An Electron Acceptor with Broad Visible-NIR Absorption and Unique Solid State Packing for As-Cast High Performance Binary Organic Solar Cells

被引:115
作者
Shi, Xueliang [1 ]
Liao, Xunfan [1 ,2 ]
Gao, Ke [1 ]
Zuo, Lijian [1 ]
Chen, Jingde [1 ]
Zhao, Jingbo [1 ]
Liu, Feng [3 ]
Chen, Yiwang [2 ]
Jen, Alex K-Y. [1 ,4 ,5 ]
机构
[1] Univ Washington, Dept Mat Sci & Engn, Seattle, WA 98195 USA
[2] Nanchang Univ, Coll Chem, Inst Polymers, Nanchang 330031, Jiangxi, Peoples R China
[3] Shanghai Jiao Tong Univ, Dept Phys & Astron, Shanghai 200240, Peoples R China
[4] City Univ Hong Kong, Dept Chem, Kowloon 999077, Hong Kong, Peoples R China
[5] City Univ Hong Kong, Dept Mat Sci & Engn, Kowloon 999077, Hong Kong, Peoples R China
关键词
near-infrared semiconductors; nonfullerene acceptors; organic solar cells; X-ray diffraction; NON-FULLERENE ACCEPTORS; LOW ENERGY-LOSSES; BAND-GAP; 13-PERCENT EFFICIENCY; PHASE-SEPARATION; POLYMER; DESIGN;
D O I
10.1002/adfm.201802324
中图分类号
O6 [化学];
学科分类号
0703 ;
摘要
A novel acceptor-donor-acceptor (A-D-A) type electron acceptor 6TIC-4F with terthieno[3,2-b]thiophene (6T) as the core unit is rationally designed and synthesized, which exhibits an extraordinarily narrow bandgap (approximate to 1.24 eV) and strong absorption between 650 and 1000 nm. X-ray crystallographic analysis reveals that it has unique intermolecular pi-pi stacking. The solar cells based on the as-cast poly[(2,6-(4,8-bis(5-(2-ethylhexyl) thiophen-2-yl)-benzo[1,2-b: 4,5-b'] dithiophene))-alt-(5,5-(1',3'-di-2-thienyl-5',7'-bis(2-ethylhexyl) benzo[1',2'c: 4',5'-c']dithiophene-4,8-dione))]) (PBDB-T): 6TIC-4F binary blends exhibit an excellent power conversion efficiency (PCE) of 11.14% with a high J(SC) of 23.00 mA cm(-2), and a high fill factor of 0.67, which represents one of the best PCE values for low bandgap (E-g < 1.3 eV)-based organic solar cells.
引用
收藏
页数:8
相关论文
共 51 条
[1]   Molecular Understanding of Organic Solar Cells: The Challenges [J].
Bredas, Jean-Luc ;
Norton, Joseph E. ;
Cornil, Jerome ;
Coropceanu, Veaceslav .
ACCOUNTS OF CHEMICAL RESEARCH, 2009, 42 (11) :1691-1699
[2]   Low band gap polymers for organic photovoltaics [J].
Bundgaard, Eva ;
Krebs, Frederik C. .
SOLAR ENERGY MATERIALS AND SOLAR CELLS, 2007, 91 (11) :954-985
[3]   Recombination in polymer-fullerene bulk heterojunction solar cells [J].
Cowan, Sarah R. ;
Roy, Anshuman ;
Heeger, Alan J. .
PHYSICAL REVIEW B, 2010, 82 (24)
[4]   Efficient Semitransparent Organic Solar Cells with Tunable Color enabled by an Ultralow-Bandgap Nonfullerene Acceptor [J].
Cui, Yong ;
Yang, Chenyi ;
Yao, Huifeng ;
Zhu, Jie ;
Wang, Yuming ;
Jia, Guoxiao ;
Gao, Feng ;
Hou, Jianhui .
ADVANCED MATERIALS, 2017, 29 (43)
[5]   Fine-Tuned Photoactive and Interconnection Layers for Achieving over 13% Efficiency in a Fullerene-Free Tandem Organic Solar Cell [J].
Cui, Yong ;
Yao, Huifeng ;
Gao, Bowei ;
Qin, Yunpeng ;
Zhang, Shaoqing ;
Yang, Bei ;
He, Chang ;
Xu, Bowei ;
Hou, Jianhui .
JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY, 2017, 139 (21) :7302-7309
[6]   Enhancing the Performance of Polymer Solar Cells via Core Engineering of NIR-Absorbing Electron Acceptors [J].
Dai, Shuixing ;
Li, Tengfei ;
Wang, Wei ;
Xiao, Yiqun ;
Lau, Tsz-Ki ;
Li, Zeyuan ;
Liu, Kuan ;
Lu, Xinhui ;
Zhan, Xiaowei .
ADVANCED MATERIALS, 2018, 30 (15)
[7]   Cross-Linkable and Dual Functional Hybrid Polymeric Electron Transporting Layer for High-Performance Inverted Polymer Solar Cells [J].
Dong, Sheng ;
Hu, Zhicheng ;
Zhang, Kai ;
Yin, Qingwu ;
Jiang, Xiaofang ;
Huang, Fei ;
Cao, Yong .
ADVANCED MATERIALS, 2017, 29 (34)
[8]   Low-Bandgap Near-IR Conjugated Polymers/Molecules for Organic Electronics [J].
Dou, Letian ;
Liu, Yongsheng ;
Hong, Ziruo ;
Li, Gang ;
Yang, Yang .
CHEMICAL REVIEWS, 2015, 115 (23) :12633-12665
[9]   Toward Practical Useful Polymers for Highly Efficient Solar Cells via a Random Copolymer Approach [J].
Duan, Chunhui ;
Gao, Ke ;
van Franeker, Jacobus J. ;
Liu, Feng ;
Wienk, Martijn M. ;
Janssen, Rene A. J. .
JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY, 2016, 138 (34) :10782-10785
[10]   High-Performance Nonfullerene Polymer Solar Cells based on Imide-Functionalized Wide-Bandgap Polymers [J].
Fan, Baobing ;
Zhang, Kai ;
Jiang, Xiao-Fang ;
Ying, Lei ;
Huang, Fei ;
Cao, Yong .
ADVANCED MATERIALS, 2017, 29 (21)