A high dielectric constant non-fullerene acceptor for efficient bulk-heterojunction organic solar cells

Xi Liu, Boming Xie, Chunhui Duan, Zhaojing Wang, Baobing Fan, Kai Zhang, Baojun Lin, Fallon J. M. Colberts, Wei Ma, René A. J. Janssen,

Journal of Materials Chemistry A · 2017 · 422 citations · 44 references

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Abstract

A non-fullerene acceptor with a high relative dielectric constant (<italic>ε</italic><sub>r</sub>) over 9 is developed. It offers an efficiency of 8.5%, which is the best result for organic solar cells employing high <italic>ε</italic><sub>r</sub> materials. Further research should focus on morphology optimization to make high <italic>ε</italic><sub>r</sub> practically useful in devices.

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