Green solvent-processed organic solar cells based on a low cost polymer donor and a small molecule acceptor

2020 ◽  
Vol 8 (23) ◽  
pp. 7718-7724
Author(s):  
He Huang ◽  
Xiaojun Li ◽  
Chenkai Sun ◽  
Indunil Angunawela ◽  
Beibei Qiu ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Solar Cells ◽  
Small Molecule ◽  
Organic Solar Cells ◽  
High Performance ◽  
Low Cost ◽  
Green Solvent

High-performance OSCs were fabricated based on polymer PTQ10 as donor and HO-IDIC-2F as acceptor, using non-halogen tetrahydrofuran as processing solvent and the PCE of the as-cast OSCs reached 12.20% which is competitive with regular chloroform.

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

scholarly journals Molecular design revitalizes the low-cost PTV-polymer for highly efficient organic solar cells

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Junzhen Ren ◽  
Pengqing Bi ◽  
Jianqi Zhang ◽  
Jiao Liu ◽  
Jingwen Wang ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Solar Cells ◽  
Organic Solar Cells ◽  
High Performance ◽  
Molecular Design ◽  
Raw Materials ◽  
Low Cost ◽  
Stable Conformation ◽  
Chemical Structures ◽  
Aggregation Effect ◽  
Industrialization Process

Abstract Developing photovoltaic materials with simple chemical structures and easy synthesis still remains a major challenge in the industrialization process of organic solar cells (OSCs). Herein, an ester substituted poly(thiophene vinylene) derivative, PTVT-T, was designed and synthesized in very few steps by adopting commercially available raw materials. The ester groups on the thiophene units enable PTVT-T to have a planar and stable conformation. Moreover, PTVT-T presents a wide absorption band and strong aggregation effect in solution, which are the key characteristics needed to realize high performance in non-fullerene-acceptor (NFA)-based OSCs. We then prepared OSCs by blending PTVT-T with three representative fullerene- and NF-based acceptors, PC71BM, IT-4F and BTP-eC9. It was found that PTVT-T can work well with all the acceptors, showing great potential to match new emerging NFAs. Particularly, a remarkable power conversion efficiency of 16.20% is achieved in a PTVT-T:BTP-eC9-based device, which is the highest value among the counterparts based on PTV derivatives. This work demonstrates that PTVT-T shows great potential for the future commercialization of OSCs.

15.71% Efficiency All‐Small‐Molecule Organic Solar Cells Based on Low‐Cost Synthesized Donor Molecules

2021 ◽  
pp. 2110159
Author(s):  
Jing Guo ◽  
Beibei Qiu ◽  
Dengchen Yang ◽  
Can Zhu ◽  
Liuyang Zhou ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Solar Cells ◽  
Small Molecule ◽  
Organic Solar Cells ◽  
Low Cost

High-performance organic solar cells based on a small molecule with thieno[3,2-b]thiophene as π-bridge

2018 ◽  
Vol 53 ◽  
pp. 273-279 ◽  
Author(s):  
Chennan Ye ◽  
Yan Wang ◽  
Zhaozhao Bi ◽  
Xia Guo ◽  
Qunping Fan ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Solar Cells ◽  
Small Molecule ◽  
Organic Solar Cells ◽  
High Performance

scholarly journals Donor Derivative Incorporation: An Effective Strategy toward High Performance All‐Small‐Molecule Ternary Organic Solar Cells

2019 ◽  
Vol 6 (21) ◽  
pp. 1901613 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hua Tang ◽  
Tongle Xu ◽  
Cenqi Yan ◽  
Jie Gao ◽  
Hang Yin ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Solar Cells ◽  
Small Molecule ◽  
Organic Solar Cells ◽  
High Performance ◽  
Effective Strategy

scholarly journals With PBDB-T as the Donor, the PCE of Non-Fullerene Organic Solar Cells Based on Small Molecule INTIC Increased by 52.4%

Materials ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 13 (6) ◽  
pp. 1324 ◽  
Author(s):  
Weifang Zhang ◽  
Zicha Li ◽  
Suling Zhao ◽  
Zheng Xu ◽  
Bo Qiao ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Solar Cells ◽  
Small Molecule ◽  
Organic Solar Cells ◽  
High Performance ◽  
Short Circuit ◽  
Photovoltaic Performance ◽  
Short Circuit Current ◽  
Production Costs ◽  
Higher Carrier Mobility ◽  
Carrier Transportation

At present, most high-performance non-fullerene materials are centered on fused rings. With the increase in the number of fused rings, production costs and production difficulties increase. Compared with other non-fullerenes, small molecule INTIC has the advantages of easy synthesis and strong and wide infrared absorption. According to our previous report, the maximum power conversion efficiency (PCE) of an organic solar cell using PTB7-Th:INTIC as the active layer was 7.27%. In this work, other polymers, PTB7, PBDB-T and PBDB-T-2F, as the donor materials, with INTIC as the acceptor, are selected to fabricate cells with the same structure to optimize their photovoltaic performance. The experimental results show that the optimal PCE of PBDB-T:INTIC based organic solar cells is 11.08%, which, thanks to the open voltage (VOC) increases from 0.80 V to 0.84 V, the short circuit current (JSC) increases from 15.32 mA/cm2 to 19.42 mA/cm2 and the fill factor (FF) increases from 60.08% to 67.89%, then a 52.4% improvement in PCE is the result, compared with the devices based on PTB7-Th:INTIC. This is because the PBDB-T:INTIC system has better carrier dissociation and extraction, carrier transportation and higher carrier mobility.

scholarly journals All-small-molecule organic solar cells with over 14% efficiency by optimizing hierarchical morphologies

2019 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Ruimin Zhou ◽  
Zhaoyan Jiang ◽  
Chen Yang ◽  
Jianwei Yu ◽  
Jirui Feng ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Solar Cells ◽  
Small Molecule ◽  
Organic Solar Cells ◽  
High Performance ◽  
High Efficiency ◽  
Bulk Heterojunction ◽  
Photovoltaic Performance ◽  
Photovoltaic System ◽  
Active Layers ◽  
Donor Acceptor

AbstractThe high efficiency all-small-molecule organic solar cells (OSCs) normally require optimized morphology in their bulk heterojunction active layers. Herein, a small-molecule donor is designed and synthesized, and single-crystal structural analyses reveal its explicit molecular planarity and compact intermolecular packing. A promising narrow bandgap small-molecule with absorption edge of more than 930 nm along with our home-designed small molecule is selected as electron acceptors. To the best of our knowledge, the binary all-small-molecule OSCs achieve the highest efficiency of 14.34% by optimizing their hierarchical morphologies, in which the donor or acceptor rich domains with size up to ca. 70 nm, and the donor crystals of tens of nanometers, together with the donor-acceptor blending, are proved coexisting in the hierarchical large domain. All-small-molecule photovoltaic system shows its promising for high performance OSCs, and our study is likely to lead to insights in relations between bulk heterojunction structure and photovoltaic performance.

Asymmetrical side-chain engineering of small-molecule acceptors enable high-performance nonfullerene organic solar cells

Nano Energy ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 67 ◽  
pp. 104209 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bin Kan ◽  
Xuebin Chen ◽  
Ke Gao ◽  
Ming Zhang ◽  
Francis Lin ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Solar Cells ◽  
Small Molecule ◽  
Organic Solar Cells ◽  
High Performance ◽  
Side Chain

A small molecule with selenophene as the central block for high performance solution-processed organic solar cells

2015 ◽  
Vol 19 ◽  
pp. 98-104 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yi Zuo ◽  
Qiang Zhang ◽  
Xiangjian Wan ◽  
Miaomiao Li ◽  
Huijing Zhang ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Solar Cells ◽  
Small Molecule ◽  
Organic Solar Cells ◽  
High Performance ◽  
Solution Processed ◽  
Central Block
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