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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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Readily Accessible Benzo[d]thiazole Polymers for Nonfullerene Solar Cells with >16% Efficiency and Potential Pitfalls
摘要： Here we report facile, high-yield synthetic access to the difluoro BTA building block, 4,7-bis(5-bromo-4-(2-hexyl-decyl)-thiophen-2-yl)-5,6-difluoro-2-(pentadecan-7-yl)-benzo[d]thiazole (BTAT-2f) for use in Donor (D)-Acceptor 1(A1)-D-Acceptor 2(A2) polymers [D = bithiophene, A1 = BTA-2f, A2 = benzothiadiazole (BT) derivative] for organic solar cells (OSCs). Fine tuning of polymer optical and electronic properties is achieved by incrementally varying the A2 fluorination level. Bulk-heterojunction (BHJ) PBTATBT-4f:Y6 solar cells deliver a noteworthy power conversion (PCE) efficiency of 16.08 % (Voc =0.81 V, Jsc =27.25 mAcm-2, FF =72.70 %) without processing additives. In contrast, PBTATBT-2f:Y6 exhibits an irregular morphology and low PCE, ascribable to co-crystal formation-induced recombination, which is unprecedented for non-fullerene (NFA) OSCs. This result should be of guiding significance for future NFA design.
关键词： Benzo[d]thiazole Polymers,Power Conversion Efficiency,Organic Solar Cells,Co-crystal Formation,Nonfullerene Solar Cells
更新于2025-09-23 15:21:01
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Significantly enhanced electron transport of nonfullerene acceptor in blend film with high hole mobility polymer of high molecular weight: thick-film nonfullerene polymer solar cells showing high fill factor
摘要： Overcoming fill factor (FF) decay in thick fullerene active layers has been demonstrated with high hole mobility (μh) polymers. However, this issue remains as a challenge for thick active layers with nonfullerene acceptors. Here we demonstrate high FF and highly efficient nonfullerene based thick active layer with high μh polymer as the donor. Its relatively balanced hole and electron transports with a μh/μe ratio of 4.42 in 320 nm thick blend film are realized by the high molecular weight polymer induced higher electron mobility (μe approaching 1×10?3 cm2/(V s)) for the blend film. Relative to the pristine IEICO-4F nonfullerene film, 8 times increased μe for the blend film corresponds to closer interdigitation of IEICO-4F lamella and higher order face-on orientation of in-plain (200) peak of IEICO-4F molecules, which are very helpful for electron transport. As a result, solar cells with 320 nm thick binary nonfullerene active layers show outstanding FF over 70% and power conversion efficiency of 13.2%, a breakthrough for a high μh polymer as the donor. Our results suggest that high μh polymer donors are promising candidates for nonfullerene based polymer solar cells.
关键词： nonfullerene acceptor,thick-film polymer solar cells,fill factor,electron transport,high hole mobility polymer
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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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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Electrona??Deficient and Quinoid Central Unit Engineering for Unfused Ringa??Based A <sub/>1</sub> a??Da??A <sub/>2</sub> a??Da??A <sub/>1</sub> a??Type Acceptor Enables High Performance Nonfullerene Polymer Solar Cells with High <i>V</i> <sub/>oc</sub> and PCE Simultaneously
摘要： Here, a pair of A1–D–A2–D–A1 unfused ring core-based nonfullerene small molecule acceptors (NF-SMAs), BO2FIDT-4Cl and BT2FIDT-4Cl is synthesized, which possess the same terminals (A1) and indacenodithiophene unit (D), coupling with different fluorinated electron-deficient central unit (difluorobenzoxadiazole or difluorobenzothiadiazole) (A2). BT2FIDT-4Cl exhibits a slightly smaller optical bandgap of 1.56 eV, upshifted highest occupied molecular orbital energy levels, much higher electron mobility, and slightly enhanced molecular packing order in neat thin films than that of BO2FIDT-4Cl. The polymer solar cells (PSCs) based on BT2FIDT-4Cl:PM7 yield the best power conversion efficiency (PCE) of 12.5% with a Voc of 0.97 V, which is higher than that of BO2FIDT-4Cl-based devices (PCE of 10.4%). The results demonstrate that the subtle modification of A2 unit would result in lower trap-assisted recombination, more favorable morphology features, and more balanced electron and hole mobility in the PM7:BT2FIDT-4Cl blend films. It is worth mentioning that the PCE of 12.5% is the highest value in nonfused ring NF-SMA-based binary PSCs with high Voc over 0.90 V. These results suggest that appropriate modulation of the quinoid electron-deficient central unit is an effective approach to construct highly efficient unfused ring NF-SMAs to boost PCE and Voc simultaneously.
关键词： nonfullerene organic solar cells,unfused ring small molecular acceptors,polymer solar cells,electron-deficient central segment,difluorobenzothiadiazole
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