Efficient Semitransparent Organic Solar Cells with Tunable Color enabled by an Ultralow-Bandgap Nonfullerene AcceptorShow others and affiliations
2017 (English)In: Advanced Materials, ISSN 0935-9648, E-ISSN 1521-4095, Vol. 29, no 43, article id 1703080Article in journal (Refereed) Published
Abstract [en]
Semitransparent organic solar cells (OSCs) show attractive potential in power-generating windows. However, the development of semitransparent OSCs is lagging behind opaque OSCs. Here, an ultralow-bandgap non-fullerene acceptor, "IEICO-4Cl", is designed and synthesized, whose absorption spectrum is mainly located in the near-infrared region. When IEICO-4Cl is blended with different polymer donors (J52, PBDB-T, and PTB7-Th), the colors of the blend films can be tuned from purple to blue to cyan, respectively. Traditional OSCs with a nontransparent Al electrode fabricated by J52: IEICO-4Cl, PBDB-T: IEICO-4Cl, and PTB7-Th: IEICO-4Cl yield power conversion efficiencies (PCE) of 9.65 +/- 0.33%, 9.43 +/- 0.13%, and 10.0 +/- 0.2%, respectively. By using 15 nm Au as the electrode, semitransparent OSCs based on these three blends also show PCEs of 6.37%, 6.24%, and 6.97% with high average visible transmittance (AVT) of 35.1%, 35.7%, and 33.5%, respectively. Furthermore, via changing the thickness of Au in the OSCs, the relationship between the transmittance and efficiency is studied in detail, and an impressive PCE of 8.38% with an AVT of 25.7% is obtained, which is an outstanding value in the semitransparent OSCs.
Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
WILEY-V C H VERLAG GMBH , 2017. Vol. 29, no 43, article id 1703080
Keywords [en]
nonfullerene acceptors; organic solar cells; semitransparent; tunable color
National Category
Polymer Chemistry
Identifiers
URN: urn:nbn:se:liu:diva-143360DOI: 10.1002/adma.201703080ISI: 000415142100009PubMedID: 28977709OAI: oai:DiVA.org:liu-143360DiVA, id: diva2:1162799
Note
Funding Agencies|National Natural Science Foundation of China [91633301, 51673201, 91333204, 21325419]; Chinese Academy of Sciences [XDB12030200]
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