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Hyunbok Lee1, Sun Woo Ahn, Sim Hee Ryu
1Department of Physics, Kangwon National University, 1 Gangwondaehak-gil, Chuncheon-si, Gaongwon-do 24341, Republic of Korea.
Abstract:
In organic photovoltaics (OPVs), determining the energy-level alignment of a donor and an acceptor is particularly important since the interfacial energy gap between the highest occupied molecular orbital (HOMO) level of a donor and the lowest unoccupied molecular orbital (LUMO) level of an acceptor (E-E) gives the theoretical maximum value of the open-circuit voltage (VOC). To increase the E-E, non-fullerene acceptors, which have a lower electron affinity (EA) than C60, are receiving increasing attention. In this study, we investigated the energy-level alignment at the interface of a boron chloride subphthalocyanine (SubPc) donor and a halogenated SubPc (Cl6SubPc) acceptor using soft X-ray spectroscopy techniques. The estimated E-E of Cl6SubPc/SubPc was 1.95 eV, which was significantly higher than that of 1.51 eV found at the interface of C60/SubPc. This increased E-E was the origin of the enhanced VOC in OPVs. Additionally, we studied the molecular orientation of Cl6SubPc using angle-dependent X-ray absorption spectroscopy. The highly disordered Cl6SubPc molecules result in low carrier mobility, which contributes to the lower short-circuit current density of the Cl6SubPc acceptor OPVs than the C60 acceptor OPVs.
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