Highly crystalline low-bandgap polymer nanowires towards high-performance thick-film organic solar cells exceeding 10% power conversion efficiency

2017 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
pp. 247-257 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jaewon Lee ◽  
Dong Hun Sin ◽  
Byungho Moon ◽  
Jisoo Shin ◽  
Heung Gyu Kim ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Solar Cells ◽  
Power Conversion Efficiency ◽  
Thick Film ◽  
Organic Solar Cells ◽  
High Performance ◽  
Bulk Heterojunction ◽  
Power Conversion ◽  
One Dimensional ◽  
Low Bandgap ◽  
Polymer Nanowires

One-dimensional low bandgap polymer nanowires successfully incorporated into bulk-heterojunction organic solar cells, yielding a high PCE exceeding 10% with thick films.

scholarly journals High performance tandem organic solar cells via a strongly infrared-absorbing narrow bandgap acceptor

2021 ◽  
Vol 12 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Zhenrong Jia ◽  
Shucheng Qin ◽  
Lei Meng ◽  
Qing Ma ◽  
Indunil Angunawela ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Solar Cells ◽  
Power Conversion Efficiency ◽  
Conversion Efficiency ◽  
Organic Solar Cells ◽  
High Performance ◽  
Short Circuit ◽  
Power Conversion ◽  
High Power Conversion Efficiency ◽  
Device Structure ◽  
Narrow Bandgap

AbstractTandem organic solar cells are based on the device structure monolithically connecting two solar cells to broaden overall absorption spectrum and utilize the photon energy more efficiently. Herein, we demonstrate a simple strategy of inserting a double bond between the central core and end groups of the small molecule acceptor Y6 to extend its conjugation length and absorption range. As a result, a new narrow bandgap acceptor BTPV-4F was synthesized with an optical bandgap of 1.21 eV. The single-junction devices based on BTPV-4F as acceptor achieved a power conversion efficiency of over 13.4% with a high short-circuit current density of 28.9 mA cm−2. With adopting BTPV-4F as the rear cell acceptor material, the resulting tandem devices reached a high power conversion efficiency of over 16.4% with good photostability. The results indicate that BTPV-4F is an efficient infrared-absorbing narrow bandgap acceptor and has great potential to be applied into tandem organic solar cells.

scholarly journals Planar D-π-A Configured Dimethoxy Vinylbenzene Based Small Organic Molecule for Solution-Processed Bulk Heterojunction Organic Solar Cells

2020 ◽  
Vol 10 (17) ◽  
pp. 5743
Author(s):  
Shabaz Alam ◽  
M. Shaheer Akhtar ◽  
Abdullah ◽  
Eun-Bi Kim ◽  
Hyung-Shik Shin ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Solar Cells ◽  
Band Gap ◽  
Power Conversion Efficiency ◽  
Organic Solar Cells ◽  
Organic Molecule ◽  
Bulk Heterojunction ◽  
Power Conversion ◽  
Solution Processed ◽  
Small Organic Molecule ◽  
Donor Material

A new and effective planar D-π-A configured small organic molecule (SOM) of 2-5-(3,5-dimethoxystyryl)thiophen-2-yl)methylene)-1H-indene-1,3(2H)-dione, abbreviated as DVB-T-ID, was synthesized using 1,3-indanedione acceptor and dimethoxy vinylbenzene donor units, connected through a thiophene π-spacer. The presence of a dimethoxy vinylbenzene unit and π-spacer in DVB-T-ID significantly improved the absorption behavior by displaying maximum absorbance at ~515 nm, and the reasonable band gap was estimated as ~2.06 eV. The electronic properties revealed that DVB-T-ID SOMs exhibited promising HOMO (−5.32 eV) and LUMO (−3.26 eV). The synthesized DVB-T-ID SOM was utilized as donor material for fabricating solution-processed bulk heterojunction organic solar cells (BHJ-OSCs) and showed a reasonable power conversion efficiency (PCE) of ~3.1% with DVB-T-ID:PC61BM (1:2, w/w) active layer. The outcome of this work clearly reflects that synthesized DVB-T-ID based on 1,3-indanedione units is a promising absorber (donor) material for BHJ-OSCs.

Incorporation of alkylthio side chains on benzothiadiazole-based non-fullerene acceptors enables high-performance organic solar cells with over 16% efficiency

2020 ◽  
Vol 8 (44) ◽  
pp. 23239-23247
Author(s):  
Andy Man Hong Cheung ◽  
Han Yu ◽  
Siwei Luo ◽  
Zhen Wang ◽  
Zhenyu Qi ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Solar Cells ◽  
Power Conversion Efficiency ◽  
Conversion Efficiency ◽  
Organic Solar Cells ◽  
High Performance ◽  
Power Conversion ◽  
Side Chains ◽  
First Time

This is the first time alkylthio chains are employed on Y6-like NFAs to achieve organic solar cells of power conversion efficiency higher than 16%.

Substituent effects in magnesium tetraethynylporphyrin with two diketopyrrolopyrrole units for bulk heterojunction organic solar cells

2017 ◽  
Vol 5 (44) ◽  
pp. 23067-23077 ◽  
Author(s):  
Keisuke Ogumi ◽  
Takafumi Nakagawa ◽  
Hiroshi Okada ◽  
Ryohei Sakai ◽  
Huan Wang ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Solar Cells ◽  
Power Conversion Efficiency ◽  
Conversion Efficiency ◽  
Organic Solar Cells ◽  
Open Circuit Voltage ◽  
Bulk Heterojunction ◽  
Power Conversion ◽  
Substituent Effects ◽  
Open Circuit ◽  
Donor Acceptor

Acceptor–donor–acceptor conjugated magnesium porphyrins showed a power conversion efficiency of 5.73%, high open-circuit voltage of 0.79 V, or an extended incident photon-to-current conversion efficiency spectrum to 1100 nm, depending on the substituents.

Synergistic effect of side-chain and backbone engineering in thieno[2,3-f]benzofuran-based conjugated polymers for high performance non-fullerene organic solar cells

2019 ◽  
Vol 7 (3) ◽  
pp. 958-964 ◽  
Author(s):  
Keke Dou ◽  
Xunchang Wang ◽  
Zurong Du ◽  
Huanxiang Jiang ◽  
Feng Li ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Solar Cells ◽  
Synergistic Effect ◽  
Conjugated Polymers ◽  
Power Conversion Efficiency ◽  
Organic Solar Cells ◽  
High Performance ◽  
Power Conversion ◽  
Photovoltaic Performance ◽  
Side Chain ◽  
Alkyl Side Chains

A series of copolymers containing thieno[2,3-f]benzofuran unit with different alkyl side chains are synthesized. The best photovoltaic performance with power conversion efficiency over 11% have been realized.

Replacing Cyano (−C≡N) Group to Design Environmentally Friendly Fused-ring Electron Acceptors

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Chuang Yao ◽  
Yezi Yang ◽  
Lei Li ◽  
Maolin Bo ◽  
Cheng Peng ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Solar Cells ◽  
Power Conversion Efficiency ◽  
Conversion Efficiency ◽  
Organic Solar Cells ◽  
High Performance ◽  
Cyano Group ◽  
Power Conversion ◽  
Electron Acceptors ◽  
Fused Ring ◽  
Electron Withdrawing Group

Cyano-group (−C≡N) is an electron-withdrawing group, which has been widely used to construct high-performance fused-ring electron acceptors (FREAs). Benefiting from these FREAs, the power conversion efficiency of organic solar cells...

An acceptor–donor–acceptor type non-fullerene acceptor with an asymmetric backbone for high performance organic solar cells

2020 ◽  
Vol 8 (18) ◽  
pp. 6293-6298
Author(s):  
Cancan Jiao ◽  
Ziqi Guo ◽  
Binqiao Sun ◽  
Yuan-qiu-qiang Yi ◽  
Lingxian Meng ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Solar Cells ◽  
Power Conversion Efficiency ◽  
Conversion Efficiency ◽  
Organic Solar Cells ◽  
High Performance ◽  
Power Conversion ◽  
Acceptor Molecule ◽  
Donor Acceptor

An acceptor molecule with an asymmetric backbone, CC10, has been designed, which achieved a power conversion efficiency of 11.78%.

An Alternative Approach to Simulate the Power Conversion Efficiency of Bulk Heterojunction Organic Solar Cells

2020 ◽  
pp. 2000597
Author(s):  
Kiran Sreedhar Ram ◽  
David Ompong ◽  
Hooman Mehdizadeh Rad ◽  
Daniel Dodzi Yao Setsoafia ◽  
Jai Singh
Keyword(s):  
Solar Cells ◽  
Power Conversion Efficiency ◽  
Conversion Efficiency ◽  
Organic Solar Cells ◽  
Bulk Heterojunction ◽  
Power Conversion ◽  
Alternative Approach

High-performance ternary organic solar cells with photoresponses beyond 1000 nm

2018 ◽  
Vol 6 (47) ◽  
pp. 24210-24215 ◽  
Author(s):  
Peiyao Xue ◽  
Yiqun Xiao ◽  
Tengfei Li ◽  
Shuixing Dai ◽  
Boyu Jia ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Solar Cells ◽  
Organic Solar Cells ◽  
High Performance ◽  
Power Conversion ◽  
Low Bandgap ◽  
Conversion Efficiencies

Panchromatic ternary organic solar cells with photoresponses beyond 1000 nm and power conversion efficiencies as high as 12.1% were fabricated using low-bandgap polymer PTB7-Th as a donor and ultra low-bandgap F8IC and mid-bandgap IDT-2BR as nonfullerene acceptors.

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