Proceedings of 13th Conference on Hybrid and Organic Photovoltaics (HOPV21)
Publication date: 11th May 2021
Organic solar cell (OSC) is a very promising photovoltaic technology. Over the past decades, the power conversion efficiencies (PCEs) of OSCs have been promoted from about 1% to currently over 18%. The development of new organic photovoltaic materials, including donor, acceptor and interlayer material, contributed greatly to the rapid increase of PCEs. In the past a few years, we developed many polymer donors based on benzothiophene (BDT) units and applied them to fabricate the PSC devices. For instance, we reported a polymer donor named PBDB-T in 2013 and then modified its chemical structure to obtain a polymer named PBDB-TF in 2015. These two polymers exhibit outstanding photovoltaic properties when blending with fullerene and non-fullerene acceptors. Very recently, the researchers in the field and our team employed PBDB-TF to blend with the newly developed acceptor and realized over 18% efficiencies. In this presentation, some general and efficient molecular design strategies related to this two polymer donors will be summarized and introduced. What is more, some of our recent progress including the OSCs with over 19% efficiencies and new considerations for interpreting the low driving force in the devices will also be briefly introduced.