Journal
ADVANCED MATERIALS
Volume 35, Issue 3, Pages -Publisher
WILEY-V C H VERLAG GMBH
DOI: 10.1002/adma.202207336
Keywords
charge-carrier recombination; extending donor units; nonfullerene acceptors; organic solar cells; trap density
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The high trap density in organic solar cells is a major limitation for improving power conversion efficiencies. This study demonstrates that extending the donor core of nonfullerene acceptors from a heptacyclic unit to a nonacyclic unit efficiently reduces the trap density in the solar cells. This approach not only increases the mobility and inhibits charge-carrier recombination, but also achieves an impressive power conversion efficiency of 17.1% with a low nonradiative recombination energy loss.
The high trap density (generally 10(16) to 10(18) cm(-3)) in thin films of organic semiconductors is the primary reason for the inferior charge-carrier mobility and large nonradiative recombination energy loss (Delta E-nr) in organic solar cells (OSCs), limiting improvement in power conversion efficiencies (PCEs). In this study, the trap density in OSCs is efficiently reduced via extending the donor core of nonfullerene acceptors (NFAs) from a heptacyclic unit to a nonacyclic unit. TTPIC-4F with a nonacyclic unit has stronger intramolecular and intermolecular interactions, affording higher crystallinity in thin films relative to its counterpart BTPIC-4F. Thus, the D18:TTPIC-4F-based device achieves a lower trap density of 4.02 x 10(15) cm(-3), comparable to some typical high-performance inorganic/hybrid semiconductors, with higher mobility and inhibited charge-carrier recombination in devices. Therefore, the D18:TTPIC-4F-based OSC exhibits an impressive PCE of 17.1% with a low Delta E-nr of 0.208 eV, which is the best known value for A-D-A-type NFAs. Therefore, extending the donor core of NFAs is an efficient method for suppressing trap states in OSCs for high PCEs.
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