scholarly journals Efficient Organic Solar Cells with Polymer-Small Molecule: Fullerene Ternary Active Layers

ACS Omega ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 2 (5) ◽  
pp. 1786-1794 ◽  
Author(s):  
Wenzhan Xu ◽  
Chao Yi ◽  
Xiang Yao ◽  
Lili Jiang ◽  
Xiong Gong ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Solar Cells ◽  
Small Molecule ◽  
Organic Solar Cells ◽  
Active Layers

scholarly journals All-small-molecule organic solar cells with over 14% efficiency by optimizing hierarchical morphologies

2019 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Ruimin Zhou ◽  
Zhaoyan Jiang ◽  
Chen Yang ◽  
Jianwei Yu ◽  
Jirui Feng ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Solar Cells ◽  
Small Molecule ◽  
Organic Solar Cells ◽  
High Performance ◽  
High Efficiency ◽  
Bulk Heterojunction ◽  
Photovoltaic Performance ◽  
Photovoltaic System ◽  
Active Layers ◽  
Donor Acceptor

AbstractThe high efficiency all-small-molecule organic solar cells (OSCs) normally require optimized morphology in their bulk heterojunction active layers. Herein, a small-molecule donor is designed and synthesized, and single-crystal structural analyses reveal its explicit molecular planarity and compact intermolecular packing. A promising narrow bandgap small-molecule with absorption edge of more than 930 nm along with our home-designed small molecule is selected as electron acceptors. To the best of our knowledge, the binary all-small-molecule OSCs achieve the highest efficiency of 14.34% by optimizing their hierarchical morphologies, in which the donor or acceptor rich domains with size up to ca. 70 nm, and the donor crystals of tens of nanometers, together with the donor-acceptor blending, are proved coexisting in the hierarchical large domain. All-small-molecule photovoltaic system shows its promising for high performance OSCs, and our study is likely to lead to insights in relations between bulk heterojunction structure and photovoltaic performance.

Efficient solvent-assisted external treatment for planar heterojunction small-molecule organic solar cells

2014 ◽  
Vol 2 (26) ◽  
pp. 10250-10256 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jinhyun Kim ◽  
Ilsu Heo ◽  
Dasom Park ◽  
Sang Jung Ahn ◽  
Sung-Yeon Jang ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Solar Cells ◽  
Small Molecule ◽  
Organic Photovoltaics ◽  
Organic Solar Cells ◽  
Active Layers ◽  
Planar Heterojunction

We developed a novel solvent-assisted treatment (SAT) technique to modify the nanomorphology of the planar heterojunction (PHJ) bilayer active layers (ZnPc/C60) of organic photovoltaics (OPVs).

The Effect of Donor Molecular Structure on Power Conversion Efficiency of Small-Molecule-Based Organic Solar Cells

2019 ◽  
Vol 16 (3) ◽  
pp. 236-243 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hui Zhang ◽  
Yibing Ma ◽  
Youyi Sun ◽  
Jialei Liu ◽  
Yaqing Liu ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Molecular Structure ◽  
Solar Cells ◽  
Power Conversion Efficiency ◽  
Conversion Efficiency ◽  
Small Molecule ◽  
Organic Solar Cells ◽  
Molecular Design ◽  
Power Conversion ◽  
The Relationship

In this review, small-molecule donors for application in organic solar cells reported in the last three years are highlighted. Especially, the effect of donor molecular structure on power conversion efficiency of organic solar cells is reported in detail. Furthermore, the mechanism is proposed and discussed for explaining the relationship between structure and power conversion efficiency. These results and discussions draw some rules for rational donor molecular design, which is very important for further improving the power conversion efficiency of organic solar cells based on the small-molecule donor.

Fullerene/Non-fullerene Alloy for High-Performance All-Small-Molecule Organic Solar Cells

2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (5) ◽  
pp. 6461-6469
Author(s):  
María Privado ◽  
Fernando G. Guijarro ◽  
Pilar de la Cruz ◽  
Rahul Singhal ◽  
Fernando Langa ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Solar Cells ◽  
Small Molecule ◽  
Organic Solar Cells ◽  
High Performance

scholarly journals Recent progress in small‐molecule donors for non‐fullerene all‐small‐molecule organic solar cells

Nano Select ◽  
2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ze Zhang ◽  
Yaokun Wang ◽  
Chenkai Sun ◽  
Zitong Liu ◽  
Haiqiao Wang ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Solar Cells ◽  
Small Molecule ◽  
Organic Solar Cells ◽  
Recent Progress

scholarly journals The Effects of Molecular Packing Behavior of Small-Molecule Acceptors in Ternary Organic Solar Cells

2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (2) ◽  
pp. 755
Author(s):  
Eunhee Lim
Keyword(s):  
Solar Cells ◽  
Energy Level ◽  
Ternary System ◽  
Small Molecule ◽  
Organic Solar Cells ◽  
Orbital Energy ◽  
Working Mechanism ◽  
Energy Level Structure ◽  
The Third ◽  
Molecular Backbone

Herein, two diketopyrrolopyrrole (DPP)-based, small-molecule isomers, o- and p-DPP-PhCN, were introduced as acceptors in ternary organic solar cells (OSCs). The isomers have the same molecular backbone but differ in the positions of the cyanide (CN) substituents (ortho and para), which greatly affects their packing behavior. Ternary solar cells composed of poly(3-hexylthiophene) (P3HT):DPP-PhCN:phenyl-C61-butyric acid methyl ester (PCBM) were fabricated, and the effects of the different packing behaviors of the third component on the device performance and the working mechanism of the ternary cells were investigated. The addition of o-DPP-PhCN with a relatively high-lying lowest unoccupied molecular orbital energy level resulted in an increase in the open-circuit voltage (VOC) in the ternary devices, demonstrating the alloy-like structure of the two acceptors (o-DPP-PhCN and PCBM) in the ternary system. However, the p-DPP-PhCN-based ternary cells exhibited VOC values similar to that of a P3HT:PCBM binary cell, irrespective of the addition of p-DPP-PhCN, indicating a cascade energy-level structure in the ternary system and an effective charge transfer from the P3HT to the PCBM. Importantly, by increasing the addition of p-DPP-PhCN, the short-circuit current density increased substantially, resulting in pronounced shoulder peaks in the external quantum efficiency responses in the long-wavelength region, corresponding to the contribution of the photocurrent generated by the light absorption of p-DPP-PhCN. Despite sharing the same molecular backbone, the two DPP-PhCNs exhibited substantially different packing behaviors according to the position of their CN substituents, which also greatly affected the working mechanism of the ternary devices fabricated using the DPP-PhCNs as the third component.

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