Impact of end groups on the performance of non-fullerene acceptors for organic solar cell applications

2019 ◽  
Vol 7 (40) ◽  
pp. 22701-22729 ◽  
Author(s):  
Suman Suman ◽  
Surya Prakash Singh

Non-fullerene organic solar cells employing small molecule acceptors have recently crossed the PCE of 17% through the design and synthesis of efficient acceptor materials.

2019 ◽  
Vol 7 (3) ◽  
pp. 543-552 ◽  
Author(s):  
Suman Suman ◽  
Afzal Siddiqui ◽  
M. L. Keshtov ◽  
Ganesh D. Sharma ◽  
Surya Prakash Singh

In this work, two new indolo-[3,2-b]-carbazole (ICz) core-based non-fullerene acceptors (ICz-Rd2 and ICz-RdCN2) with an A–π–D–π–A backbone were designed, synthesized, and characterized and the influence of molecular engineering on the terminal end groups on their performance in organic solar cells (OSCs) was systematically examined.


2016 ◽  
Vol 7 (9) ◽  
pp. 5798-5804 ◽  
Author(s):  
Wenhan He ◽  
Maksim Y. Livshits ◽  
Diane A. Dickie ◽  
Jianzhong Yang ◽  
Rachel Quinnett ◽  
...  

“Roller-wheel” shaped Pt-containing molecules display enhanced crystallinity and are better performing organic solar cell materials than conventional small molecules and polymers featuring “dumbbell” shaped structures.


RSC Advances ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 8 (53) ◽  
pp. 30468-30480 ◽  
Author(s):  
Savita Meena ◽  
Tauheed Mohammad ◽  
Viresh Dutta ◽  
Josemon Jacob

Newly designed N-substituted perylene diimide based acceptor copolymers have been characterized and tested for organic solar cells with P3HT in different weight ratios.


2016 ◽  
Vol 4 (27) ◽  
pp. 10409-10413 ◽  
Author(s):  
Miaomiao Li ◽  
Yongtao Liu ◽  
Wang Ni ◽  
Feng Liu ◽  
Huanran Feng ◽  
...  

A small molecule named DICTF was synthesized and an organic solar cell based on PTB7-Th:DICTF exhibited a high PCE of 7.93%.


2018 ◽  
Vol 54 (32) ◽  
pp. 4001-4004 ◽  
Author(s):  
Suman Suman ◽  
Anirban Bagui ◽  
Ashish Garg ◽  
Barkha Tyagi ◽  
Vinay Gupta ◽  
...  

A small molecule non-fullerene electron acceptor (SMNFEA), bearing a furan π-spacer and dicyano-n-hexyl rhodanine as flanking groups, was designed and synthesized for organic solar cell applications.


2020 ◽  
Vol 8 (21) ◽  
pp. 10983-10988 ◽  
Author(s):  
Junhui Miao ◽  
Bin Meng ◽  
Zicheng Ding ◽  
Jun Liu ◽  
Lixiang Wang

An organic solar cell based on a small molecule donor and a polymer acceptor exhibits a PCE of 9.5% and can operate at high temperature. It retains 84% of its PCE after thermal treatment at 150 °C for three days.


2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Matthew Morgan ◽  
Maryam Nazari ◽  
Thomas Pickl ◽  
J. Mikko Rautiainen ◽  
Heikki M. Tuononen ◽  
...  

The electrophilic borylation of 2,5-diarylpyrazines results in the formation of boron-nitrogen doped dihydroindeno[1,2-<i>b</i>]fluorene which can be synthesized via mildly air-sensitive techniques and the end products handled readily under atmosphereic conditions. Through transmetallation via diarylzinc reagents a series of derivatives were sythesized which show broad absorption profiles that highlight the versatility of this backbone to be used in organic solar cell devices. These compounds can be synthesized in large yields, in alow number of steps and functionalized at many stages along the way providing a large depth of possibilities. Exploratory device paramaters were studied and show PCE of 2%.


Author(s):  
Jie Lv ◽  
Hua Tang ◽  
Jiaming Huang ◽  
Cenqi Yan ◽  
Kuan Liu ◽  
...  

Due to the barrierless free charge generation, low charge trapping, and high charge mobilities, the PM6:Y6 organic solar cell (OSC) achieves excellent power conversion efficiency (PCE) of 15.7%. However, the...


2015 ◽  
Vol 12 (5) ◽  
pp. 413-420
Author(s):  
Muhammad Ahsan Naveed ◽  
A. Hussain ◽  
K. Islam ◽  
P. Akhter

Organic solar cells have potential as an alternative to conventional inorganic solar cell due to low processing cost, flexibility and easy fabrication technique. The goal of this paper is to study the characteristics of the CuPc and PCBM based organic solar cell by introducing a thin layer of Ag at the interface of donor (CuPc) and Acceptor (PCBM), their photovoltaic and optical properties were investigated. The heterojunction solar cells with and without silver inter layer were fabricated through thermal deposition in HR vacuum. The OPV solar cells were characterized using current-voltage graphs, absorbance spectrum and Impedance spectroscopy. Impedance spectroscopy was taken to identify the traps using series resistance, parallel resistance, and Impedance spectrums under different frequencies. Optical behaviors of these devices have been investigated with absorbance spectrum. Introducing Ag to interfacing point produced traps and these traps causes to decreased Voc, Isc, FF, and efficiency. The effect of silver layer at donor acceptor interface was studied.


2015 ◽  
Vol 8 (2) ◽  
pp. 592-601 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bradley A. MacLeod ◽  
Bertrand J. Tremolet de Villers ◽  
Philip Schulz ◽  
Paul F. Ndione ◽  
Hyungchul Kim ◽  
...  

Interstitial zinc defects in solution-processed ZnO can be mitigated by using a diethylzinc precursor instead of zinc acetate, or by modifying the ZnO surface with a phosphonic acid, resulting in improved organic solar cell stability.


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