Proceedings of Materials for Sustainable Development Conference (MAT-SUS) (NFM22)
DOI: https://doi.org/10.29363/nanoge.nfm.2022.040
Publication date: 11th July 2022
Over the past few decades, organic solar cells (OSCs) have made a significant progress, showing their great potential for low-cost, flexible, lightweight, portable and large-area energy-harvesting devices. Although PC61BM and/or PC71BM structures have been exploited successfully in OSC devices, efforts to modify the fullerene structures for further improving the device performance have been tried recently because fullerene derivatives have the inflexibility in molecular design, difficult purification, poor morphological stability, and limited light absorption in the visible region, etc. In recent years, nonfullerene acceptors have emerged as an alternative candidate of n-type materials to overcome the difficulties of fullerene derivatives in tuning optical and electronic properties. The strong and easily adjustable absorption characteristics of nonfullerene acceptors have been considered as a strong point compared to fullerene-type structures, showing a photovoltaic efficiency over ~18%. To further optimize the OSCs for next generation green energy sources, several important points need to be considered carefully. Here we discuss the fundamental correlations between molecular structure, blend morphology and device performance in new nonfullerene acceptor-based OSCs. The photovoltaic properties of semi-transparent OSCs and sequential layer-by-layer OSCs will be also discussed in detail.