High-performance alloy-like ternary organic solar cells with two compatible non-fullerene acceptors

Abstract

Ternary blending is one of the effective strategies to modulate the blend film morphology for achieving high efficiency organic solar cells (OSCs). In this work, high-performance ternary OSCs are fabricated by introducing a non-fullerene acceptor, namely IDTP-4F into the PM6:Y6 binary system to enhance the device performance. Detailed investigations indicate that IDTP-4F can form an alloy phase with Y6, resulting in the optimized morphology, which can facilitate the charge transport and reduce recombination, leading to enhanced open-circuit voltage ( V oc ) and fill factor (FF) simultaneously. Consequently, the optimized ternary OSCs exhibit an excellent power conversion efficiency (PCE) of 17.1%, which is much higher than that of PM6:Y6 binary OSCs (15.9%). These results indicate that combining two compatible non-fullerene acceptors is an effective strategy to fabricate high efficiency ternary OSCs. • High-performance ternary OSCs are fabricated by introducing a non-fullerene acceptor into PM6:Y6 binary system. • IDTP-4F can form an alloy phase with Y6, which results in the enhanced open-circuit voltage ( V oc ) in ternary OSCs. • The optimized ternary OSCs exhibit an excellent PCE of 17.1%, which is much higher than that of PM6:Y6 binary OSCs (15.9%).