Journal
SOLAR RRL
Volume 2, Issue 10, Pages -Publisher
WILEY-V C H VERLAG GMBH
DOI: 10.1002/solr.201800120
Keywords
non-fullerene acceptors; organic photovoltaics; polymer solar cells; small molecular acceptors; wide-bandgap acceptors
Funding
- National Key Basic Research Program of China (973 Program) [2014CB648300, 2017YFB0404501, 2015CB932203]
- National Natural Science Foundation of China [21674050, 21422402, 61704077]
- Natural Science Foundation of Jiangsu Province [BK20171007, BK20140060]
- Leading Talent of Technological Innovation of National Ten-Thousands Talents Program of China
- Excellent Scientific and Technological Innovative Teams of Jiangsu Higher Education Institutions [TJ217038]
- China Postdoctoral Science Foundation [2016M601784, 2017T100358]
- Postdoctoral Science Foundation of Jiangsu Province [1701135B]
- Synergetic Innovation Center for Organic Electronics and Information Displays
- Priority Academic Program Development of Jiangsu Higher Education Institutions (PAPD)
- 333 Project of Jiangsu Province [BRA2017402]
- Key Laboratory for Organic Electronics and Information Displays
- King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST)
- NUPT 1311 Project
- [NY217169]
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Narrow-bandgap small molecular acceptors (SMAs) with absorption extending into the near-infrared spectral region such as ITIC derivatives are widely investigated, while the development of their wide-bandgap counterparts remains largely unexplored. Wide-bandgap non-fullerene acceptors (NFAs) are highly desirable and beneficial for constructing efficient device layouts such as ternary blend and tandem solar cells that require multiple light-harvesting materials with different regions of absorption. In this contribution, the design and synthesis of two wide-bandgap SMAs (IDT-TBA and IDDT-TBA), consisting of a weak electron-withdrawing moiety (1,3-diethyl-2-thiobarbituric acid, TBA) is presented. Compared to ITIC, this molecular design strategy results in energetically down-shifted HOMO levels and hence much enlarged bandgaps of 1.91eV for IDT-TBA and 1.78eV for IDDT-TBA, respectively. Further photovoltaic performance evaluation demonstrates power conversion efficiencies (PCEs) of 6.5% for IDT-TBA and 7.5% for IDDT-TBA, respectively, when using PBDB-T as the electron donor polymer. In addition, time-delayed collection field (TDCF) experiments suggest that both IDT-TBA and IDDT-TBA based cells exhibit field-independent charge generation with external charge generation efficiencies exceeding 90%, implying negligible geminate recombination losses. The results demonstrate that TBA units are promising and attractive building blocks as weak electron-withdrawing acceptors to construct wide-bandgap high-efficiency SMAs for efficient organic photovoltaic devices.
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