Isomerically Pure Benzothiophene-Incorporated Acceptor: Achieving Improved Voc and Jsc of Nonfullerene Organic Solar Cells via End Group Manipulation

SL Chang, KE Hung, FY Cao, KH Huang… - … applied materials & …, 2019 - ACS Publications
Benzene-based 1, 1-dicyanomethylene-3-indanone (IC) derivatives have been widely
utilized as the end-group to construct acceptor–donor–acceptor type nonfullerene acceptors …

Fused hexacyclic nonfullerene acceptor with strong near‐infrared absorption for semitransparent organic solar cells with 9.77% efficiency

W Wang, C Yan, TK Lau, J Wang, K Liu… - Advanced …, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
A fused hexacyclic electron acceptor, IHIC, based on strong electron‐donating group
dithienocyclopentathieno [3, 2‐b] thiophene flanked by strong electron‐withdrawing group 1 …

Extension of indacenodithiophene backbone conjugation enables efficient asymmetric A–D–A type non-fullerene acceptors

J Song, C Li, L Ye, C Koh, Y Cai, D Wei… - Journal of Materials …, 2018 - pubs.rsc.org
A novel strategy involving judiciously fusing one thiophene/thieno [3, 2-b] thiophene on only
one side of an indacenodithiophene (IDT) unit to extend IDT backbone conjugation was …

Tuning the dipole moments of nonfullerene acceptors with an asymmetric terminal strategy for highly efficient organic solar cells

M Li, Y Zhou, J Zhang, J Song, Z Bo - Journal of Materials Chemistry A, 2019 - pubs.rsc.org
The π–π stacking of terminal electron-deficient groups is known to support the main charge
transport pathway in acceptor–donor–acceptor type fused-ring electron acceptors (FREAs) …

Non-fullerene electron acceptors constructed by four strong electron-withdrawing end groups: Potential to improve the photoelectric performance of organic solar cells …

Y Yang, C Yao, L Li, M Bo, J Zhang, C Peng, Z Huang… - Dyes and …, 2020 - Elsevier
Recent advances in non-fullerene acceptors have enabled the power conversion
efficiencies of organic solar cells (OSCs) to exceed 16%. Fused-ring electron acceptors …

Small-molecule acceptors with long alkyl chains for high-performance as-cast nonfullerene organic solar cells

H Lin, MA Adil, Q Zhang, J Zhang, Q Wang - Organic Electronics, 2021 - Elsevier
Three fused-ring small-molecule electron acceptors, IDTC16-IC, IDTC16-Th, and IDTC16-
4F, were designed and synthesized by introducing indacenodithiophene (IDT) as the …

Asymmetric and Halogenated Fused‐Ring Electron Acceptor for Efficient Organic Solar Cells

J Cai, X Zhang, C Guo, Y Zhuang… - Advanced Functional …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Fused‐ring non‐fullerene electron acceptors (NFAs) boost the power conversion efficiencies
(PCEs) of organic solar cells (OSCs). Asymmetric and halogenated NFAs have drawn …

[HTML][HTML] Structural optimization of large acceptor–donor–acceptor-type molecules for improved performance of fullerene-free polymer solar cells

MJ Cho, GE Park, SY Park, YU Kim, DH Choi - RSC advances, 2017 - pubs.rsc.org
To control the molecular energy levels of highly π-extended n-type molecules, we
synthesized two acceptor–donor–acceptor (A–D–A)-type molecules with …

[HTML][HTML] Dithienonaphthalene-Based Non-fullerene Acceptors With Different Bandgaps for Organic Solar Cells

M Zhang, Y Ma, Q Zheng - Frontiers in Chemistry, 2018 - frontiersin.org
Compared to the traditional fullerene derivatives, non-fullerene acceptors show more
tunable absorption bands as well as adjustable energy levels which are favorable for further …

A‐D‐A Type Nonfullerene Acceptors Synthesized by Core Segmentation and Isomerization for Realizing Organic Solar Cells with Low Nonradiative Energy Loss

J Zhu, Z Qin, A Lan, S Jiang, J Mou, Y Ren, H Do… - Small, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Reducing non‐radiative recombination energy loss (ΔEnonrad) in organic solar cells
(OSCs) has been considered an effective method to improve device efficiency. In this study …