Rui Zeng¹, Lei Zhu¹, Ming Zhang¹, Wenkai Zhong¹, Guanqing Zhou¹, Jiaxing Zhuang¹, Tianyu Hao¹, Zichun Zhou¹, Libo Zhou¹, Nicolai Hartmann², Xiaonan Xue³, Hao Jing³, Fei Han⁴, Yiming Bai⁴, Hongbo Wu⁵, Zheng Tang⁵, Yecheng Zou⁶, Haiming Zhu⁷, Chun-chao Chen⁸, Yongming Zhang¹, Feng Liu^1*

1 School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Frontiers Science Center for Transformative Molecules, In-situ Center for Physical Science, and Center of Hydrogen Science Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai 200240, China.

2 Attocube systems AG, Eglfinger Weg 2, Haar 85540, Germany.

3 Shanghai OPV Solar New Energy Technology Co., Ltd., Shanghai 201210, China.

4 State Key Laboratory of Alternate Electrical Power System with Renewable Energy Sources, North China Electric Power University, Beijing 102206, China.

5 Center for Advanced Low-dimension Materials, State Key Laboratory for Modification of Chemical Fibers and Polymer Materials, College of Materials Science and Engineering Donghua University, Shanghai 201620, China

6 State Key Laboratory of Fluorinated Functional Membrane Materials and Dongyue Future Hydrogen Energy Materials Company, Zibo City, Shandong 256401, China.

7 Department of Chemistry, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, Zhejiang 310027, China.

8 School of Materials Science and Engineering, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai 200240, China.

* Corresponding authors emails: fengliu82@sjtu.edu.cn

DOI10.24435/materialscloud:g4-jw [version v1]

Publication date: Jun 07, 2023

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Rui Zeng, Lei Zhu, Ming Zhang, Wenkai Zhong, Guanqing Zhou, Jiaxing Zhuang, Tianyu Hao, Zichun Zhou, Libo Zhou, Nicolai Hartmann, Xiaonan Xue, Hao Jing, Fei Han, Yiming Bai, Hongbo Wu, Zheng Tang, Yecheng Zou, Haiming Zhu, Chun-chao Chen, Yongming Zhang, Feng Liu, All-polymer organic solar cells with nano-to-micron hierarchical morphology and large light receiving angle, Materials Cloud Archive 2023.89 (2023), doi: 10.24435/materialscloud:g4-jw.

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Distributed photovoltaics in living environment harvest the sunlight in different incident angles throughout the day. The development of planer solar cells with large light-receiving angle can reduce the requirements in installation form factor and is therefore urgently required. Here, thin film organic photovoltaics with nano-sized phase separation integrated in micro-sized surface topology is demonstrated as an ideal solution to proposed applications. All-polymer solar cells, by means of a newly developed sequential processing, show large magnitude hierarchical morphology with facilitated exciton-to-carrier conversion. The nano fibrilar donor-acceptor network and micron-scale optical field trapping structure in combination contributes to an efficiency of 19.06% (certified 18.59%), which is the highest value to date for all-polymer solar cells. Furthermore, the micron-sized surface topology also contributes to a large light-receiving angle. A 30% improvement of power gain is achieved for the hierarchical morphology comparing to the flat-morphology devices. These inspiring results show that all-polymer solar cell with hierarchical features are particularly suitable for the commercial applications of distributed photovoltaics due to its low installation requirement.

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Figure3.xlsx MD5md5:5627be8d5fe0d4a3d536b2678445f0c0	126.5 KiB	The data of nanoscale fibril crystallization morphology characteristics for all polymer solar cells.
Figure4.xlsx MD5md5:535941bc86bb3a3231ddfc01a8fcd6c4	19.3 KiB	The performance comparison for all polymer solar cells at different light receiving angle based on microscale surface optical morphology.
Figure5.xlsx MD5md5:d546e32136be8079502884c15943f1f1	121.3 KiB	Dissociation and recombination dynamics results based on ultrafast process and devices physical characteristics.
Table 1.xlsx MD5md5:2c26dd4f98b3ddc0c5bc4ccf7b73387d	14.3 KiB	Specific performance parameters in different preparation conditions based on all polymer solar cells.
Supplementary Table.xlsx MD5md5:cda177f998f4a98285a049c3344ff817	65.7 KiB	Specific parameters for morphology characterization and device characterization in Supplementary Tables.
Supplementary Figure.xlsx MD5md5:9a5d465786cb2182e13f59e952b813de	410.9 KiB	Other relevant data in Supplementary Figures.

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organic solar cells all-polymer solar cell surface topology