1. Enhanced photovoltaic performance of PM6/Y6-based organic solar cells by a wide-bandgap small molecule acceptor.
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Yang, Shu, Pan, Junxiu, Wu, Suxia, Luo, Dan, Shen, Xingxing, Peng, Fei, and Zhang, Yajie
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PHOTOVOLTAIC power systems , *SOLAR cells , *CONJUGATED polymers , *FRONTIER orbitals , *SMALL molecules , *OPEN-circuit voltage , *SHORT-circuit currents - Abstract
Considering rare researches on wide-bandgap nonfullerene acceptors for ternary organic solar cells (OSCs), we reported a small molecule acceptor ITCN as the second acceptor for constructing PM6/Y6/ITCN ternary devices with better photovoltaic performance in this work. ITCN exhibits a large bandgap of 2.19 eV and a higher LUMO (the lowest unoccupied molecular orbital) than Y6, resulting in complementary optical absorption in the short-wavelength region and increased open-circuit voltage (VOC). As the content of ITCN increases, the hole mobilities increase continuously and the electron mobilities increase to a maximum value. Moreover, the incorporation of ITCN improves the nanoscale morphology and charge transport property to some extent. From PM6/Y6-based binary device to PM6/Y6/ITCN-based ternary device, the power conversion efficiency is increased from 15.01 to 16.04% with simultaneously enhanced VOC, short-circuit current, and fill factor. These results indicate that the design of wide-bandgap acceptors for high-performance ternary OSCs is available. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2023
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