聚合物太阳能电池材料的研究进展

有机光伏技术为太阳能的有效利用提供了一条重要途径。有机太阳能电池因制造成本低廉、材料质量轻、加工性能好、易于携带等优势而备受关注。提高有机太阳能电池的光电转换效率是目前乃至未来的研究重点。设计和合成适合的窄带隙的共轭聚合物是提高有机太阳能电池光电转化效率的核心。综述了近年来基于窄带隙的共轭聚合物的太阳能电池材料的设计、制备和器件性能研究进展,探讨了目前存在的亟待解决的关键基础问题和未来发展方向。     

石墨烯在有机/聚合物太阳能电池中的应用进展

近年来有机/聚合物太阳能电池得到国内外研究者的广泛关注,但其目前较低的能量转换效率有待进一步提高以满足市场化的需求。本文综述了新型二维电子材料石墨烯及其衍生物在有机/聚合物太阳能电池的受体材料、电极材料、电荷传输材料方面的研究进展,分析了石墨烯功能化的方法以及石墨烯衍生物应用于有机太阳能电池中的性能参数,最后对石墨烯及其衍生物的合成和修饰方法进行展望,以期将来在有机太阳能电池材料中得到更好的应用。     

萘并双噻二唑及其衍生稠环受体在D-A型聚合物太阳能电池给体材料中的应用

聚合物太阳能电池因其质量轻、柔性、可溶液制备成大面积器件等优点受到学术界和产业界的广泛关注。目前,聚合物太阳能电池仍然处于实验室研究阶段,研究重点依然集中在器件效率以及使用寿命的进一步提高上。开发新颖高效的聚合物太阳能电池材料是持续提高电池器件效率的原动力。给体(D)-受体(A)型共轭聚合物材料具有宽的光谱吸收、可调节的能级水平、强的分子内电荷转移过程等特征,成为聚合物太阳能电池材料设计的重要策略之一。众多的给体和受体结构单元已被筛选用来构建高性能的D-A型共轭聚合物光伏材料。其中,萘并双噻二唑及其衍生稠环受体结构单元因其具有刚性的共轭平面、强的吸电子能力等特点,被广泛用于设计高性能的聚合物太阳能电池给体材料。基于此,本文综述了萘并双噻二唑及其衍生稠环受体构筑单元在发展D-A型聚合物给体材料方面的应用,并对该类材料的发展方向和前景提出了展望。     

多功能可交联材料在聚合物太阳能电池中的应用

近年来,可交联材料在有机光电器件领域,尤其是聚合物太阳能电池领域,得到了广泛的应用研究。可交联材料作为活性层中的给体材料或受体材料以及制作有序本体异质结聚合物太阳能电池,可以提高器件的稳定性及光电转化效率。可交联材料应用于聚合物太阳能电池的电子传输层或空穴传输层,可以提高器件的开路电压、转化效率、稳定性等各项性能参数。本文根据可交联材料在聚合物太阳能电池中的功能的不同,详细地描述了可交联材料的官能团种类、处理时间、温度以及引发剂等因素对聚合物太阳能电池光电性能的影响,同时评述了可交联材料应用于聚合物太阳能电池的缓冲层及制作有序本体异质结聚合物太阳能电池的研究进展,最后展望了可交联材料在该领域的发展前景。     

聚合物太阳能电池给体材料研究进展

随着能源和环境问题日益严重,人们日益关注于太阳能的开发和应用。同时,无机太阳能电池因其自身原因而受到限制,聚合物太阳能电池受到更多的关注。在聚合物基的太阳能电池中,给体材料制约着电池效率的提高,其中材料的带隙和能级是影响其性能的主要因素。而通过研究和选取具有合适带隙和能级的给体材料可以有效地调节电池器件的效率。本文介绍了太阳能电池给体材料的设计原则与主要影响因素,并叙述了近年来该领域内的研究进展和以及发展前景。     

高效率窄带隙聚合物太阳能电池材料

太阳能电池能够将太阳能直接转化为电能,是利用太阳能资源的一种非常有效的手段。聚合物太阳能电池因成本低、重量轻、制备方便和可制成柔性器件的优点,已经成为该领域的研究热点之一。基于窄带隙共轭聚合物给体/富勒烯受体复合材料体系制得的太阳能电池的最高转换效率已经达到8.3%,而寻找性能更优异的聚合物给体材料是进一步提高光伏性能的关键因素。本文综述了近几年关于高效率窄带隙聚合物太阳能电池给体材料的研究进展,着重介绍了苯并噻二唑类共聚物、稠环噻吩类共聚物和吡嗪类共聚物等窄带隙聚合物给体材料体系及相应光伏器件的性能,分析了各种材料的优点和不足,并对今后这一领域的发展做了展望。     

共轭聚合物发光和光伏材料研究进展

聚合物光电功能材料与器件因其广阔的应用前景,1990年以年来吸引了世界各国学术界的广泛关注和兴趣.聚合物光电子器件主要包括聚合物电致发光二极管、聚合物场效应晶体管和聚合物太阳能电池等,其使用的关键材料是共轭聚合物光电子材料,包括共轭聚合物发光材料、场效应晶体管材料和光伏材料等.本文主要对共轭聚合物电致发光材料和光伏材料的研究进展进行综述,介绍了这些聚合物材料的种类、结构和性质以及在聚合物电致发光器件和聚合物太阳能电池中的应用.并讨论了当前共轭聚合物光电子材料中的关键科学问题和今后的发展方向.     

苯并噻二唑单元在聚合物光伏材料设计中的应用

聚合物太阳能电池因其易于加工、可制备成柔性器件、材料来源广泛等优点得到材料界和能源界的广泛关注。有机太阳能电池效率的不断提高主要得益于材料的发展和电池器件结构的优化。从材料设计角度考虑,种类众多的给体和受体单元被开发用来构建有机共轭分子,其中,苯并噻二唑单元由于共轭平面较大和吸电子性较强的特性被广泛用于构建高性能的有机太阳能电池材料。基于此,本文首先介绍了苯并二噻吩单元及其衍生物常见的合成方法,随后总结了其在构建聚合物给体方面的应用,最后对其后续发展方向和前景提出了展望。     

有机高分子/无机半导体杂化太阳能电池的发展现状与展望

有机高分子/无机半导体杂化太阳能电池是一类以共轭聚合物和无机半导体材料的复合材料为主要原料制备的太阳能电池。本文详细论述了杂化太阳能电池的工作原理,并根据其工作原理分析了影响杂化太阳能电池效率的影响因素,包括给体材料的选择、异质结形态、光敏层厚度、无机半导体的选择与表面改性及电池的退火处理等,并从各个影响因素的角度对杂化太阳能电池的发展进行了讨论,最后从共轭聚合物的角度对杂化太阳能电池的发展做出了展望,指出想要进一步提高杂化太阳能电池的效率,未来应该在对已知共轭聚合物进行改性或合成新的共轭聚合物上投入更多的精力.     

喷墨打印技术制备聚合物太阳能电池的研究进展

聚合物太阳能电池具有成本低、质量轻、容易制备大尺寸器件等优势,是太阳能电池研究中最为活跃的领域之一。喷墨打印技术作为新的成膜技术,具有材料利用率高、快速、可柔性加工等优点,已被用于聚合物太阳能电池的制备,发展潜力巨大。综述了聚合物太阳能电池、喷墨打印技术和喷墨打印技术制备聚合物太阳能电池的研究进展,同时对聚合物太阳能电...     

聚合物太阳能电池器件热稳定性的研究进展

实现聚合物太阳能电池的商业化应用有两个关键技术因素:能量转换效率和热稳定性。 在近几年里,能量转换效率已经成功突破10%。 与此同时,器件热稳定性的研究也一直在有条不紊的展开。 本文总结了近年来在聚合物太阳能电池光敏层热稳定性的研究进展,详细阐述了提高形貌热稳定性的常用方法,并对器件热稳定性的研究进行了展望。     

Efficient Polymer Solar Cells Based on Solution-processed Vanadium Oxide as Hole-extracting Layer

Here we reported the fabrication of efficient polymer solar cells from regioregular poly（3-hexylthiophene） （P3HT）：fullerene derivative [6,6]-phenyl-C61 butyric acid methyl ester （PC6jBM） mixtures, in which solution- processed vanadium oxide （VOx） was used as a hole-extracting layer （HEL）. The obtained devices exhibited a high power conversion efficiency of 3.96%, and can be enhanced to 4.06% and 4.16%, respectively, when two types of PEDOT：PSS with different conductivities were used in conjunction with the VOx layer. All the VOx-based devices showed a high fill factor （FF） over 70%, which was ascribed to efficient hole extracting efficiency associated with the solution-processed VOx hole-extracting layer. The origins of the improvement were also studied by transmission spectra, atomic force microscope （AFM）, and capacitance-voltage characteristics.     

An Isoindigo‐Based “Double‐Cable” Conjugated Polymer for Single‐ Component Polymer Solar Cells

An isoindigo‐based “double‐cable” conjugated polymer bearing perylene bisimide side units was developed via Stille polymerization for application in single‐component polymer solar cells, in which a power conversion efficiency of 1% with broad photo‐response from 300 nm to 800 nm was achieved. There is no evidence of large phase separation confirmed by AFM images and photoluminescence (PL) spectra. The space charge limit current measurements and light intensity dependence measurements indicate that the low electron mobility and the significant recombination of photogenerated charge carriers in active layer mainly account for the low performance of our solar cells. Our results suggest that these “double‐cable” are promising candidates for use in single‐component polymer solar cells with NIR photoresponse.     

Effect of degradation on electronic properties of polymer solar cells

We present here the effect of degradation on electronic properties of polymer solar cells. Investigations were performed on two types of solar cells based on the bulk‐heterojunction network of poly(3‐hexylthiophene) and phenyl [6,6] C₆₁ butyric acid methyl ester, one with slow degradation whereas other with faster degradation. Samples were prepared in identical conditions with controlled atmosphere, but for faster degradation, one of the samples was exposed to ambient air (rich in O₂ and H₂O molecules) before deposition of top metal electrode. The sample with slow degradation showed linear degradation in short circuit current density (J_sc), whereas the sample with faster degradation exhibited exponential degradation in J_sc. Linear degradation happens due to degradation in the active layer only whereas the exponential degradation is because of through degradation of the solar cell. The effect of degradation is investigated on different diode parameters. Because of different degradation processes in the two samples, the variations in diode parameters with time are different. Copyright © 2013 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.     

喷涂法制备高效率三元体系聚合物太阳能电池

采用喷涂技术制备了能量转化效率为9.06%的三元体系聚合物太阳能电池,该太阳能电池在卷对卷印刷和规模化生产中具有极大的应用潜力。     

Bulk heterojunction polymer solar cells based on binary and ternary blend systems

Polymer solar cells (PSCs) were fabricated using a ternary blend film consisting two conjugated polymers and a soluble fullerene derivative as the donor and acceptor materials, respectively. And, to compare ternary blend system, the single‐component copolymers consisting of the repeating units of each of the copolymers, used in ternary blend solar cells, were designed and synthesized for use as the electron donor materials in binary blend solar cells. We systematically investigated the field‐effect carrier mobilities and the optical, electrochemical, and photovoltaic properties of the copolymers. Under optimized conditions, the binary blend polymer systems showed power conversion efficiencies (PCEs) for the PSCs in the range 3.87–4.16% under AM 1.5 illumination (100 mW cm^?2). All polymers exhibited similar PCEs that did not depend on the ratio of repeating units. The binary blend solar cell containing a single‐component copolymer as the electron donor material performed better than the ternary blend solar cell in this work. © 2011 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. J Polym Sci Part A: Polym Chem, 2011     

Polymer Photovoltaic Cells Based on Polymethacrylate Bearing Semiconducting Side Chains

Polymethacrylate with semiconducting side chains ( P1 ), synthesized by free radical polymerization, was used as a donor material for polymer solar cells. P1 is of high molecular weight (M _n = 82 kg mol⁻¹), good thermal stability, narrow band gap (1.87 eV), and low‐lying HOMO energy level (−5.24 eV). P1 possesses not only the good film‐forming ability of polymers but also the high purity of small organic molecules. Power conversion efficiencies (PCEs) of 0.63% and 1.22% have been obtained for solar cells with M1 :PC₇₁BM and P1 :PC₇₁BM as the active layers, respectively. With PC₆₁BM as the acceptor, PCEs of M1 and P1 based devices decrease to 0.61% and 0.76%, respectively. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first report that free radical polymerization can be used to prepare polymer donors for photovoltaic applications.     

塑料太阳能电池研究进展

塑料太阳能电池是目前国际上比较活跃的研究领域,它具有制备工艺简单、可制备在柔性衬底上、材料的化学结构可调等优点.重点介绍以共轭聚合物-富勒烯衍生物混合物为活性层的体异质结结构塑料太阳能电池研究进展.从活性层薄膜的微观形态结构调控、电极接触界面、光场在电池各层中的空间分布以及叠层结构等几个方面综述了影响塑料太阳能电池效率的因素和提高效率的方法.最后简要介绍了塑料太阳能电池所面临的问题和挑战.     

All-polymer solar cells utilizing low band gap polymers as donor and acceptor

All-polymer solar cells based on blends of the low band gap polymers poly{[4,8-bis[(2-ethylhexyl)oxy]benzo[1,2-b:4,5-b′]dithiophene-2,6-diyl][3-fluoro-2-[(2-ethylhexyl)carbonyl]thieno[3,4-b]thiophenediyl]} (PTB7) and poly{[N,N-9-bis(2-octyldodecyl)-naphthalene-1,4,5,8-bis(dicarboximide)-2,6-diyl]-alt-5,59-(2,29-bithiophene)} (P(NDI2OD-T2)) are demonstrated. The use of the donor polymer PTB7 instead of poly(3-hexylthiophene) results in a higher open-circuit voltage and an overall spectral response better matched to the solar spectrum. A power conversion efficiency of 1.1% is reported with a peak external quantum efficiency of 18% at a wavelength of 680 nm. The microstructure of PTB7:P(NDI2OD-T2) blends is also investigated using a combination of grazing-incidence wide-angle X-ray scattering (GIWAXS), near-edge X-ray fine-structure (NEXAFS) spectroscopy, atomic force microscopy (AFM), and scanning transmission X-ray microscopy (STXM). GIWAXS measurements show that PTB7:P(NDI2OD-T2) blends contain P(NDI2OD-T2) crystallites with a (100) thickness of 9.5 nm dispersed in an amorphous PTB7 matrix. STXM measurements indicate a lack of mesoscale phase separation, with AFM and NEXAFS measurements revealing a P(NDI2OD-T2)-rich top surface with fibrillar morphology. These results indicate that the pairing of low band gap polymers as both donor and acceptor polymers in all-polymer solar cells may be an effective strategy for realizing high-efficiency all-polymer solar cells. © 2012 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. J Polym Sci Part B: Polym Phys, 2013