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The 3 D Structure of Twisted Benzo[ghi]perylene-Triimide Dimer as a Non-Fullerene Acceptor for Inverted Perovskite
Priyadharsini Karuppuswamy1,2,3, Hung-Cheng Chen4, Pen-Cheng Wang2
1Research Center for Applied Sciences, Academia Sinica, Taipei, 11529, Taiwan.
Abstract:
Here, we introduced benzo[ghi]perylenetriimide (BPTI) derivatives including monomer and twisted dimer (t-BPTI) as an alternative electron-transport layer (ETL) material to replace the commonly used PC61 BM in inverted planar heterojunction perovskite solar cells (PSCs). Moreover, the double ETL was applied in our PSCs with structure of glass/ITO/PEDOT:PSS/perovskite/BPTI/C60 or PDI-C4/BCP/Al. The use of a double ETL structure can effectively eliminate the leakage current. The devices with the t-BPTI/C60 double ETL yield an average power conversion efficiency of 10.73 % and a maximum efficiency of 11.63 %. The device based on the complete non-fullerene electron acceptors of t-BPTI/PDI-C4 as double ETL achieved maximum efficiency of 10.0 %. Moreover, it was found that the utilization of alloy t-BPTI+BPTI as ETL can effectively reduce the hysteresis effect of PSCs. The results suggest that BPTI-based electron-transport materials are potential alternatives for widely used fullerene acceptors in PSCs.
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