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Material insights and challenges for non-fullerene organic solar cells based on small molecular acceptors

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  • Jianquan Zhang

    (Clear Water Bay)

  • Huei Shuan Tan

    (EFlexPV Limited, Jinxiu Science Park)

  • Xugang Guo

    (South University of Science and Technology of China)

  • Antonio Facchetti

    (Northwestern University)

  • He Yan

    (Clear Water Bay)

Abstract

The field of non-fullerene organic solar cells has experienced rapid development during the past few years, mainly driven by the development of novel non-fullerene acceptors and matching donor semiconductors. However, organic solar cell material development has progressed via a trial-and-error approach with limited understanding of the materials’ structure–property relationships and the underlying device physics of non-fullerene devices. In addition, the availability of hundreds of donor and acceptor semiconductors creates an extremely large pool of possible donor–acceptor combinations, which poses a daunting challenge for rational material screening and matching. This Review describes several important conceptual aspects of the emerging non-fullerene devices by highlighting key contributions that provided fundamental insights regarding rational material design, donor–acceptor pair matching, blend morphology control and the reduced voltage losses in non-fullerene organic solar cells. We also discuss the key challenges that need to be addressed to develop more-efficient non-fullerene organic solar cells.

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  • Jianquan Zhang & Huei Shuan Tan & Xugang Guo & Antonio Facchetti & He Yan, 2018. "Material insights and challenges for non-fullerene organic solar cells based on small molecular acceptors," Nature Energy, Nature, vol. 3(9), pages 720-731, September.
    • Handle: RePEc:nat:natene:v:3:y:2018:i:9:d:10.1038_s41560-018-0181-5
    DOI: 10.1038/s41560-018-0181-5
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