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Progress of the key materials for organic solar cells
摘要： Organic solar cells have attracted academic and industrial interests due to the advantages like lightweight, flexibility and roll-to-roll fabrication. Nowadays, 18% power conversion efficiency has been achieved in the state-of-the-art organic solar cells. The recent rapid progress in organic solar cells relies on the continuously emerging new materials and device fabrication technologies, and the deep understanding on film morphology, molecular packing and device physics. Donor and acceptor materials are the key materials for organic solar cells since they determine the device performance. The past 25 years have witnessed an odyssey in developing high-performance donors and acceptors. In this review, we focus on those star materials and milestone work, and introduce the molecular structure evolution of key materials. These key materials include homopolymer donors, D-A copolymer donors, A-D-A small molecular donors, fullerene acceptors and nonfullerene acceptors. At last, we outlook the challenges and very important directions in key materials development.
关键词： D-A copolymer donors,nonfullerene acceptors,key materials,organic solar cells,fullerene acceptors
更新于2025-09-23 15:21:01
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Asymmetric Electron Acceptors for Higha??Efficiency and Lowa??Energya??Loss Organic Photovoltaics
摘要： Low energy loss and efficient charge separation under small driving forces are the prerequisites for realizing high power conversion efficiency (PCE) in organic photovoltaics (OPVs). Here, a new molecular design of nonfullerene acceptors (NFAs) is proposed to address above two issues simultaneously by introducing asymmetric terminals. Two NFAs, BTP-S1 and BTP-S2, are constructed by introducing halogenated indandione (A1) and 3-dicyanomethylene-1-indanone (A2) as two different conjugated terminals on the central fused core (D), wherein they share the same backbone as well-known NFA Y6, but at different terminals. Such asymmetric NFAs with A1-D-A2 structure exhibit superior photovoltaic properties when blended with polymer donor PM6. Energy loss analysis reveals that asymmetric molecule BTP-S2 with six chlorine atoms attached at the terminals enables the corresponding devices to give an outstanding electroluminescence quantum efficiency of 2.3 × 10?2%, one order of magnitude higher than devices based on symmetric Y6 (4.4 × 10?3%), thus significantly lowering the nonradiative loss and energy loss of the corresponding devices. Besides, asymmetric BTP-S1 and BTP-S2 with multiple halogen atoms at the terminals exhibit fast hole transfer to the donor PM6. As a result, OPVs based on the PM6:BTP-S2 blend realize a PCE of 16.37%, higher than that (15.79%) of PM6:Y6-based OPVs. A further optimization of the ternary blend (PM6:Y6:BTP-S2) results in a best PCE of 17.43%, which is among the highest efficiencies for single-junction OPVs. This work provides an effective approach to simultaneously lower the energy loss and promote the charge separation of OPVs by molecular design strategy.
关键词： asymmetric acceptors,molecular design strategies,nonfullerene acceptors,charge separation,organic photovoltaics
更新于2025-09-23 15:21:01
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Single-Junction Organic Photovoltaic Cells with Approaching 18% Efficiency
摘要： Optimizing the molecular structures of organic photovoltaic (OPV) materials is one of the most effective methods to boost power conversion efficiencies (PCEs). For an excellent molecular system with a certain conjugated skeleton, fine tuning the alky chains is of considerable significance to fully explore its photovoltaic potential. In this work, the optimization of alkyl chains is performed on a chlorinated nonfullerene acceptor (NFA) named BTP-4Cl-BO (a Y6 derivative) and very impressive photovoltaic parameters in OPV cells are obtained. To get more ordered intermolecular packing, the n-undecyl is shortened at the edge of BTP-eC11 to n-nonyl and n-heptyl. As a result, the NFAs of BTP-eC9 and BTP-eC7 are synthesized. The BTP-eC7 shows relatively poor solubility and thus limits its application in device fabrication. Fortunately, the BTP-eC9 possesses good solubility and, at the same time, enhanced electron transport property than BTP-eC11. Significantly, due to the simultaneously enhanced short-circuit current density and fill factor, the BTP-eC9-based single-junction OPV cells record a maximum PCE of 17.8% and get a certified value of 17.3%. These results demonstrate that minimizing the alkyl chains to get suitable solubility and enhanced intermolecular packing has a great potential in further improving its photovoltaic performance.
关键词： nonfullerene acceptors,organic photovoltaic cells,molecular modification,power conversion efficiency
更新于2025-09-23 15:21:01
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Suppressing the Photocatalytic Activity of Zinc Oxide Electron-Transport Layer in Nonfullerene Organic Solar Cells with a Pyrene-Bodipy Interlayer
摘要： Organic solar cells based on nonfullerene acceptors have recently witnessed a significant rise in their power conversion efficiency values. However, they still suffer from severe instability issues, especially in an inverted device architecture based on the zinc oxide bottom electron transport layers. In this work, we insert a pyrene-bodipy donor?acceptor dye as a thin interlayer at the photoactive layer/zinc oxide interface to suppress the degradation reaction of the nonfullerene acceptor caused by the photocatalytic activity of zinc oxide. In particular, the pyrene-bodipy-based interlayer inhibits the direct contact between the nonfullerene acceptor and zinc oxide hence preventing the decomposition of the former by zinc oxide under illumination with UV light. As a result, the device photostability was significantly improved. The π?π interaction between the nonfullerene acceptor and the bodipy part of the interlayer facilitates charge transfer from the nonfullerene acceptor toward pyrene, which is followed by intramolecular charge transfer to bodipy part and then to zinc oxide. The bodipy-pyrene modified zinc oxide also increased the degree of crystallization of the photoactive blend and the face-on stacking of the polymer donor molecules within the blend hence contributing to both enhanced charge transport and increased absorption of the incident light. Furthermore, it decreased the surface work function as well as surface energy of the zinc oxide film all impacting in improved power conversion efficiency values of the fabricated cells with champion devices reaching values up to 9.86 and 11.80% for the fullerene and nonfullerene-based devices, respectively.
关键词： bodipy,zinc oxide,photocatalytic activity,pyrene,organic solar cells,photostability,nonfullerene acceptors
更新于2025-09-23 15:21:01
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Exploiting ternary blends for improved photostability in high efficiency organic solar cells
摘要： Ternary organic solar cells based on polymer donor and nonfullerene acceptors (NFAs) are delivering high power conversion efficiencies (PCE). Now, further improvement needs to be directed to enhance the operational lifetime of organic photovoltaics. Here, we selected three NFAs with different electron affinities and structural properties and found that the most crystalline third component, O-IDTBR, is selectively miscible within the acceptor phase. This reduced trap-assisted recombination and delivered a PCE of 16.6% and a fill factor of 0.76, compared to PM6:Y6 binary devices (15.2% PCE). Charge transport and recombination analyses revealed that O-IDTBR acts as a charge relay for improved charge transfer of both donor and acceptor materials leading to a more ordered transport. We find that minimizing traps formation in ternary devices deactivates light-induced traps upon full sun illumination (AM1.5G). As a result, ternary devices do not show any PCE drop in 225h, in comparison to binary cells which lose more than 60% of their initial performances.
关键词： photostability,nonfullerene acceptors,ternary organic solar cells,power conversion efficiency,charge transport
更新于2025-09-23 15:21:01
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Axisymmetric and Asymmetric Naphthalene-Bisthienothiophene Based Nonfullerene Acceptors: on Constitutional Isomerization and Photovoltaic Performance
摘要： Two pairs of constitutional isomers of fused-octacyclic nonfullerene acceptors (NFAs) based on a naphthalene-bisthienothiophene core with or without fluorination at the ending groups have been developed. Compared with the axisymmetric NFAs N66-IC and N66-2FIC with two six-member-ring bridges, their asymmetric constitutional isomers N65-IC and N65-2FIC both with one six-member-ring bridge and one five-member-ring bridge exhibit remarkable red-shifted absorption, higher crystallinity, and slightly down-shifted LUMO energy levels. Organic solar cells based on PBDB-T-2F:N65-2FIC achieved a promising power conversion efficiency of 10.19%, which is three times higher than that of its counterpart PBDB-T-2F:N66-2FIC cell (3.46%). While being blended with PBDB-T as the donor material, the asymmetric acceptor analogue N65-IC based solar cell pronounces a PCE of 9.03%, being significantly improved from that of 5.45% for the PBDB-T:N66-IC based cell, which is in consistency with the results from those cells from their both fluorinated donor and acceptor counterparts. Design rules on either both fluorinated, both non-fluorinated, or cross-combined donor/acceptors for device fabrication has been explored. In addition, PBDB-T-2F:N65-2FIC possesses very promising device stability with 85% of its initial PCE after an exposure time of 1500 h under one sun illumination, which is meaningful for their future commercial devices.
关键词： isomerization,naphthalene,organic solar cells,nonfullerene acceptors,asymmetry,axisymmetry
更新于2025-09-23 15:21:01
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Toward Efficient Triple-Junction Polymer Solar Cells through Rational Selection of Middle Cells
摘要： The photon energy losses of polymer solar cells (PSCs) routinely drag their experimental power conversion efficiencies (PCEs) far below the theoretical limits. We report herein efficient triple-junction PSCs (TJ-PSCs) with mitigated energy losses through rational selection of subcells. We reveal that avoiding strong photon competition between the front and middle cells is critical in balancing the absorption rate among subcells with realistic layer thicknesses. Efficient TJ-PSCs are achieved by stacking a front cell of PBDB-T-2F:PC71BM, a middle cell of PBDB-T:HF-TCIC, and a rear cell of PTB7-Th: IEICO-4F in series and connecting them with two functional interconnection layers. A PCE of 13.09% is obtained from champion devices, representing one of the best TJ-PSCs among the reported studies. It accounts for a 35% improvement in efficiency over those of single-junction PSCs with the same absorption range, which is mainly attributed to the reduced nonabsorbing and thermalization losses of TJ-PSCs.
关键词： polymer solar cells,photon energy losses,power conversion efficiencies,nonfullerene acceptors,triple-junction
更新于2025-09-23 15:21:01
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Perylene Diimide Based Conjugated Polymers for All Polymer Solar Cells
摘要： For recent decades, non-fullerene acceptors (NFAs) are undergoing rapid development and emerging as a hot area in the field of organic solar cells. Among the high performance nonfullerene acceptors, aromatic diimide based electron acceptors remain to be the highly promising systems. This review discusses the important progress of perylene diimide (PDI)-based polymers as nonfullerene acceptors (NFAs) in all polymer solar cells (all-PSCs) since 2014. The relationship between structure and property, matching aspects between donors and acceptors and device fabrications are unveiled from a synthetic chemist perspective.
关键词： nonfullerene acceptors (NFA),all-polymer solar cells (all-PSCs),energy levels,perylene diimide (PDI),PCE
更新于2025-09-23 15:21:01
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Synthesis and Characterization of Wide-Bandgap Conjugated Polymers Consisting of Same Electron Donor and Different Electron-Deficient Units and Their Application for Nonfullerene Polymer Solar Cells
摘要： Substantial development has been made in nonfullerene small molecule acceptors (NFSMAs) that has resulted in a significant increase in the power conversion efficiency (PCE) of nonfullerene-based polymer solar cells (PSCs). In order to achieve better compatibility with narrow-bandgap nonfullerene small molecule acceptors, it is important to design the conjugated polymers with a wide bandgap that has suitable molecular orbital energy levels. Here two donor–acceptor (D–A)-conjugated copolymers are designed and synthesized with the same thienyl-substituted benzodithiophene and different acceptors, i.e., poly{(4,8-bis(5-(2-ethylhexyl)thiophen-2-yl)benzo[1,2-b:4,5-b′]dithiophene-2,6-diyl)-alt-(1,3-bis(2-octyldodecyl)-1,3-dihydro-2H-dithieno[3′,2′:3,4;2″,3″:5,6]benzo[1,2-d]imidazol-2-one-5,8-diyl)} (DTBIA, P1) and poly{(4,8-bis(5-(2-ethylhexyl)thiophen-2-yl)benzo[1,2-b:4,5-b′]dithiophene-2,6-diyl)-alt-(2-(5-(3-octyltridecyl)thiophen-2-yl)dithieno[3′,2′:3,4;2″,3″:5,6]benzo[1,2-d]thiazole-5,8-diyl)} (TDTBTA, P2) (and their optical and electrochemical properties are investigated). Both P1 and P2 exhibit similar deeper highest occupied molecular orbital energy level and different lowest unoccupied molecular orbital energy level. Both the copolymers have complementary absorption with a well-known nonfullerene acceptor ITIC-F. When blended with a narrow-bandgap acceptor ITIC-F, the PSCs based on P1 show a power conversion efficiency of 11.18% with a large open-circuit voltage of 0.96 V, a Jsc of 16.89 mA cm?2, and a fill factor (FF) of 0.69, which is larger than that for P2 counterpart (PCE = 9.32%, Jsc = 15.88 mA cm?2, Voc = 0.91 V, and FF = 0.645). Moreover, the energy losses for the PSCs based on P1 and P2 are 0.54 and 0.59 eV, respectively. Compared to P2, the P1-based PSCs show high values of incident photon to current conversion efficiency (IPCE) in the shorter-wavelength region (absorption of donor copolymer), more balanced hole and electron mobilities, and favorable phase separation with compact π–π stacking distance.
关键词： solvent vapor annealing,polymer solar cells,nonfullerene acceptors,wide-bandgap polymers
更新于2025-09-23 15:19:57
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Narrowbanda??Absorptiona??Type Organic Photodetectors for the Fara??Red Range Based on Fullerenea??Free Bulk Heterojunctions
摘要： Spectrally-selective photodetection via organic semiconductors manifesting narrowband absorption (NBA photodetection) is highly attractive for emerging applications that require ultrathin, lightweight, and low-cost solutions. While successful over mainstream color bands, NBA photodetectors have struggled so far to meet the functional and/or performance demands at longer wavelengths, importantly in the far-red (700–750 nm), a range relevant to diverse applications in analytical biology, medical diagnostics, remote sensing, etc. In consideration of the potential of a nonfullerene-acceptor route to address this challenge, the narrowband photodetection capabilities of SBDTIC, a recently-developed benzodithiophene-based acceptor with narrowband absorption in the far-red, are explored. Two bulk-heterojunction NBA configurations are considered, in which SBDTIC is combined with a donor either absorbing also in the far-red, or transparent through the visible. It is found that the latter configuration provides superior narrowband functionality, with peak detectivity of 1.42 × 1013 Jones and spectral width of 141 nm—the highest detectivity to date for NBA far-red-selective photodetectors, and the smallest spectral width of all solution-processed implementations. In self-powered operation, such photodetectors additionally present a quasilinear response over a photocurrent range of least four orders of magnitude, and respond in the microsecond range, further evidencing the suitability of this approach to address the wealth of target applications.
关键词： far-red,nonfullerene acceptors,narrowband-absorption photodetectors,organic photodetectors,narrowband photodetectors
更新于2025-09-23 15:19:57