Asymmetric electron acceptor enables highly luminescent organic solar cells with certified efficiency over 18%Show others and affiliations
2022 (English)In: Nature Communications, E-ISSN 2041-1723, Vol. 13, no 1, article id 2598Article in journal (Refereed) Published
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Enhancing the luminescence property without sacrificing the charge collection is one key to high-performance organic solar cells (OSCs), while limited by the severe non-radiative charge recombination. Here, we demonstrate efficient OSCs with high luminescence via the design and synthesis of an asymmetric non-fullerene acceptor, BO-5Cl. Blending BO-5Cl with the PM6 donor leads to a record-high electroluminescence external quantum efficiency of 0.1%, which results in a low non-radiative voltage loss of 0.178 eV and a power conversion efficiency (PCE) over 15%. Importantly, incorporating BO-5Cl as the third component into a widely-studied donor:acceptor (D:A) blend, PM6:BO-4Cl, allows device displaying a high certified PCE of 18.2%. Our joint experimental and theoretical studies unveil that more diverse D:A interfacial conformations formed by asymmetric acceptor induce optimized blend interfacial energetics, which contributes to the improved device performance via balancing charge generation and recombination. High-performance organic solar cells call for novel designs of acceptor molecules. Here, He et al. design and synthesize a non-fullerene acceptor with an asymmetric structure for diverse donor:acceptor interfacial conformations and report a certificated power conversion efficiency of 18.2%.
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NATURE PORTFOLIO , 2022. Vol. 13, no 1, article id 2598
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URN: urn:nbn:se:liu:diva-186171DOI: 10.1038/s41467-022-30225-7ISI: 000801822900004PubMedID: 35545620OAI: oai:DiVA.org:liu-186171DiVA, id: diva2:1675517
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Funding Agencies|National Natural Science Foundation of China [21734008, 52173185, 52127806, 61721005]; National Key Research and Development Program of China [2019YFA0705900, 2017YFA0207700]; Department of the Navy, Office of Naval Research [N00014-20-1-2110]; College of Science of the University of Arizona; Zhejiang University
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