2022-05-17 スウェーデン・リンショーピング大学
＜関連情報＞
- https://liu.se/en/news-item/nytt-ljus-over-organiska-solceller
- https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-022-29702-w
非フラーレン系有機太陽電池のドナー／アクセプター界面におけるエネルギー準位整列のマッピング Mapping the energy level alignment at donor/acceptor interfaces in non-fullerene organic solar cells
Xian’e Li,Qilun Zhang,Jianwei Yu,Ye Xu,Rui Zhang,Chuanfei Wang,Huotian Zhang,Simone Fabiano,Xianjie Liu,Jianhui Hou,Feng Gao & Mats Fahlman
Nature Communications Published: 19 April 2022
DOI:https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-022-29702-w
Abstract
Energy level alignment (ELA) at donor (D) -acceptor (A) heterojunctions is essential for understanding the charge generation and recombination process in organic photovoltaic devices. However, the ELA at the D-A interfaces is largely underdetermined, resulting in debates on the fundamental operating mechanisms of high-efficiency non-fullerene organic solar cells. Here, we systematically investigate ELA and its depth-dependent variation of a range of donor/non-fullerene-acceptor interfaces by fabricating and characterizing D-A quasi bilayers and planar bilayers. In contrast to previous assumptions, we observe significant vacuum level (VL) shifts existing at the D-A interfaces, which are demonstrated to be abrupt, extending over only 1–2 layers at the heterojunctions, and are attributed to interface dipoles induced by D-A electrostatic potential differences. The VL shifts result in reduced interfacial energetic offsets and increased charge transfer (CT) state energies which reconcile the conflicting observations of large energy level offsets inferred from neat films and large CT energies of donor – non-fullerene-acceptor systems.
