Subtle Molecular Tailoring Induces Significant Morphology Optimization Enabling over 16% Efficiency Organic Solar Cells with Efficient Charge GenerationShow others and affiliations
2020 (English)In: Advanced Materials, ISSN 0935-9648, E-ISSN 1521-4095, Vol. 32, no 4, article id 1906324Article in journal (Refereed) Published
Abstract [en]
Manipulating charge generation in a broad spectral region has proved to be crucial for nonfullerene-electron-acceptor-based organic solar cells (OSCs). 16.64% high efficiency binary OSCs are achieved through the use of a novel electron acceptor AQx-2 with quinoxaline-containing fused core and PBDB-TF as donor. The significant increase in photovoltaic performance of AQx-2 based devices is obtained merely by a subtle tailoring in molecular structure of its analogue AQx-1. Combining the detailed morphology and transient absorption spectroscopy analyses, a good structure-morphology-property relationship is established. The stronger pi-pi interaction results in efficient electron hopping and balanced electron and hole mobilities attributed to good charge transport. Moreover, the reduced phase separation morphology of AQx-2-based bulk heterojunction blend boosts hole transfer and suppresses geminate recombination. Such success in molecule design and precise morphology optimization may lead to next-generation high-performance OSCs.
Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
WILEY-V C H VERLAG GMBH , 2020. Vol. 32, no 4, article id 1906324
Keywords [en]
charge generation; nonfullerene acceptors; organic solar cells; power conversion efficiency; solar cell morphology
National Category
Condensed Matter Physics
Identifiers
URN: urn:nbn:se:liu:diva-162947DOI: 10.1002/adma.201906324ISI: 000502114900001PubMedID: 31815332OAI: oai:DiVA.org:liu-162947DiVA, id: diva2:1382359
Note
Funding Agencies|National Key R&D Program of China [2017YFA0204701]; Strategic Priority Research Program of the Chinese Academy of SciencesChinese Academy of Sciences [XDB12010200]; National Basic Research Program of China (Program 973)National Basic Research Program of China [2014CB643502]; National Natural Science Foundation of ChinaNational Natural Science Foundation of China [21572234, 21661132006, 91833304, 21805289]
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