Cyano-substitution on the end-capping group: facile access toward asymmetrical squaraine showing strong dipole–dipole interactions as a high performance small molecular organic solar cells material

2015 ◽  
Vol 3 (34) ◽  
pp. 17704-17712 ◽  
Author(s):  
Daobin Yang ◽  
Yan Jiao ◽  
Lin Yang ◽  
Yao Chen ◽  
Satoshi Mizoi ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Solar Cells ◽  
Organic Solar Cells ◽  
High Performance ◽  
Dipole Interactions ◽  
End Capping ◽  
Strong Dipole

Cyano-substituted asymmetrical squaraines for organic solar cells with a high PCE was synthesized.

scholarly journals Nonfullerene Small-Molecule Acceptors with Extended Optical Absorption Based on the “Spliced” Strategy for Organic Solar Cells

2019 ◽  
Vol 01 (01) ◽  
pp. 071-077
Author(s):  
Di Zhou ◽  
Zhilin Liu ◽  
Dangqiang Zhu ◽  
Xiyue Yuan ◽  
Xichang Bao ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Solar Cells ◽  
Optical Absorption ◽  
Band Gap ◽  
Small Molecule ◽  
Organic Solar Cells ◽  
High Performance ◽  
Photovoltaic Performance ◽  
Wide Band ◽  
End Capping ◽  
New Perspective

How to broaden the optical absorption of photovoltaic materials is one of the key issues in the design of high-performance organic solar cells. Nowadays, the sunlight of 400–550 nm wavelength range is not effectively utilized for most small-molecule nonfullerene acceptors. In this work, we proposed the “spliced” strategy of combining the acceptor–donor–acceptor type narrow band-gap small molecules and wide-band-gap perylene diimide (PDI) moieties via a flexible alkyl chain linkage, which could give the superposition effect of the absorption spectra, and three small-molecule acceptors (S1, S2, and S3) were designed based on various end-capping groups with different electron withdrawing abilities. Encouragingly, the as-constructed molecules can well make use of 400–550 nm sunlight with two independent absorption regions. Meanwhile, the aggregation of S1 with a highly planar end-capping group was dominated by both the PDI unit and main skeleton, while S2 and S3 exhibited PDI-controlled aggregation. When fabricated into organic solar cells, S1-based devices achieved a superior efficiency of 3.41% in comparison with those of the other two. The poor photovoltaic performance could be attributed to severe PDI aggregation, which can hinder the charge transfer through the main skeletons. This work could provide a new perspective to modulate optical absorption through the spliced strategy.

High-Performance and Low-Energy Loss Organic Solar Cells with Non-fused Ring Acceptor by Alkyl Chain Engineering

2021 ◽  
pp. 129768
Author(s):  
Dou Luo ◽  
Xue Lai ◽  
Nan Zheng ◽  
Chenghao Duan ◽  
Zhaojin Wang ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Solar Cells ◽  
Energy Loss ◽  
Organic Solar Cells ◽  
High Performance ◽  
Alkyl Chain ◽  
Low Energy ◽  
Fused Ring

A Facile Synthesized Polymer Featuring B‐N Covalent Bond and Small Singlet‐Triplet Gap for High‐Performance Organic Solar Cells

2021 ◽  
Vol 60 (16) ◽  
pp. 8813-8817
Author(s):  
Shuting Pang ◽  
Zhiqiang Wang ◽  
Xiyue Yuan ◽  
Langheng Pan ◽  
Wanyuan Deng ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Solar Cells ◽  
Organic Solar Cells ◽  
High Performance ◽  
Covalent Bond

scholarly journals High performance tandem organic solar cells via a strongly infrared-absorbing narrow bandgap acceptor

2021 ◽  
Vol 12 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Zhenrong Jia ◽  
Shucheng Qin ◽  
Lei Meng ◽  
Qing Ma ◽  
Indunil Angunawela ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Solar Cells ◽  
Power Conversion Efficiency ◽  
Conversion Efficiency ◽  
Organic Solar Cells ◽  
High Performance ◽  
Short Circuit ◽  
Power Conversion ◽  
High Power Conversion Efficiency ◽  
Device Structure ◽  
Narrow Bandgap

AbstractTandem organic solar cells are based on the device structure monolithically connecting two solar cells to broaden overall absorption spectrum and utilize the photon energy more efficiently. Herein, we demonstrate a simple strategy of inserting a double bond between the central core and end groups of the small molecule acceptor Y6 to extend its conjugation length and absorption range. As a result, a new narrow bandgap acceptor BTPV-4F was synthesized with an optical bandgap of 1.21 eV. The single-junction devices based on BTPV-4F as acceptor achieved a power conversion efficiency of over 13.4% with a high short-circuit current density of 28.9 mA cm−2. With adopting BTPV-4F as the rear cell acceptor material, the resulting tandem devices reached a high power conversion efficiency of over 16.4% with good photostability. The results indicate that BTPV-4F is an efficient infrared-absorbing narrow bandgap acceptor and has great potential to be applied into tandem organic solar cells.

Alcohol-soluble fluorene derivate functionalized with pyridyl groups as a high-performance cathode interfacial material in organic solar cells

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lin Lin ◽  
Zeping Huang ◽  
Yuanqi Luo ◽  
Tingen Peng ◽  
Baitian He ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Solar Cells ◽  
Organic Photovoltaics ◽  
Organic Solar Cells ◽  
High Performance ◽  
Fluorene Derivative ◽  
Interfacial Material ◽  
Cathode Interlayer

The synthesis and application as a cathode interlayer in organic photovoltaics of a fluorene derivative with pyridyl functional chains are presented.

Fullerene/Non-fullerene Alloy for High-Performance All-Small-Molecule Organic Solar Cells

2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (5) ◽  
pp. 6461-6469
Author(s):  
María Privado ◽  
Fernando G. Guijarro ◽  
Pilar de la Cruz ◽  
Rahul Singhal ◽  
Fernando Langa ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Solar Cells ◽  
Small Molecule ◽  
Organic Solar Cells ◽  
High Performance

Fused Perylenediimide Dimer as Nonfullerene Acceptor for High-Performance Organic Solar Cells

2021 ◽  
pp. 109269
Author(s):  
Xinyue Cui ◽  
Muhammad Bilal Ahmed Qureshi ◽  
Hao Lu ◽  
Hang Wang ◽  
Yahui Liu ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Solar Cells ◽  
Organic Solar Cells ◽  
High Performance ◽  
Nonfullerene Acceptor
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