High‐Efficiency Binary Organic Solar Cells Enabled by Pseudo‐Bilayer Configuration in Dilute Solution

Abstract

Forming proper film morphology in organic solar cells (OSCs) is important to govern the exciton dissociation and charge transport. Herein, high‐performance pseudo‐bilayer heterojunction (PBHJ) OSCs with donor:acceptor (D:A) bilayer architecture are reported by sequentially depositing two layers of diluted active solution with different D:A ratios. Such pseudo‐bilayer films can not only enable the cascaded components distributed in the vertical direction, but also afford large donor and acceptor (D/A) interfaces for efficient exciton dissociation. Additionally, the D:A active layer on the bottom substrate can act as a seed to promote the crystallization process of the upper film during the sequential casting process. The PBHJ strategy on two representative D:A blends, PM6:Y6 and PTQ10:Y6, is implemented. Benefiting from the synergetic effects of efficient exciton dissociation and balanced charge transport, the devices based on PM6:Y6 and PTQ10:Y6 show high power conversion efficiencies of 17.73% and 17.81%, respectively. Notably, the presented PBHJ devices are fabricated by using dilute chloroform solution (4 mg mL−1 for donor), demonstrating the excellent potential for poorly soluble donors and acceptors in future OSCs applications.