Regulate the Singlet-Triplet Energy Gap by Spatially Separating HOMO and LUMO for High Performance Organic Photovoltaic AcceptorsShow others and affiliations
2025 (English)In: Angewandte Chemie International Edition, ISSN 1433-7851, E-ISSN 1521-3773, Vol. 64, no 35, article id e202506357Article in journal (Refereed) Published
Abstract [en]
Reducing the single-triplet energy gap (triangle E-ST) for organic photovoltaic (OPV) molecules has been proposed to be able to reduce the nonradiative recombination by tuning the low-lying triplet state (T-1) and/or the excited state (S-1), thus reducing the energy loss (E-loss) and increasing the open-circuit voltage in their devices. However, how to design the non-fullerene acceptor (NFA) with small triangle E-ST and high performance is challenging. Aiming to address this issue, YDF, YTF, and YTF-H were synthesized. Among them, a device based on YDF with partially spatially separated highest occupied molecular orbital (HOMO) and lowest unoccupied molecular orbital (LUMO) exhibits a much higher power conversion efficiency (PCE) of 20.04%, which is one of the most efficient efficiencies for binary systems. For YTF and YTF-H, their completely spatially separated HOMO and LUMO indeed lead to a much reduced triangle E-ST caused by the low-lying S-1 state, together with excellent charge mobility and light absorption, required for higher performance OPV. But their low S-1 state causes several non-radiative recombinations due to strong S-1-S-0 coupling (PCE < 1.5%). These results indicate that future designs to have high performance molecules with small triangle E-ST should avoid the sharp decrease in S-1, and the ideal scenario would be to elevate the T-1 state, thereby mitigating the energy gap law.
Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
WILEY-V C H VERLAG GMBH , 2025. Vol. 64, no 35, article id e202506357
Keywords [en]
Organic photovoltaic; Single-triplet energy gap; Nonradiative recombination; Energy gap law; High efficiency
National Category
Theoretical Chemistry
Identifiers
URN: urn:nbn:se:liu:diva-216568DOI: 10.1002/anie.202506357ISI: 001528439100001PubMedID: 40591146Scopus ID: 2-s2.0-105010678852OAI: oai:DiVA.org:liu-216568DiVA, id: diva2:1991071
Note
Funding Agencies|Ministry of Science and Technology of the People's Republic of China [2023YFE0210400]; Ministry of Science and Technology of the People's Republic of China (National Key R&D Program of China) [52025033, 52373189, 21935007, 22361132530]; National Natural Science Foundation of China
2025-08-212025-08-212025-10-14Bibliographically approved