Non-fullerene electron acceptors for use in organic solar cells

CB Nielsen, S Holliday, HY Chen… - Accounts of chemical …, 2015 - ACS Publications
Conspectus The active layer in a solution processed organic photovoltaic device comprises
a light absorbing electron donor semiconductor, typically a polymer, and an electron …

Recent progress in non-fullerene small molecule acceptors in organic solar cells (OSCs)

W Chen, Q Zhang - Journal of Materials Chemistry C, 2017 - pubs.rsc.org
Power conversion efficiency (PCE) has surpassed 10% for single junction organic solar cells
(OSCs) mainly through the design and synthesis of novel donor materials, the optimization …

High-performance fullerene-free polymer solar cells with 6.31% efficiency

Y Lin, ZG Zhang, H Bai, J Wang, Y Yao, Y Li… - Energy & …, 2015 - pubs.rsc.org
A nonfullerene electron acceptor (IEIC) based on indaceno [1, 2-b: 5, 6-b′] dithiophene and
2-(3-oxo-2, 3-dihydroinden-1-ylidene) malononitrile was designed and synthesized. IEIC …

Asymmetric nonfullerene small molecule acceptors for organic solar cells

C Li, H Fu, T Xia, Y Sun - Advanced Energy Materials, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Symmetry breaking provides a new material design strategy for nonfullerene small molecule
acceptors (SMAs). The past 10 years have witnessed significant advances in asymmetric …

Non-fullerene acceptors for organic photovoltaics: an emerging horizon

Y Lin, X Zhan - Materials Horizons, 2014 - pubs.rsc.org
Although fullerenes and their derivatives, such as PCBM, have been the dominant electron-
acceptor materials in organic photovoltaic cells (OPVs), they suffer from some …

A spirobifluorene and diketopyrrolopyrrole moieties based non-fullerene acceptor for efficient and thermally stable polymer solar cells with high open-circuit voltage

S Li, W Liu, M Shi, J Mai, TK Lau, J Wan, X Lu… - Energy & …, 2016 - pubs.rsc.org
In this study, we design and synthesize a new non-fullerene electron acceptor, SF (DPPB) 4,
in which a spirobifluorene (SF) core is installed with four benzene endcapped …

Efficient organic solar cells with helical perylene diimide electron acceptors

Y Zhong, MT Trinh, R Chen, W Wang… - Journal of the …, 2014 - ACS Publications
We report an efficiency of 6.1% for a solution-processed non-fullerene solar cell using a
helical perylene diimide (PDI) dimer as the electron acceptor. Femtosecond transient …

[PDF][PDF] A tetraphenylethylene core‐based 3D structure small molecular acceptor enabling efficient non‐fullerene organic solar cells

Y Liu, C Mu, K Jiang, J Zhao, Y Li, L Zhang, Z Li… - Advanced …, 2015 - academia.edu
DOI: 10.1002/adma. 201404152 domains (as large as 1 µm) in BHJ films.[15, 19] To prevent
the aggregation of SM acceptors, SMs with twisted structures or with bulky bridging units …

[PDF][PDF] Integrated molecular, interfacial, and device engineering towards high-performance non-fullerene based organic solar cells

Y Zang, CZ Li, CC Chueh, ST Williams, W Jiang… - Adv …, 2014 - cn.rylene-wang.com
DOI: 10.1002/adma. 201401992 they hold the advantages of easier accessibility and
purification that warrants better reproducibility. In addition to developing suitable non …

A planar electron acceptor for efficient polymer solar cells

Y Wu, H Bai, Z Wang, P Cheng, S Zhu… - Energy & …, 2015 - pubs.rsc.org
A novel planar acceptor IDT-2BR was designed and synthesized. Polymer solar cells
(PSCs) based on P3HT: IDT-2BR blended films gave power conversion efficiencies of up to …