A high performance three-dimensional thiophene-annulated perylene dye as an acceptor for organic solar cells

Wei Fan; Ningning Liang; Dong Meng; Jiajing Feng; Yan Li; Jianhui Hou; Zhaohui Wang

doi:10.1039/c6cc05810h

A high performance three-dimensional thiophene-annulated perylene dye as an acceptor for organic solar cells

Chem Commun (Camb). 2016 Sep 20;52(77):11500-11503. doi: 10.1039/c6cc05810h.

Authors

Wei Fan¹, Ningning Liang¹, Dong Meng¹, Jiajing Feng¹, Yan Li², Jianhui Hou², Zhaohui Wang²

Affiliations

¹ Beijing National Laboratory for Molecular Science, Institute of Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100190, China. yanli@iccas.ac.cn and University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China.
² Beijing National Laboratory for Molecular Science, Institute of Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100190, China. yanli@iccas.ac.cn.

PMID: 27709212
DOI: 10.1039/c6cc05810h

Abstract

A high performance three-dimensional (3D) thiophene-annulated perylene dye, namely tetra-PBI-S, was designed and synthesized. The appropriate LUMO level, balanced carrier mobilities and favourable phase separation make tetra-PBI-S based solar cells show a much higher power conversion efficiency (PCE) of 6.2% than tetra-PBI based solar cells with a PCE of 3.6%.