Indacenodithienothiophene-Based Ternary Organic Solar Cells: Concept, Devices and Optoelectronic AnalysisNicola Gasparini 1, Amaranda García-Rodríguez 2, Athanasios Katsouras 3, Apostolos Avgeropoulos 3, Georgia Pagona 4,5, Vasilis G. Gregoriou 4,5, Christos L. Chochos 3,4, Sybille Allard 2, Ulrich Scherf 2, Christoph J. Brabec 1,6, Tayebeh Ameri 1
1Institute of Materials for Electronics and Energy Technology (I-MEET), Friedrich-Alexander-University Erlangen-Nuremberg, 2Macromolecular Chemistry Group (buwmakro) and Institute for Polymer Technology, Bergische Universität Wuppertal, 3Department of Materials Science Engineering, University of Ioannina, 4Advent Technologies SA, 5National Hellenic Research Foundation (NHRF), 6Bavarian Center for Applied Energy Research (ZAE Bayern)
In this study, in addition to the synthesis of a novel polymer, we fully characterize a ternary bulk-heterojunction solar cell, with a power conversion efficiency exceeding 4.6%, with the complementary use of optical and electrical techniques.