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  • Efficient and Stable Flexib...
    Zhang, Ye‐Fan; Ren, Hao; Chen, Jing‐De; Hou, Hong‐Yi; Liu, Hui‐Min; Tian, Shuo; Chen, Wei‐Shuo; Ge, Heng‐Ru; Li, Yan‐Qing; Mao, Hongying; Su, Zisheng; Tang, Jian‐Xin

    Advanced functional materials, 05/2023, Volume: 33, Issue: 18
    Journal Article

    Heating is a knotty factor contributing to device degradation of flexible organic solar cells (FOSCs), and thermal regulation plays a crucial role in the realization of long operational lifetime. Herein, a passive cooling strategy for stable FOSCs is proposed by boosting the optical‐thermal radiative transfer to reduce the insufficient thermal dissipation and the elevated temperature caused by irradiation‐induced heating, while retaining their flexibility and portability. A spectrally selective coupling structure consisting of subwavelength hemisphere pattern and distributed Bragg reflector is integrated into FOSCs to collectively enhance out‐coupling of infrared radiation and limit near‐infrared absorption‐induced heat generation, leading to a reduced heat power intensity of 292.5 W cm−2 and the decreased working temperature by 9.6 °C under outdoor sunlight irradiation. The D18:Y6:PC71BM‐based FOSCs achieve a power conversion efficiency of over 17% with a prolonged T80 lifetime as long as one year under real outdoor working conditions. These results represent a new opportunity for enhancing the operational stability of FOSCs. A spectrally selective coupling structure is integrated into flexible organic solar cells to boost the optical‐thermal radiative transfer in infrared region. The optimized device with efficiency over 17% obtains a 9.6 °C decrease in working temperature under outdoor sunlight irradiation, which prolongs T80 lifetime by over 3 times to as long as one year.