Abstract
Alcohol-soluble isoindigo derivative with thiophene groups and sulfobetaine zwitterions, IIDTh-NSB was applied as a novel modifier of ZnO in inverted polymer solar cells (i-PSCs). When IIDTh-NSB (0.2 mg/mL) was spin-coated on ZnO as an electron transport layer (ETL), power conversion efficiency (PCE) of the PTB7:PC71BM based i-PSCs reached 8.88%, which is a 20% improvement of that of 7.40% for the device with the ZnO-only ETL. If ZnO was doped by IIDTh-NSB of 1.0 wt %, the PCE of 8.50% could be achieved in the i-PSCs. Combined measurements of capacitance-voltage characteristics, carrier mobility, and photocurrent density-effective voltage characteristics revealed that incorporating IIDTh-NSB as the modifier of ZnO by coating or doping enhanced the built-in potential, charge carrier density and mobility, exciton dissociation, and charge carrier extraction in the i-PSCs because of the improved interfacial contact between the photoactive layer and ZnO as shown in water contact angle measurements and atomic force microscopy images. Finally, impedance spectroscopy investigation provided strong lines of evidence that incorporating IIDTh-NSB as the modifier of ZnO led to the great enhancement in short-circuit current density and fill factor. Furthermore, all the devices with IIDTh-NSB as a modifier of ZnO presented better stability than the device with ZnO-only. These findings suggest that IIDTh-NSB is an effective and competitive material for modification of ZnO in the i-PSCs.
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