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This work proposes a synergistic dilution strategy to suppress traps of transport and active layers, restrain static, and dynamic disorder, to fabricate efficient and stable thick?film OSCs. It mitigates dynamic disorder through electron?phonon coupling suppression and static disorder via molecular stacking enhancement, ensuring practicality and cost?effectiveness for large?scale use.Developing stable and highly efficient thick?film organic solar cells (OSCs) is crucial for the large?scale commercial application of organic photovoltaics. A novel synergistic dilution strategy to address this issue, using Polymethyl Methacrylate (PMMA) ?modified zinc oxide (ZnO) as the interfacial layer, is introduced. This strategy effectively mitigates oxygen defects in ZnO while also regulating the self?assembly process of the active layer to achieve an ordered distribution of donors and acceptors. In synergistic diluted devices, the dynamic disorder is reduced owing to the suppression of electron?phonon coupling, while the static disorder is suppressed by improved molecular stacking and enhanced intermolecular interactions. Consequently, the 300 nm PM6:L8?BO device post?synergistic dilution manifests a marked enhancement in device performance, achieving a photovoltaic power conversion efficiency (PCE) >17% with excellent thermal stability. A typical ternary system is selected to explore the general applicability of synergistic dilution strategy, the PCE has been enhanced significantly from 17.89% to 18.72%, which falls within the range of the highest values among inverted single junction OSCs. As a practical application that depends on the pivotal synergy between high efficiency and stability, this approach paves the way for large?scale implementation of OSCs and ensures cost?effectiveness.

» Publication Date: 28/10/2024

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