Optimizing the Charge Carrier and Light Management of Nonfullerene Acceptors for Efficient Organic Solar Cells with Small Nonradiative Energy LossesShow others and affiliations
2021 (English)In: Solar RRL, E-ISSN 2367-198X, Vol. 5, no 4, article id 2100008Article in journal (Refereed) Published
Abstract [en]
The photovoltaic properties and energy losses of organic solar cells (OSCs) based on nonfullerene acceptors (NFAs) are highly dependent on their molecular structures and aggregation morphologies. Charge carrier and light managements are important to optimize NFA molecules. Herein, four NFAs with different alkyl substituents and end groups, named BTP-C11-N2F, BTP-C9-N2F, BTP-C9-IC4F, and BTP-C9-N4F, are designed and synthesized by side-chain shortening, end-acceptor pi-extension, and fluorination. As a result, a favorable morphology is achieved in BTP-C9-N4F-based OSCs by using typical high bandgap polymer PM6 as a donor, and this system obtains the highest power conversion efficiency of 17.0% with a short circuit current (J(sc)) of 26.3 mA cm(-2), an open circuit current (V-oc) of 0.85 V, and a fill factor (FF) of 75.7%. In addition, its light (J(sc)) and charge carrier (V-oc x FF) managements relative to the Shockley-Queisser limit are also increased. Extending the conjugation of the end groups increased the energy levels of NFAs and enabled an E-loss of 0.50 eV with a nonradiative recombination loss of as low as 0.20 eV in BTP-C11-N2F-based OSCs. This work provides an efficient strategy to optimize the molecular structures of nonfullerene acceptors and further improve the properties of OSCs.
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WILEY-V C H VERLAG GMBH , 2021. Vol. 5, no 4, article id 2100008
Keywords [en]
alkyl substituents; end groups; nonfullerene acceptors; nonradiative recombination loss; organic solar cells
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URN: urn:nbn:se:liu:diva-173903DOI: 10.1002/solr.202100008ISI: 000617939100001OAI: oai:DiVA.org:liu-173903DiVA, id: diva2:1536085
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Funding Agencies|National Natural Science Foundation of ChinaNational Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC) [21822503, 51973043, 21534003, 21721002, 51863002, 51973042]; Ministry of Science and Technology of ChinaMinistry of Science and Technology, China [2016YFA0200700]; Youth Innovation Promotion Association; Datong Coal Mine Group; Chinese Academy of SciencesChinese Academy of Sciences; Swedish Research Council VRSwedish Research Council [2018-06048]; Swedish Strategic Research Foundation through a Future Research Leader program [FFL 18-0322]
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