scholarly journals Recent Advances in Non-Fullerene Acceptors of the IDIC/ITIC Families for Bulk-Heterojunction Organic Solar Cells

2020 ◽  
Vol 21 (21) ◽  
pp. 8085
Author(s):  
Giacomo Forti ◽  
Andrea Nitti ◽  
Peshawa Osw ◽  
Gabriele Bianchi ◽  
Riccardo Po ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Solar Cells ◽  
Organic Solar Cells ◽  
Molecular Design ◽  
Bulk Heterojunction ◽  
Photovoltaic Performance ◽  
Fine Tuning ◽  
The Past ◽  
Recent Advances ◽  
Group Modification ◽  
End Capping

The introduction of the IDIC/ITIC families of non-fullerene acceptors has boosted the photovoltaic performances of bulk-heterojunction organic solar cells. The fine tuning of the photophysical, morphological and processability properties with the aim of reaching higher and higher photocurrent efficiencies has prompted uninterrupted worldwide research on these peculiar families of organic compounds. The main strategies for the modification of IDIC/ITIC compounds, described in several contributions published in the past few years, can be summarized and classified into core modification strategies and end-capping group modification strategies. In this review, we analyze the more recent advances in this field (last two years), and we focus our attention on the molecular design proposed to increase photovoltaic performance with the aim of rationalizing the general properties of these families of non-fullerene acceptors.

Recent advances, challenges and prospects in ternary organic solar cells

Nanoscale ◽  
2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Congcong Zhao ◽  
Jiuxing Wang ◽  
Xuanyi Zhao ◽  
Zhonglin Du ◽  
Renqiang Yang ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Solar Cells ◽  
Organic Solar Cells ◽  
High Performance ◽  
Power Conversion ◽  
The Past ◽  
Recent Advances ◽  
Conversion Efficiencies

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...

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.

Enhancing organic photovoltaic performance with 3D-transport dual nonfullerene acceptors

2022 ◽  
Author(s):  
Shuixing Dai ◽  
Mengyang Li ◽  
Jingming Xin ◽  
Guanyu Lu ◽  
Peiyao Xue ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Solar Cells ◽  
Charge Transport ◽  
Organic Solar Cells ◽  
Bulk Heterojunction ◽  
Photovoltaic Performance ◽  
Organic Photovoltaic ◽  
Sequential Process

We used dual nonfullerene acceptors Y6:FINIC with 3D charge transport features and polymer donor PM6 to fabricate sequential-process heterojunction (SHJ) and bulk heterojunction (BHJ) organic solar cells (OSCs). FINIC has...

scholarly journals Recent Advances in Squaraine Dyes for Bulk-Heterojunction Organic Solar Cells

2019 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-16 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yao Chen ◽  
Weigang Zhu ◽  
Jianglin Wu ◽  
Yan Huang ◽  
Antonio Facchetti ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Solar Cells ◽  
Small Molecule ◽  
Organic Solar Cells ◽  
Bulk Heterojunction ◽  
Oscillator Strengths ◽  
Design Synthesis ◽  
Squaraine Dyes ◽  
The Past ◽  
Recent Developments ◽  
P Type

Abstract Squaraine (SQ) dyes are an important class of electron-donating (donors or p-type) semiconductors for organic solar cells (OSC) due to their facile synthetic access, broad optical absorption with high oscillator strengths, and chemical robustness. Blending them with compatible electron-acceptors (acceptors or n-type) yields OSC devices known as bulk-heterojunction (BHJ) small molecule donor organic solar cells (SMD-OSCs). Through extensive research on materials design, synthesis, characterization, and device optimization over the past ˝ve years, SMD-OSCs employing SQ-based structures have achieved remarkable increases in device power conversion e˚ciency (PCE), now approaching 8%. Although these PCEs have not yet equaled the performance of state- of-the art donor polymers and some other SMD semiconductors, SQ-based OSC progress highlights successful and generalizable strategies for small molecule solar cells that should lead to future advances. In this review, recent developments in SQ-based OSCs are discussed and analyzed.

scholarly journals Pyrrolo[3,2-b]pyrrole-1,4-dione (IsoDPP) End Capped with Napthalimide or Phthalimide: Novel Small Molecular Acceptors for Organic Solar Cells

Molecules ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 25 (20) ◽  
pp. 4700
Author(s):  
Thu Trang Do ◽  
Meera Stephen ◽  
Khai Leok Chan ◽  
Sergei Manzhos ◽  
Paul L. Burn ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Solar Cells ◽  
Organic Solar Cells ◽  
Bulk Heterojunction ◽  
High Thermal Stability ◽  
Electron Affinities ◽  
New Materials ◽  
Good Solubility ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Donor Acceptor ◽  
End Capping

We introduce two novel solution-processable electron acceptors based on an isomeric core of the much explored diketopyrrolopyrrole (DPP) moiety, namely pyrrolo[3,2-b]pyrrole-1,4-dione (IsoDPP). The newly designed and synthesized compounds, 6,6′-[(1,4-bis{4-decylphenyl}-2,5-dioxo-1,2,4,5-tetrahydropyrrolo[3,2-b]pyrrole-3,6-diyl)bis(thiophene-5,2-diyl)]bis[2-(2-butyloctyl)-1H-benzo[de]isoquinoline-1,3(2H)-dione] (NAI-IsoDPP-NAI) and 5,5′-[(1,4-bis{4-decylphenyl}-2,5-dioxo-1,2,4,5-tetrahydropyrrolo[3,2-b]pyrrole-3,6-diyl)bis(thiophene-5,2-diyl)]bis[2-(2-butyloctyl)isoindoline-1,3-dione] (PI-IsoDPP-PI) have been synthesized via Suzuki couplings using IsoDPP as a central building block and napthalimide or phthalimide as end-capping groups. The materials both exhibit good solubility in a wide range of organic solvents including chloroform (CF), dichloromethane (DCM), and tetrahydrofuran (THF), and have a high thermal stability. The new materials absorb in the wavelength range of 300–600 nm and both compounds have similar electron affinities, with the electron affinities that are compatible with their use as acceptors in donor-acceptor bulk heterojunction (BHJ) organic solar cells. BHJ devices comprising the NAI-IsoDPP-NAI acceptor with poly(3-n-hexylthiophene) (P3HT) as the donor were found to have a better performance than the PI-IsoDPP-PI containing cells, with the best device having a VOC of 0.92 V, a JSC of 1.7 mAcm−2, a FF of 63%, and a PCE of 0.97%.

scholarly journals Recent advances in high-performance organic solar cells enabled by acceptor–donor–acceptor–donor–acceptor (A–DA′D–A) type acceptors

2020 ◽  
Vol 4 (12) ◽  
pp. 3487-3504 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jiajun Zhao ◽  
Chao Yao ◽  
Muhammad Umair Ali ◽  
Jingsheng Miao ◽  
Hong Meng
Keyword(s):  
Molecular Structure ◽  
Solar Cells ◽  
Organic Solar Cells ◽  
High Performance ◽  
Photovoltaic Performance ◽  
Optoelectronic Properties ◽  
Recent Advances ◽  
Donor Acceptor

In this review, we focus on the recent advances in organic solar cells enabled by A–DA′D–A type acceptors and summarize the correlation between molecular structure, molecular packings, optoelectronic properties, and photovoltaic performance.

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