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  • Physical Chemistry
  • Organic Electronics

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  • Ternary strategy enhances organic solar cell (OSC) power conversion efficiency (PCE).
  • The precise role of the third component in morphology and charge transfer is not fully understood.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To elucidate the function of PC71BM as a third component in PM6/L8-BO blend OSCs.
  • To investigate how PC71BM influences active layer morphology and charge transfer dynamics.

Main Methods:

  • Multiscale computational framework.
  • First-principles calculations.
  • Molecular dynamics (MD) and kinetic Monte Carlo (KMC) simulations.

Main Results:

  • PC71BM localizes at the PM6/L8-BO interface, forming a high-energy charge transfer (H-CT) state.
  • A new high-efficiency pathway for exciton dissociation via H-CT significantly increases charge separation rate.
  • PC71BM improves electron and hole mobilities and ambipolar transport, reducing recombination.

Conclusions:

  • PC71BM plays a dual role in optimizing interfacial charge-transfer kinetics and bulk carrier transport.
  • Findings provide guidelines for designing third components in high-performance ternary OSCs.