A Simple and Effective Way of Achieving Highly Efficient and Thermally Stable Bulk-Heterojunction Polymer Solar Cells Using Amorphous Fullerene Derivatives as Electron Acceptor

Abstract

Two amorphous fullerenes, TPA-PCBM and MF-PCBM, have been developed as efficient electron acceptors to induce a highly stable morphology of active layer in polymer photovoltaic devices. The power conversion efficiency (PCE) of devices using both materials show no degradation, even after 10 h annealing at 150 °C.