Recent progress in non-fused ring electron acceptors for high performance organic solar cells

Abstract

The recent progress in non-fused ring electron acceptor-based organic solar cells has been reviewed from the perspective of material design strategies.

3D acceptors with multiple A–D–A architectures for highly efficient organic solar cells

“…38,39 Considering the crucial role of morphological stability in the stability of the final device, the excellent stability of multidimensional NFAs based OSCs may partially originate from their potentially robust 3D packing network formed not only by the strong intermolecular p-p stacking but also by the weak noncovalent interactions. 26,27,40…”

Advances in organic photovoltaic cells: a comprehensive review of materials, technologies, and performance

“…Recent literature on the OPV cell technology corroborates the efficiency rates reported by NREL. For example, recent review studies conducted by Li Y. et al 158 and H. Gao et al 159 reported that the latest developments in OPV cells have achieved a PCE% of up to 18.6% and an FF% of approximately 80%. These findings are consistent with the data presented in NREL's report.…”

Harnessing the Structure‐Performance Relationships in Designing Non‐Fused Ring Acceptors for Organic Solar Cells

“…Currently, the PCEs of devices based on NFRAs have reached in the range of 15–16 %, [66–68] and approaching the values attained by A‐D‐A type A7‐based FRAs. Although the PCE of the NFRA‐based OSCs is increasing rapidly, compared with the performance of FRAs, the NFRAs still have a large scope for development and were recently reviewed under different perspectives [69–73] …”