Highly Efficient Organic Solar Cells Consisting of Double Bulk Heterojunction Layers

Abstract

An organic solar cell (OSCs) containing double bulk heterojunction (BHJ) layers, namely, double-BHJ OSCs is constructed via stamp transferring of low bandgap BHJ atop of mediate bandgap active layers. Such devices allow a large gain in photocurrent to be obtained due to enhanced photoharvest, without suffering much from the fill factor drop usually seen in thick-layer-based devices. Overall, double-BHJ OSC with optimal ≈50 nm near-infrared PDPP3T:PC₇₁ BM layer atop of ≈200 nm PTB7-Th:PC₇₁ BM BHJ results in high power conversion efficiencies over 12%.