Efficient organic solar cells with helical perylene diimide electron acceptors

Yu Zhong; M. Tuan Trinh; Rongsheng Chen; Wei Wang; Petr P. Khlyabich; Bharat Kumar; Qizhi Xu; Chang Yong Nam; Matthew Y. Sfeir; Charles Black; Michael L. Steigerwald; Yueh Lin Loo; Shengxiong Xiao; Fay Ng; X. Y. Zhu; Colin Nuckolls

doi:10.1021/ja5092613

Efficient organic solar cells with helical perylene diimide electron acceptors

Yu Zhong
, M. Tuan Trinh
, Rongsheng Chen
, Wei Wang
, Petr P. Khlyabich
, Bharat Kumar
, Qizhi Xu
, Chang Yong Nam
, Matthew Y. Sfeir
, Charles Black
, Michael L. Steigerwald
, Yueh Lin Loo
, Shengxiong Xiao
, Fay Ng
, X. Y. Zhu
, Colin Nuckolls

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Abstract

We report an efficiency of 6.1% for a solution-processed non-fullerene solar cell using a helical perylene diimide (PDI) dimer as the electron acceptor. Femtosecond transient absorption spectroscopy revealed both electron and hole transfer processes at the donor-acceptor interfaces, indicating that charge carriers are created from photogenerated excitons in both the electron donor and acceptor phases. Light-intensity-dependent current-voltage measurements suggested different recombination rates under short-circuit and open-circuit conditions.

Original language	English (US)
Pages (from-to)	15215-15221
Number of pages	7
Journal	Journal of the American Chemical Society
Volume	136
Issue number	43
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1021/ja5092613
State	Published - Oct 29 2014

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General Chemistry
Biochemistry
Colloid and Surface Chemistry

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Zhong, Y., Trinh, M. T., Chen, R., Wang, W., Khlyabich, P. P., Kumar, B., Xu, Q., Nam, C. Y., Sfeir, M. Y., Black, C., Steigerwald, M. L., Loo, Y. L., Xiao, S., Ng, F., Zhu, X. Y., & Nuckolls, C. (2014). Efficient organic solar cells with helical perylene diimide electron acceptors. Journal of the American Chemical Society, 136(43), 15215-15221. https://doi.org/10.1021/ja5092613

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