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NATURE PHOTONICS
Volume 14, Issue 5, Pages 300-+Publisher
NATURE PUBLISHING GROUP
DOI: 10.1038/s41566-019-0573-5
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- National Natural Science Foundation of China [51521002, 21875286, 51622302, 21733005]
- National Key Research & Development Projects of China [2017YFA0206600]
- Science Fund for Distinguished Young Scholars of Hunan Province [2017JJ1029]
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Energy loss within organic solar cells (OSCs) is undesirable as it reduces cell efficiency(1-4). In particular, non-radiative recombination loss(3) and energetic disorder(5), which are closely related to the tail states below the band edge and the overall photon energy loss, need to be minimized to improve cell performance. Here, we report how the use of a small-molecule acceptor with torsion-free molecular conformation can achieve a very low degree of energetic disorder and mitigate energy loss in OSCs. The resulting single-junction OSC has an energy loss due to non-radiative recombination of just 0.17 eV and a high power conversion efficiency of up to 16.54% (certified as 15.89% by the National Renewable Energy Laboratory). The findings take studies of organic photovoltaics deeper into a new regime, beyond the limits of energetic disorder and large energy offset for charge generation. An organic solar cell designed with minimal energetic disorder exhibits very low energy loss due to non-radiative recombination and highly efficient operation.
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