Over 13% Efficient Organic Solar Cells Based on Low-Cost Pentacyclic A-DA D-A-Type Nonfullerene AcceptorShow others and affiliations
2021 (English)In: Solar RRL, E-ISSN 2367-198X, Vol. 5, no 8, article id 2100281Article in journal (Refereed) Published
Abstract [en]
Recent studies have almost focused on finding active layer materials with extended pi-conjugation structures for high-performance organic solar cells (OSCs). However, with the extension of conjugate length, the synthesis difficulty and cost of materials will increase. Achieving high efficiency while reducing material costs is a prerequisite for the commercialization of OSCs. Herein, two low-cost A-DA D-A-type (where A and D represent an electron-withdrawing unit and an electron-donating unit, respectively) nonfullerene acceptors (Y25,Y26) are synthesized with pentacyclic fused backbone as the DA D electron-deficient core and 5,6-difluoro-3-(dicyandiamethyl) indigo as the end groups. Compared with classical Y series acceptors with heptacyclic backbone, although Y25 and Y26 own the reduced conjugated length, they still show moderate performance (11.65% and 13.34%), and the cost of synthesis is significantly reduced. Therefore, we provide a new molecular design idea for commercially efficient nonfullerene OSCs acceptors. We also find that adding alkyl chains to the beta site of thiophenes is beneficial to obtaining the reduced energetic disorder, dominant molecular stacking, and desirable morphology, which can facilitate charge carrier transport and prompt higher short-circuit current density (J(sc)) as well as fill factor.
Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
Wiley-Blackwell, 2021. Vol. 5, no 8, article id 2100281
Keywords [en]
charge transport; energetic disorder; nonfullerene acceptors; side chains
National Category
Materials Chemistry
Identifiers
URN: urn:nbn:se:liu:diva-177840DOI: 10.1002/solr.202100281ISI: 000664591600001OAI: oai:DiVA.org:liu-177840DiVA, id: diva2:1577989
Note
Funding Agencies|National Natural Science Foundation of ChinaNational Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC) [21875286]; Hunan Intellectual Property Bureau [2016e004]; Science and Technology Plan Key Project of Hunan Province [2020GK2100]; Natural Science Foundation of Hunan ProvinceNatural Science Foundation of Hunan Province [2020JJ4721]
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