Transparent and Conductive Polyimide-Ionene Hybrid Interlayers for High Performance and Cost-Effective Semitransparent Organic Solar Cells

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Veröffentlicht in:Advanced materials (Deerfield Beach, Fla.). - 1998. - 37(2025), 15 vom: 04. Apr., Seite e2500450
1. Verfasser: You, Zuhao (VerfasserIn)
Weitere Verfasser: Wen, Junjie, Liu, Wenxu, Fink, Zachary, Wu, Xuefei, Seong, Hong-Gyu, Wang, Yuxing, Zhang, Lei, Wang, Xu, Russell, Thomas P, Liu, Yao
Format: Online-Aufsatz
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: 2025
Zugriff auf das übergeordnete Werk:Advanced materials (Deerfield Beach, Fla.)
Schlagworte:Journal Article conductivity interlayers organic solar cells polyimide‐ionene hybrids transparency
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Zusammenfassung:© 2025 Wiley‐VCH GmbH.
The contradiction between high transmittance and favorable conductivity poses a great challenge in developing effective cathode interlayer (CIL) materials with sufficient thickness tolerance, which hinders the further advancement of organic solar cells (OSCs). Herein, a completely new class of alcohol processable polyimide-ionene hybrids (PIIHs) is proposed by melding pyromellitic diimide (PMD) subunits into imidazolium-based ionenes backbone covalently. These PIIHs, named PMD-DI and PMD-PD, boast high transparency, suitable energy levels, and decent conductivity. A higher PMD content endows PMD-PD with improved work function tunability, electrical properties, and crystallinity, enabling PMD-PD as CIL material with excellent thickness-insensitive characteristics, while simultaneously improving device stability significantly. Furthermore, PMD-PD also exhibits good compatibility with various electrodes and active layers, offering solar cell efficiencies of up to 19.91% and 19.29% with Ag and Cu cathodes, respectively. More importantly, the application of PMD-PD can improve the performance of semi-transparent OSCs without losing transmittance, thereby drastically enhancing the light utilization efficiency to 4.04% with an ultrathin, low-cost Cu cathode, that competes with leading optical modulation-free semitransparent OSCs with expensive Ag cathodes. This work opens a pathway to realize transparent and conductive interlayers by strategic molecular design, leading to highly efficient, stable, and cost-effective OSCs suitable for diverse applications
Beschreibung:Date Revised 17.04.2025
published: Print-Electronic
Citation Status PubMed-not-MEDLINE
ISSN:1521-4095
DOI:10.1002/adma.202500450