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Energy Disorder Suppression, Charge Transport Channel Establishment by Integrating Four‐Arm Donor Molecule for High‐Performance Organic Solar Cells

Wentao Miao, Yirui Liu, Yao Wu, Junhong Liang, Jingyi Xiong, Tianyu Hu, Yurong He, Liangliang Chen, Juan Shan, Xunchang Wang, Renqiang Yang

Advanced Functional Materials· Volume 35· Issue 32

Abstract

Abstract Organic solar cells (OSCs) typically exhibit large energy disorders due to the complicated blend morphology, which is one of the important factors in limiting the improvement of power conversion efficiencies (PCEs). Herein, two new cross‐shaped donor molecules, BTCl‐4R and BT‐4R, featured with central benzodithiophene (BDT) cores flanked with four π‐bridges and hexylrhodanine end groups are developed, which are introduced into OSCs as a third component to optimize the packing behaviors and reduce energy disorder. By blending with the classical PM6:L8‐BO system, the outstanding PCE of 20.03% with a low energy disorder of 32 meV is achieved, as higher packing order lowers the trap density and inter‐connected morphology facilitates the establishment of more charge transport channels. This study demonstrates the significant potential of multi‐arm donor molecules in constructing high‐performance OSCs.
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OpenAlex topics: Organic Electronics and Photovoltaics · Conducting polymers and applications · Semiconductor materials and interfaces

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Affiliations

Key Laboratory of Flexible Optoelectronic Materials and Technology (Ministry of Education) School of Optoelectronic Materials & Technology Jianghan University Wuhan 430056 China

School of Material Science and Engineering Wuhan Institute of Technology Wuhan 430073 China

Funding

National Natural Science Foundation of China · China Postdoctoral Science Foundation

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