Citation: Pengyu Zhang, Zhiyang Zhang, Heng Sun, Jie Li, Yi Chen, Jiang Wang, Chuanlang Zhan. Reducing the voltage loss of Y-series acceptor based organic solar cells via ternary/quaternary strategies[J]. Chinese Chemical Letters, ;2024, 35(2): 108802. doi: 10.1016/j.cclet.2023.108802 shu

Reducing the voltage loss of Y-series acceptor based organic solar cells via ternary/quaternary strategies

Key Laboratory of Advanced Materials Chemistry and Devices (AMC&DLab) of the Department of Education of Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, Inner Mongolia Key Laboratory of Green Catalysis, College of Chemistry and Environment Science, Inner Mongolia Normal University, Huhehot 010022, China

wangjiang@imnu.edu.cn

clzhan@imnu.edu.cn

Received Date: 18 April 2023
Revised Date: 10 July 2023
Accepted Date: 11 July 2023
Available Online: 14 July 2023

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In recent years, with the emergence of non-fullerene fused-ring acceptors, power conversion efficiencies (PCEs) of organic solar cells (OSCs) have exceeded 19%. However, compared to inorganic or perovskite photovoltaic cells, a higher voltage loss has become one of the key factors limiting further improvement in the PCEs of OSCs. The ternary/quaternary strategy has been identified as a feasible and effective way to obtain high-efficiency OSCs. In this review, a brief outline is given of the key roles that guest materials played in reducing voltage losses in solar cell devices and a brief look at the future material design and the design of ternary/quaternary systems.
- Organic solar cell,
- Ternary/quaternary strategy,
- Open-circuit voltage,
- Voltage loss,
- Non-radiative recombination loss
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