Near-infrared absorbing acceptor with suppressed triplet exciton generation enabling high performance tandem organic solar cells

Zhenrong Jia; Qing Ma; Zeng Chen; Lei Meng; Nakul Jain; Indunil Angunawela; Shucheng Qin; Xiaolei Kong; Xiaojun Li; Yang (Michael) Yang; Haiming Zhu; Harald Ade; Feng Gao; Yongfang Li

doi:10.1038/s41467-023-36917-y

Nature Communications (Mar 2023)

Near-infrared absorbing acceptor with suppressed triplet exciton generation enabling high performance tandem organic solar cells

Zhenrong Jia,
Qing Ma,
Zeng Chen,
Lei Meng,
Nakul Jain,
Indunil Angunawela,
Shucheng Qin,
Xiaolei Kong,
Xiaojun Li,
Yang (Michael) Yang,
Haiming Zhu,
Harald Ade,
Feng Gao,
Yongfang Li

Affiliations

Zhenrong Jia: Beijing National Laboratory for Molecular Sciences, CAS Key Laboratory of Organic Solids, Institute of Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences
Qing Ma: Beijing National Laboratory for Molecular Sciences, CAS Key Laboratory of Organic Solids, Institute of Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences
Zeng Chen: State Key Laboratory of Modern Optical Instrumentation, Key Laboratory of Excited State Materials of Zhejiang Province, Department of Chemistry, Zhejiang University
Lei Meng: Beijing National Laboratory for Molecular Sciences, CAS Key Laboratory of Organic Solids, Institute of Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences
Nakul Jain: Department of Physics, Chemistry, and Biology (IFM), Linköping University
Indunil Angunawela: Department of Physics and Organic and Carbon Electronics Laboratories (ORaCEL), North Carolina State University
Shucheng Qin: Beijing National Laboratory for Molecular Sciences, CAS Key Laboratory of Organic Solids, Institute of Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences
Xiaolei Kong: Beijing National Laboratory for Molecular Sciences, CAS Key Laboratory of Organic Solids, Institute of Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences
Xiaojun Li: Beijing National Laboratory for Molecular Sciences, CAS Key Laboratory of Organic Solids, Institute of Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences
Yang (Michael) Yang: State Key Laboratory of Modern Optical Instrumentation, College of Optical Science and Engineering, Zhejiang University
Haiming Zhu: State Key Laboratory of Modern Optical Instrumentation, Key Laboratory of Excited State Materials of Zhejiang Province, Department of Chemistry, Zhejiang University
Harald Ade: Department of Physics and Organic and Carbon Electronics Laboratories (ORaCEL), North Carolina State University
Feng Gao: Department of Physics, Chemistry, and Biology (IFM), Linköping University
Yongfang Li: Beijing National Laboratory for Molecular Sciences, CAS Key Laboratory of Organic Solids, Institute of Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-023-36917-y
Journal volume & issue: Vol. 14, no. 1
pp. 1 – 11

Abstract

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Reducing energy loss of sub-cells is critical for high performance tandem organic solar cells. Here, the authors design and synthesize an ultra-narrow bandgap acceptor through replacement of terminal thiophene by selenophene in the central fused ring, achieving efficiency of 19% for tandem cells.

Published in Nature Communications

ISSN: 2041-1723 (Online)
Publisher: Nature Portfolio
Country of publisher: United Kingdom
LCC subjects: Science
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