2024 article

Modification of the Electron-Deficient Core on Unfused-Ring Acceptors Enabling High Open-Circuit Voltage of Organic Solar Cells

Kim, H. K., Ng, H. M., Pan, M., Lai, J. Y. L., Li, X., Li, Y., … Yu, H. (2024, January 22). SOLAR RRL.

By: H. Kim*, H. Ng*, M. Pan*, J. Lai*, X. Li*, Y. Li*, K. Ding n, X. Lu* ...

author keywords: electron-deficient cores; high open-circuit voltage; unfused-ring acceptors; quinoxaline
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Added: February 12, 2024

Unfused‐ring acceptors with different electron‐deficient central units, dithieno[3,2‐f:2′,3′‐h]quinoxaline (KS40) and dithieno[3,2‐e:2′,3′‐g]‐2,1,3‐benzoxadiazole (KS41) are synthesized and characterized. When blended with PM6, KS40 with a weaker electron‐accepting quinoxaline exhibits a much higher open‐circuit voltage (VOC) of 0.945 V. As a result, the KS40‐based device achieves a power conversion efficiency (PCE) of 12.2%. PM6:KS41‐based devices, in contrast, afford improved charge mobilities as well as suppressed recombination behavior, which eventually leads to an improvement in the fill factor (72.4%). Consequently, the device is able to achieve a PCE of 11.6%.