Asymmetrically Alkyl-Substituted Wide-Bandgap Nonfullerene Acceptor for Organic Solar Cells

Tian Xia; Chao Li; Hwa Sook Ryu; Xiaobo Sun; Han Young Woo; Yanming Sun

doi:10.1002/solr.202000061

Asymmetrically Alkyl-Substituted Wide-Bandgap Nonfullerene Acceptor for Organic Solar Cells

Tian Xia, Chao Li, Hwa Sook Ryu, Xiaobo Sun, Han Young Woo, Yanming Sun

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An asymmetric wide-bandgap (WBG) nonfullerene acceptor (C₆-IDTT-T) is developed by shearing one alkyl side-chain from a symmetrically alkyl-substituted indacenodithieno[3,2-b]thiophene (IDTT) core of the fused-ring electron acceptor 2C₆-IDTT-T. These two acceptors both exhibit wide optical bandgaps over 1.8 eV. Investigations on the optical, electrochemical, and active layer morphology are conducted to understand the effect of asymmetric side chains on the electrical and photovoltaic properties. Compared with symmetric 2C₆-IDTT-T, asymmetric C₆-IDTT-T is found to exhibit redshifted absorption and higher electron mobility. As a result, the C₆-IDTT-T blend with a thienothiophene-benzodithiophene copolymer (PTB7-Th) presents higher electron mobility and more balanced charge carrier transport, which leads to an enhanced power conversion efficiency of 8.51% for C₆-IDTT-T-based device with a high open-circuit voltage of 1.052 V and a low energy loss of 0.60 eV.

Original language	English
Article number	2000061
Journal	Solar RRL
Volume	4
Issue number	5
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1002/solr.202000061
Publication status	Published - 2020 May 1

Keywords

alkyl tailoring strategy
asymmetric nonfullerene acceptors
efficiency
open-circuit voltages
wide bandgaps

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Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics
Energy Engineering and Power Technology
Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials
Electrical and Electronic Engineering

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