Ternary copolymers containing 3,4-dicyanothiophene for efficient organic solar cells with reduced energy loss

Author(s):  
Yue Zhang ◽  
Langheng Pan ◽  
Zhongxiang Peng ◽  
Wanyuan Deng ◽  
Bo Zhang ◽  
...  

The power conversion efficiencies (PCEs) of organic solar cells (OSCs) based on non-fullerene acceptors are still limited by large energy losses (∆Elosss). Herein, we report an easy and feasible way...

Author(s):  
Ziyun Huang ◽  
Yanan Shi ◽  
Yilin Chang ◽  
Chen Yang ◽  
Min Lv ◽  
...  

Despite the remarkable progress achieved in the field of non-fullerene acceptor (NFA)-based organic photovoltaics (OPVs) in recent years, the large energy loss remains the major factor limiting the power conversion...


2020 ◽  
Vol 13 (5) ◽  
pp. 1309-1317 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yulong Wang ◽  
Yang Wang ◽  
Lei Zhu ◽  
Haiqin Liu ◽  
Jin Fang ◽  
...  

A novel small molecule donor based on thiazolo[5,4-d]thiazole (TTz) unit is developed for OSCs application with 13.9% power conversion efficiency and a small non-radiative energy loss of 0.18 eV.


Author(s):  
Ruihong Duan ◽  
Guangchao Han ◽  
Lingbo Qu ◽  
Yuanping Yi

Owing to the emergence of small-molecule acceptors with acceptor-donor-acceptor (A-D-A) structures, organic solar cells (OSCs) have developed rapidly in recent years. Currently, the power conversion efficiencies (PCEs) of the OSCs...


Author(s):  
Shreyam Chatterjee ◽  
Seihou JINNAI ◽  
Yutaka Ie

Progressive advancement of remarkably high power conversion efficiencies (PCEs) of organic solar cells (OSCs) largely depends on the development of norfullerene acceptors (NFAs), revealing stupendous ability of OSCs to shift...


Nanoscale ◽  
2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Congcong Zhao ◽  
Jiuxing Wang ◽  
Xuanyi Zhao ◽  
Zhonglin Du ◽  
Renqiang Yang ◽  
...  

The past decade has seen a tremendous development of organic solar cells (OSCs). To date, the high-performance OSCs have boosted the power conversion efficiencies (PCEs) over 17%, showing bright prospects...


2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Haifen Liu ◽  
Zixuan Zhu ◽  
Huafeng Li ◽  
Weili Fan ◽  
Kaihua Ning ◽  
...  

Non-fullerene acceptors have received a great deal of attention over the past several years, and numerous modifications on the molecular structures significantly boosted the power conversion efficiencies (PCEs). To be...


2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Zhaofan Yang ◽  
Shijie Liang ◽  
Baiqiao Liu ◽  
Jing Wang ◽  
Fan Yang ◽  
...  

Single-component organic solar cells (SCOSCs) have been recognized as the promising photovoltaic technology due to the excellent stability, but their power conversion efficiencies (PCEs) are far lagging their bulk-heterojunction counterparts....


2019 ◽  
Vol 43 (26) ◽  
pp. 10442-10448 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sergey V. Dayneko ◽  
Arthur D. Hendsbee ◽  
Jonathan R. Cann ◽  
Clément Cabanetos ◽  
Gregory C. Welch

The addition of donor or acceptor type molecular semiconductors to PBDB-T:PC60BM based organic photovoltaics leads to increases in open circuit-voltages and overall power conversion efficiencies.


2019 ◽  
Vol 01 (01) ◽  
pp. 030-037 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jianyun Zhang ◽  
Wenrui Liu ◽  
Shengjie Xu ◽  
Xiaozhang Zhu

Recently, by elaborately designing nonfullerene acceptors and selecting suitable polymer donors great progresses have been made towards binary organic solar cells (OSCs) with power conversion efficiencies (PCEs) over 15%. Ternary organic photovoltaics by introducing a third component into the host binary system is recognized to be highly effective to elevate the performance through extending the light absorption, manipulating the recombination behavior of the carriers, and improving the morphology of the active layer. In this work, we synthesized a new electron-acceptor ZITI-4F matching it with the wide-bandgap polymer donor PBDB-T The PBDB-T:ZITI-4F-based OSC showed a high PCE of 12.33%. After introducing 40% of PC71BM as the third component, the ternary device achieved an improved PCE of 13.40% with simultaneously improved photovoltaic parameters. The higher performance of the ternary device can be attributed to the improved and more balanced charge mobility, reduced bimolecular recombination, and more favorable morphology. These results indicate that the cooperation of a fullerene-based acceptor and a nonfullerene acceptor to fabricate ternary OSCs is an effective approach to optimizing morphology and therefore to increase the performance of OSCs.


2017 ◽  
Vol 5 (6) ◽  
pp. 1275-1302 ◽  
Author(s):  
Wangqiao Chen ◽  
Qichun Zhang

The power conversion efficiencies (PCEs) of non-fullerene small molecule acceptors based on different donors have been compared and summarized.


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