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  • Materials Science
  • Renewable Energy
  • Organic Electronics

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  • Semi-transparent organic solar cells (ST-OSCs) face a trade-off between transparency and efficiency, limiting their use in building-integrated photovoltaics.
  • Low-donor-content devices often suffer efficiency losses that must be mitigated while maintaining high transparency.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To overcome the transparency-efficiency trade-off in ST-OSCs.
  • To implement a dual-channel photoelectric conversion strategy for improved device performance.
  • To demonstrate the general applicability of this strategy across different material systems.

Main Methods:

  • Optimized dual-channel photoelectric conversion by integrating heterojunction (HJ) and spontaneously formed photo-charge (SP) channels.
  • Employed strategic acceptor selection and dual-additive-assisted morphology control.
  • Investigated PTB7-Th:BTP-eC9 and PM6:BTP-eC9 based ST-OSCs.

Main Results:

  • The HJ channel governs hole transport and fill factor; the SP channel is crucial for charge generation and short-circuit current density.
  • Achieved 11.3% power conversion efficiency in PTB7-Th:BTP-eC9 (1:4) devices, surpassing BHJ counterparts (10.4%) with >65% transparency.
  • Demonstrated competitive light utilization efficiency of 4.67% in PM6:BTP-eC9 (1:3) based ST-OSCs.

Conclusions:

  • Dual-channel photoelectric conversion is vital for high-performance ST-OSCs.
  • The developed strategy effectively minimizes electrical losses and enhances efficiency without compromising transparency.
  • The approach is generalizable across different active layer systems for ST-OSC applications.