A Fused Ring Electron Acceptor with Decacyclic Core Enables over 13.5% Efficiency for Organic Solar Cells
Abstract
Abstract Extending π‐conjugation of donor units in fused ring electron acceptors (FREAs) promises to reinforce intramolecular charge transfer for smaller bandgaps, and enhances intermolecular interactions for higher charge mobility. Despite these advantages, power conversion efficiencies (PCEs) of FREAs with a large planar donor core are still below 12%. Herein, a fused decacyclic donor unit, IDC, is developed, and the FREA, IDCIC, whose optical bandgap is 1.45 eV, is synthesized. The FTAZ:IDCIC‐based organic solar cell (OSC) with a binary additive, chloronaphthalene and 1,8‐diiodooctane (CN&DIO), affords a remarkable PCE of 13.58%, which is among the highest efficiencies of OSCs. The binary additive plays a crucial role in the morphology of FTAZ:IDCIC‐based OSCs. The addition of DIO promotes IDCIC to aggregate and enhances domain size and domain purity in FTAZ:IDCIC blend film for its poor solubility in DIO, while the addition of chloronaphthalene (CN) inhibits the aggregation, facilitates IDCIC to diffuse into the donor, and reduces domain size and domain purity for its excellent solubility in CN. The binary additive, CN&DIO, compromises the effect of the two; thus FTAZ:IDCIC‐based OSCs with 0.25% CN&DIO obtain moderate domain size and high domain purity simultaneously, achieving the least charge recombination for the highest J SC (21.98more »
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- Institute of Chemistry Chinese Academy of Sciences Beijing 100190 China
- State Key Laboratory for Mechanical Behavior of Materials Xi'an Jiaotong University Xi'an 710049 China
- Department of Chemistry University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Chapel Hill NC 27599‐3290 USA
- Key Laboratory of Nanosystem and Hierarchical Fabrication National Center for Nanoscience and Technology Beijing 100190 China
- School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering Henan Normal University Xinxiang 453007 China
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- Journal Name:
- Advanced Energy Materials
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- Journal Name: Advanced Energy Materials Journal Volume: 8 Journal Issue: 30; Journal ID: ISSN 1614-6832
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- Wiley Blackwell (John Wiley & Sons)
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- Germany
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- English
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He, Dan, Zhao, Fuwen, Xin, Jingming, Rech, Jeromy James, Wei, Zhixiang, Ma, Wei, You, Wei, Li, Bao, Jiang, Li, Li, Yongfang, and Wang, Chunru. A Fused Ring Electron Acceptor with Decacyclic Core Enables over 13.5% Efficiency for Organic Solar Cells. Germany: N. p., 2018.
Web. doi:10.1002/aenm.201802050.
He, Dan, Zhao, Fuwen, Xin, Jingming, Rech, Jeromy James, Wei, Zhixiang, Ma, Wei, You, Wei, Li, Bao, Jiang, Li, Li, Yongfang, & Wang, Chunru. A Fused Ring Electron Acceptor with Decacyclic Core Enables over 13.5% Efficiency for Organic Solar Cells. Germany. https://doi.org/10.1002/aenm.201802050
He, Dan, Zhao, Fuwen, Xin, Jingming, Rech, Jeromy James, Wei, Zhixiang, Ma, Wei, You, Wei, Li, Bao, Jiang, Li, Li, Yongfang, and Wang, Chunru. Fri .
"A Fused Ring Electron Acceptor with Decacyclic Core Enables over 13.5% Efficiency for Organic Solar Cells". Germany. https://doi.org/10.1002/aenm.201802050.
@article{osti_1471127,
title = {A Fused Ring Electron Acceptor with Decacyclic Core Enables over 13.5% Efficiency for Organic Solar Cells},
author = {He, Dan and Zhao, Fuwen and Xin, Jingming and Rech, Jeromy James and Wei, Zhixiang and Ma, Wei and You, Wei and Li, Bao and Jiang, Li and Li, Yongfang and Wang, Chunru},
abstractNote = {Abstract Extending π‐conjugation of donor units in fused ring electron acceptors (FREAs) promises to reinforce intramolecular charge transfer for smaller bandgaps, and enhances intermolecular interactions for higher charge mobility. Despite these advantages, power conversion efficiencies (PCEs) of FREAs with a large planar donor core are still below 12%. Herein, a fused decacyclic donor unit, IDC, is developed, and the FREA, IDCIC, whose optical bandgap is 1.45 eV, is synthesized. The FTAZ:IDCIC‐based organic solar cell (OSC) with a binary additive, chloronaphthalene and 1,8‐diiodooctane (CN&DIO), affords a remarkable PCE of 13.58%, which is among the highest efficiencies of OSCs. The binary additive plays a crucial role in the morphology of FTAZ:IDCIC‐based OSCs. The addition of DIO promotes IDCIC to aggregate and enhances domain size and domain purity in FTAZ:IDCIC blend film for its poor solubility in DIO, while the addition of chloronaphthalene (CN) inhibits the aggregation, facilitates IDCIC to diffuse into the donor, and reduces domain size and domain purity for its excellent solubility in CN. The binary additive, CN&DIO, compromises the effect of the two; thus FTAZ:IDCIC‐based OSCs with 0.25% CN&DIO obtain moderate domain size and high domain purity simultaneously, achieving the least charge recombination for the highest J SC (21.98 mA cm −2 ) and fill factor (FF) (71.03%).},
doi = {10.1002/aenm.201802050},
journal = {Advanced Energy Materials},
number = 30,
volume = 8,
place = {Germany},
year = {Fri Sep 14 00:00:00 EDT 2018},
month = {Fri Sep 14 00:00:00 EDT 2018}
}
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