Efficient Organic Solar Cells with Non-Fullerene Acceptors

Shuixing Li; Wenqing Liu; Chang-Zhi Li; Minmin Shi; Hongzheng Chen

doi:10.1002/smll.201701120

Efficient Organic Solar Cells with Non-Fullerene Acceptors

Small. 2017 Oct;13(37). doi: 10.1002/smll.201701120. Epub 2017 Jul 24.

Authors

Shuixing Li¹, Wenqing Liu¹, Chang-Zhi Li¹, Minmin Shi¹, Hongzheng Chen¹

Affiliation

¹ State Key Laboratory of Silicon Materials, MOE Key Laboratory of Macromolecular Synthesis and Functionalization, Department of Polymer Science and Engineering, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, 310027, P. R. China.

PMID: 28737255
DOI: 10.1002/smll.201701120

Abstract

Fullerene-free OSCs employing n-type small molecules or polymers as the acceptors have recently experienced a rapid rise with efficiencies exceeding 12%. Owing to the good optoelectronic and morphological tunabilities, non-fullerene acceptors exhibit great potential for realizing high-performance and practical OSCs. In this Review, recent exciting progress made in developing highly efficient non-fullerene acceptors is summarized, mainly correlating factors like absorption, energy loss and morphology of new materials to their correspondent photovoltaic performance.

Keywords: absorption; energy loss; morphology; non-fullerene acceptors; organic solar cells.

Publication types

Review
Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't