1. A Wide-Bandgap Donor Polymer for Highly Efficient Non-fullerene Organic Solar Cells with a Small Voltage Loss.
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Shangshang Chen, Yuhang Liu, Lin Zhang, Chow, Philip C. Y., Zheng Wang, Guangye Zhang, Wei Ma, and He Yan
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SOLAR cells , *ARTIFICIAL photosynthesis , *COMPOUND parabolic concentrators , *CYTOLOGY , *CHARGE exchange - Abstract
To achieve efficient non-fullerene organic solar cells, it is important to reduce the voltage loss from the optical bandgap to the open-circuit voltage of the cell. Here we report a highly efficient non-fullerene organic solar cell with a high open-circuit voltage of 1.08 V and a small voltage loss of 0.55 V. The high performance was enabled by a novel wide-bandgap (2.05 eV) donor polymer paired with a narrow-bandgap (1.63 eV) small-molecular acceptor (SMA). Our morphology characterizations show that both the polymer and the SMA can maintain high crystallinity in the blend film, resulting in crystalline and small domains. As a result, our nonfullerene organic solar cells realize an efficiency of 11.6%, which is the best performance for a non-fullerene organic solar cell with such a small voltage loss. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2017
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