Recent Progress in Organic Solar Cells: A Review on Materials from Acceptor to Donor

Overview

Journal Molecules

Publisher MDPI

Specialty Biology

Date 2022 Mar 26

PMID 35335164

Authors

Yang Li

Wei Huang

Dejiang Zhao

Lu Wang

Zhiqiang Jiao

Qingyu Huang

Peng Wang

Mengna Sun

Guangcai Yuan

Affiliations

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Abstract

In the last few decades, organic solar cells (OSCs) have drawn broad interest owing to their advantages such as being low cost, flexible, semitransparent, non-toxic, and ideal for roll-to-roll large-scale processing. Significant advances have been made in the field of OSCs containing high-performance active layer materials, electrodes, and interlayers, as well as novel device structures. Particularly, the innovation of active layer materials, including novel acceptors and donors, has contributed significantly to the power conversion efficiency (PCE) improvement in OSCs. In this review, high-performance acceptors, containing fullerene derivatives, small molecular, and polymeric non-fullerene acceptors (NFAs), are discussed in detail. Meanwhile, highly efficient donor materials designed for fullerene- and NFA-based OSCs are also presented. Additionally, motivated by the incessant developments of donor and acceptor materials, recent advances in the field of ternary and tandem OSCs are reviewed as well.

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