Influence of backbone modification of difluoroquinoxaline-based copolymers on the interchain packing, blend morphology and photovoltaic properties of nonfullerene organic solar cells

2019 ◽  
Vol 7 (6) ◽  
pp. 1681-1689 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yuxiang Li ◽  
Minseok Kim ◽  
Ziang Wu ◽  
Changyeon Lee ◽  
Young Woong Lee ◽  
...  

The impact of the crystalline orientation of donor and acceptor molecules on the photovoltaic properties with modification of polymer backbone structures.

2020 ◽  
Vol 8 (40) ◽  
pp. 21070-21083 ◽  
Author(s):  
Duyen K. Tran ◽  
Amélie Robitaille ◽  
I. Jo Hai ◽  
Xiaomei Ding ◽  
Daiki Kuzuhara ◽  
...  

This work provides a unified understanding on how polymer molecular weight influences the blend photophysics, blend morphology, charge transport, and photovoltaic properties of all-polymer solar cells.


2019 ◽  
Vol 233 (11) ◽  
pp. 1625-1644 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ahmad Irfan ◽  
Mehboobali Pannipara ◽  
Abdullah G. Al-Sehemi ◽  
Muhammad Waseem Mumtaz ◽  
Mohammed A. Assiri ◽  
...  

Abstract Multifunctional pyrazole derivative, i.e. 3-amino-1-(5-hydroxy-3-methyl-1H-pyrazol-4-yl)-1H-benzo[f]chromene-2-carbonitrile (PBCC) has been synthesized and characterized. To shed light on various properties of interests, the ground state geometry was optimized by adopting Density Functional Theory (PBE/TZ2P). The effect of different functionals on the absorption wavelengths was studied by using Time-Domain DFT (TDDFT), e.g. GGA functional PBE, hybrid functionals B3LYP and PBE0, rang separated functionals CAM-B3LYP, LCY-PBE and CAMY-B3LYP, Dispersion Corrections PBE-D3 and B3LYP-D3. Among all these functionals PBE and PBE-D3 were found to be good choices which reproduced the absorption spectra of the PBCC. With the aim to enhance the electro-optical, charge transfer and photovoltaic properties, five new derivatives were designed by di-substituting the –F, –Cl, –Br, –COOH and –CN at benzochromene moiety. The electron injection barrier, band gap alignment and related calculated photovoltaic parameters revealed that PBCC and its newly designed derivatives would be proficient to be used in photovoltaic devices. These compounds can be used as donor materials in dye-sensitized solar cells (DSSCs) with favorable type-II band alignment. Moreover, PBCC and most of its derivatives might also be good choice as efficient acceptors with poly(dithieno[3,2-b:2,3-d]pyrrole thiophene) (PDTPr-T) and donor materials with Phenyl-C61-butyric acid methyl ester (PC61BM) in organic solar cells.


Author(s):  
Hu Dingqin ◽  
Hua Tang ◽  
Haiyan Chen ◽  
Jie Lv ◽  
Shirong Lu ◽  
...  

Ternary strategy is promising to enhance the photovoltaic properties of organic solar cells (OSCs). Nevertheless, it is full of challenging when this approach involving only small molecule. Herein, a fullerene...


2015 ◽  
Vol 25 (7) ◽  
pp. 1090-1101 ◽  
Author(s):  
Benjamin Bouthinon ◽  
Raphaël Clerc ◽  
Jérôme Vaillant ◽  
Jean-Marie Verilhac ◽  
Jérôme Faure-Vincent ◽  
...  

RSC Advances ◽  
2015 ◽  
Vol 5 (130) ◽  
pp. 107566-107574 ◽  
Author(s):  
Xin Liu ◽  
Yuan Xie ◽  
Xinyi Cai ◽  
Yunchuan Li ◽  
Hongbin Wu ◽  
...  

Four solution-processable acceptor–donor–acceptor structured organic molecules with isoindigo as terminal acceptor units and different aromatic rigid planar cores as donor units were designed and synthesized as the acceptor materials in organic solar cells (OSCs).


1981 ◽  
Vol 59 (6) ◽  
pp. 727-732 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rafik O. Loutfy ◽  
Cheng-Kuo Hsiao

The effect of temperature on the photovoltaic properties of indium/metal-free phthalocyanine Schottky barrier solar cells was investigated in the range 260–350 K. In general, the short circuit photocurrent, Jsc, and fill factor, ff, increased with increasing temperature (in contrast to inorganic photocells). The device series resistance and open circuit photovoltage, Voc, decreased (similar to inorganic photocells) as temperature was raised. An increase in the overall power conversion efficiency, η, has been observed with increase of temperature. In the case of x-H2Pc, the power conversion efficiency increased by 2.5 times due to a temperature rise of 60 °C above ambient. Thus, for operation at temperatures above ambient, organic solar cells may offer a significant advantage over inorganic cells.Analysis of the variation of the photovoltage with temperature showed that the decrease in Voc is mainly due to variation injunction impedance, which is controlled by thermionic current at high temperature and ionized impurity at low temperature.


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