskites, highly efficient organic and perovskite solar cells are achieved. Self-assembly monolayer technologies are also discussed here. It is an efficient way to modify the work function of electrodes to obtain ohmic contact between electrodes and active layer. On one hand, the self-assembly monolayer can also be used to passivate the defect of metal oxide buffer layer such as ZnO or TiO₂ to reduce recombination, which may improve the morphology of perovskite film to enhance the performance. Plasmonic effect is introduced to enhance the light absorption of active layer by incorporating Au or Ag nanoparticles into the interface layers. At last, the optimized strategies for interface modification between polymer and nanocrystals to improve the exciton dissociation and charge transport are discussed in details. By attaching benzenedithiol ligands onto the surface of CdSe nanocrystals in the "face-on" geometry, the nanocrystal-nanocrystal or polymer-nanocrystal distance is minimized. Furthermore, the "electroactive" π-orbitals of the benzenedithiol can further enhance the electronic coupling, which facilitates charge carrier dissociation and transport. On the other hand, judicious choice of ligands with appropriate molecular dipoles has a strong impact on chemical and electronic structures at the polymer-nanocrystal interface and subsequently on photovoltaic device performance. With these strategies, highly efficient polymer/CdSe nanocrystal hybrid solar cells have been achieved. A few viewpoints on further developing interface engineering for high-performance solar cells are also provided.
- Interfacial materials,
- Self-assembly monolayer,
- Plasmonic effect,
- Solar cell
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