Single-Junction Organic Photovoltaic Cells with Approaching 18% Efficiency

被引:1642
作者
Cui, Yong [1 ,2 ]
Yao, Huifeng [1 ]
Zhang, Jianqi [3 ]
Xian, Kaihu [1 ,2 ]
Zhang, Tao [1 ]
Hong, Ling [1 ,2 ]
Wang, Yuming [1 ,4 ]
Xu, Ye [1 ,2 ]
Ma, Kangqiao [1 ]
An, Cunbin [1 ]
He, Chang [1 ]
Wei, Zhixiang [2 ,3 ]
Gao, Feng [4 ]
Hou, Jianhui [1 ,2 ]
机构
[1] Chinese Acad Sci, Inst Chem, CAS Res Educ Ctr Excellence Mol Sci, Beijing Natl Lab Mol Sci,State Key Lab Polymer Ph, Beijing 100190, Peoples R China
[2] Univ Chinese Acad Sci, Beijing 100049, Peoples R China
[3] Natl Ctr Nanosci & Technol, CAS Ctr Excellence Nanosci, CAS Key Lab Nanosyst & Hierarch Fabricat, Beijing 100190, Peoples R China
[4] Linkoping Univ, Dept Phys Chem & Biol, Linkoping, Sweden
基金
瑞典研究理事会; 中国国家自然科学基金; 中国博士后科学基金;
关键词
molecular modification; nonfullerene acceptors; organic photovoltaic cells; power conversion efficiency; POLYMER SOLAR-CELLS; ACCEPTOR;
D O I
10.1002/adma.201908205
中图分类号
O6 [化学];
学科分类号
0703 ;
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.
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