Colorful Semitransparent Organic Photovoltaics with Record Key Parameters by Optimizing Photon Utilization and Fabry‐Pérot Resonator Electrode

• Published in: Advanced optical materials 2024-04, Vol.12 (10), p.n/a
• Main Authors: Xu, Chunyu, Zhao, Zijin, Kan, Lixuan, Tao, Sheng, Ma, Xiaoling, Zhu, Xixiang, Wang, Kai, Zhang, Jian, Li, Junming, Zhang, Fujun
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Subjects: colorful semitransparent organic photovoltaics; Energy conversion efficiency; Fabry‐Pérot resonator electrode; Fixing; Optimization; optimizing photon utilization; Photons; Photovoltaic cells; power conversion efficiency; Resonators; Thickness; Transmittance
• ISSN: 2195-1071; 2195-1071
• DOI: 10.1002/adom.202302285

Donor PM6 and acceptor L8‐BO are employed to build semitransparent organic photovoltaics (ST‐OPVs). Opaque OPVs are fabricated by tuning the spin‐coating speed of PM6:L8‐BO solution to optimize the photon utilization by balancing photon harvesting and photogenerated carrier collection. The optimal opaque OPVs exhibit relatively high fill‐factor (FF) of 77.58% and power conversion efficiency (PCE) of 15.07%, the average visible transmittance (AVT) of corresponding PM6:L8‐BO films arrives to 53.25%, indicating great potential in realizing efficient ST‐OPVs. ST‐OPVs are built with 1 nm Au/(10, 15, 20, 25 nm) Ag as cathode, exhibiting the PCE/AVT of 11.53%/22.57%, 13.20%/14.24%, 14.28%/9.34%, and 14.71%/6.77%, respectively. Colorful ST‐OPVs are achieved by coupling different Ag/LiF/Ag Fabry‐Pérot (F‐P) resonator microcavity. Green ST‐OPVs with varied color coordinates are achieved by fixing LiF layer thickness as 110 nm and varying Ag layers′ thickness, originating from the adjusted transmittance spectra of green ST‐OPVs. Upon fixing Ag layers′ thickness as 15/25 nm and varying LiF layer thickness as 90, 110, and 145 nm, ST‐OPVs present colors of blue, green, and red with corresponding transmittance peak at 474, 553, and 657 nm. The corresponding PCE/peak transmittance (Tpeak) values arrive to 13.80%/37.8%, 13.31%/28.4%, and 13.20%/27.7%, which should be the best performance among reported colorful ST‐OPVs. Blue, green, and red ST‐OPVs based on PM6:L8‐BO active layer are achieved by employing different Ag/LiF/Ag Fabry‐Pérot resonator electrodes. The power conversion efficiency (PCE)/peak transmittance (Tpeak) values of the blue, green, and red ST‐OPVs are individually 13.80%/37.8%, 13.31%/28.4%, and 13.20%/27.7% by optimizing photon utilization and Fabry‐Pérot resonator electrode, which are among the best performance of reported colorful ST‐OPVs.