Low-bandgap nonfullerene acceptor based on thieno[3,2-b]indole core for highly efficient binary and ternary organic solar cells

被引:28
作者
Xie, Liang [1 ]
Zhang, Yang [2 ]
Zhuang, Wenliu [3 ,4 ]
Jeong, Sang Young [5 ]
Bian, Qingzhen [6 ]
Li, Huangfen [1 ]
Cao, Jiamin [1 ]
Liu, Wanqing [1 ]
Tan, Hua [7 ]
Woo, Han Young [5 ]
Zhang, Jian [2 ]
Wang, Ergang [4 ,8 ]
机构
[1] Hunan Univ Sci & Technol, Sch Chem & Chem Engn, Key Lab Theoret Organ Chem & Funct Mol,Minist Edu, Hunan Prov Key Lab Controllable Preparat & Funct, Xiangtan 411201, Peoples R China
[2] Guilin Univ Elect Technol, Engn Res Ctr Elect Informat Mat & Devices, Sch Mat Sci & Engn, Guangxi Key Lab Informat Mat,Minist Educ, 1st Jinji Rd, Guilin 541004, Peoples R China
[3] Guangdong Ind Polytech, Adv Res Ctr Polymer Proc Engn Guangdong Prov, Guangzhou 510300, Peoples R China
[4] Chalmers Univ Technol, Dept Chem & Chem Engn Appl Chem, SE-41296 Gothenburg, Sweden
[5] Korea Univ, KU KIST Grad Sch Converging Sci & Technol, Dept Chem, Anam Ro 145, Seoul 02841, South Korea
[6] Linkoping Univ, Dept Phys Chem & Biol IFM, Biomol & Organ Elect, S-58183 Linkoping, Sweden
[7] Changzhou Univ, Natl Expt Demonstrat Ctr Mat Sci & Engn, Jiangsu Collaborat Innovat Ctr Photovolta Sci & E, Sch Mat Sci & Engn,Jiangsu Engn Lab Light Elect H, Changzhou 213164, Peoples R China
[8] Zhengzhou Univ, Sch Mat Sci & Engn, Zhengzhou 450001, Peoples R China
基金
新加坡国家研究基金会; 瑞典研究理事会; 中国国家自然科学基金;
关键词
Frontier energy levels; Nonfullerene acceptors; Organic solar cells; Power conversion efficiency; Thieno[3; 2-b]indole; NON-FULLERENE ACCEPTORS; ELECTRON-ACCEPTOR; CONJUGATED POLYMERS; PERFORMANCE; DESIGN; DONOR;
D O I
10.1016/j.cej.2021.131674
中图分类号
X [环境科学、安全科学];
学科分类号
08 ; 0830 ;
摘要
A low-bandgap nonfullerene acceptor (NFA) TIT-2FIC based on thieno[3,2-b]indole-thiophenes core has been developed. Compared with the analogue NFAs DTC(4Ph)-4FIC and IT-4F, TIT-2FIC exhibited remarkably red shifted absorption, and up-shifted HOMO energy level. In addition, TIT-2FIC showed interesting universal miscibility with the donors nonfluorinated PBDB-T and fluorinated PM6, therefore the corresponding organic solar cells achieved promising power conversion efficiencies (PCEs) of 11.80% and 13.00%, respectively, which are higher compared to the counterpart IT-4F based cells. Furthermore, the ternary PM6:TIT-2FIC:Y6 cell pronounced a high PCE of 17.22%, being significantly improved from that of 16.04% for the binary PM6:Y6 cell. Similar improvement in PCEs from 13.41% to 14.46% was also observed in the ternary PM6:TIT-2FIC:IT-4F cell with TIT-2FIC as the third component. These results indicated that TIT-2FIC is universally applicable as an acceptor with nonfluorinated or fluorinated polymer donor materials in both binary and ternary cells.
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