Fluorinated oligothiophene donors for high-performance nonfullerene small-molecule organic solar cells

2020 ◽  
Vol 4 (6) ◽  
pp. 2680-2685 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tongle Xu ◽  
Yuying Chang ◽  
Cenqi Yan ◽  
Qianguang Yang ◽  
Zhipeng Kan ◽  
...  

Two oligothiophenes were synthesized and used as electron donors in organic solar cells. The devices with a fluorinated donor (2FDC5T) achieved power conversion efficiencies of up to ca. 9.02% (vs. ca. 7.03% for the non-halogenated donor DC5T).

Nanoscale ◽  
2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Congcong Zhao ◽  
Jiuxing Wang ◽  
Xuanyi Zhao ◽  
Zhonglin Du ◽  
Renqiang Yang ◽  
...  

The past decade has seen a tremendous development of organic solar cells (OSCs). To date, the high-performance OSCs have boosted the power conversion efficiencies (PCEs) over 17%, showing bright prospects...


2019 ◽  
Vol 01 (01) ◽  
pp. 030-037 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jianyun Zhang ◽  
Wenrui Liu ◽  
Shengjie Xu ◽  
Xiaozhang Zhu

Recently, by elaborately designing nonfullerene acceptors and selecting suitable polymer donors great progresses have been made towards binary organic solar cells (OSCs) with power conversion efficiencies (PCEs) over 15%. Ternary organic photovoltaics by introducing a third component into the host binary system is recognized to be highly effective to elevate the performance through extending the light absorption, manipulating the recombination behavior of the carriers, and improving the morphology of the active layer. In this work, we synthesized a new electron-acceptor ZITI-4F matching it with the wide-bandgap polymer donor PBDB-T The PBDB-T:ZITI-4F-based OSC showed a high PCE of 12.33%. After introducing 40% of PC71BM as the third component, the ternary device achieved an improved PCE of 13.40% with simultaneously improved photovoltaic parameters. The higher performance of the ternary device can be attributed to the improved and more balanced charge mobility, reduced bimolecular recombination, and more favorable morphology. These results indicate that the cooperation of a fullerene-based acceptor and a nonfullerene acceptor to fabricate ternary OSCs is an effective approach to optimizing morphology and therefore to increase the performance of OSCs.


2017 ◽  
Vol 5 (6) ◽  
pp. 1275-1302 ◽  
Author(s):  
Wangqiao Chen ◽  
Qichun Zhang

The power conversion efficiencies (PCEs) of non-fullerene small molecule acceptors based on different donors have been compared and summarized.


2020 ◽  
Vol 8 (12) ◽  
pp. 5843-5847 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tainan Duan ◽  
Jie Gao ◽  
Tongle Xu ◽  
Zhipeng Kan ◽  
Wenjing Chen ◽  
...  

A set of centrally halogenated oligothiophenes were developed for organic solar cells. The devices with a chlorinated donor (2Cl7T) achieved power conversion efficiencies (PCEs) of up to ca. 11.5% (vs. ca. 2.5% for non-halogenated donor DRCN7T).


2020 ◽  
Vol 4 (12) ◽  
pp. 6203-6211
Author(s):  
Yu Chen ◽  
Rui Cao ◽  
Hui Liu ◽  
M. L. Keshtov ◽  
Emmanuel N. Koukaras ◽  
...  

In order to increase the power conversion efficiency (PCE) of organic solar cells, developing high-performance non-fullerene small molecule acceptors is important for efficient charge generation and small energy loss.


2018 ◽  
Vol 6 (47) ◽  
pp. 24210-24215 ◽  
Author(s):  
Peiyao Xue ◽  
Yiqun Xiao ◽  
Tengfei Li ◽  
Shuixing Dai ◽  
Boyu Jia ◽  
...  

Panchromatic ternary organic solar cells with photoresponses beyond 1000 nm and power conversion efficiencies as high as 12.1% were fabricated using low-bandgap polymer PTB7-Th as a donor and ultra low-bandgap F8IC and mid-bandgap IDT-2BR as nonfullerene acceptors.


2019 ◽  
Vol 3 (3) ◽  
pp. 399-402 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yaxin Gao ◽  
Dan Li ◽  
Zuo Xiao ◽  
Xin Qian ◽  
Junliang Yang ◽  
...  

Dithieno[3,2-b:2′,3′-d]pyridin-5(4H)-one-based wide-bandgap copolymers gave high open-circuit voltages and decent power conversion efficiencies in nonfullerene organic solar cells.


2014 ◽  
Vol 2014 ◽  
pp. 1-6 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michal Radziwon ◽  
André Luis Fernandes Cauduro ◽  
Morten Madsen ◽  
Horst-Günter Rubahn

Recent efforts in research and development of small molecule based organic solar cells have led to power conversion efficiencies exceeding 10%. Understanding the incorporated interfaces in these devices is an utterly important parameter for their improvement. Here we investigate the influence ofα-sexithiophene (α-6T) nanostructures on the performance parameters ofα-6T/C60inverted bilayer solar cells. Byin situcontrolled growth, crystallineα-6T nanostructures are formed in the devices and a correlation between the morphology of the structures and the device performance is presented. Under certain, well-defined circumstances, we observe an efficiency increase of around 100% when implementing crystalline nanostructures.


2015 ◽  
Vol 8 (2) ◽  
pp. 520-525 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jingbo Zhao ◽  
Yunke Li ◽  
Haoran Lin ◽  
Yuhang Liu ◽  
Kui Jiang ◽  
...  

Non-fullerene organic solar cells with power conversion efficiencies of up to 6.3% are reported using properly matched donor and acceptor.


Author(s):  
Changkyun Kim ◽  
Shuhao Chen ◽  
Jin Su Park ◽  
Geon-U Kim ◽  
Hyunbum Kang ◽  
...  

While the power conversion efficiencies (PCEs) of organic solar cells (OSCs) have been dramatically increased through the development of small molecular acceptors (SMAs), achieving eco-friendly solution processability of OSCs is...


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