Nature Communications (Dec 2016)

11.4% Efficiency non-fullerene polymer solar cells with trialkylsilyl substituted 2D-conjugated polymer as donor

  • Haijun Bin,
  • Liang Gao,
  • Zhi-Guo Zhang,
  • Yankang Yang,
  • Yindong Zhang,
  • Chunfeng Zhang,
  • Shanshan Chen,
  • Lingwei Xue,
  • Changduk Yang,
  • Min Xiao,
  • Yongfang Li

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms13651
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 7, no. 1
pp. 1 – 11

Abstract

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In organic photovoltaics, non-fullerene acceptors relax matching rules and allow for the development of new donor polymers. Here, Bin et al. design a donor polymer and obtain high photoconversion efficiencies despite the low energy offset for hole transfer between the acceptor and the donor.